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
Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.
When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.
There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.
O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.
I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.
You know what love is? It is all kindness, generosity.
Speak with the language of love.
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky
The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world...
I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.
The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one.
Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know.