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
There is a window between heart and heart: They are never separate like two bodies. Two lamps may not be united in their form - But their light merges into each other.
Whatever purifies you is the correct road.
Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.
Where you are, whatever your condition is; Always try to be a lover.
Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.
If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self.
If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.
Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?
Dance when you're perfectly free.
Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?
Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.
O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.
Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.
The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?