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
Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity.
Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting.
Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.
Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.
O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.
Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.
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?
Dance when you're perfectly free.
I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.
Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!
Get yourself out of the way, and let Joy have more space.
If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.
Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul.
If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.