Rumi
Rumi
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Mawlānā/Mevlânâ, Mevlevî/Mawlawī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 September 1207
Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
Stop learning. Start knowing
You are the mirror of divine beauty.
Dance from here to the other world-and don't stop.
My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo, its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompases every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.
Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.
Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.
I am merely a guest, born in this world to know the secrets that lie beyond it.
Hold on to the reins of Love and don’t be afraid. Hold on to the real behind the false and don’t be afraid.
You don't see your own face, your own beauty Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.......... .
Love cannot be learned or taught. Love comes as Grace.
The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!