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
If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.
Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul.
If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.
Get yourself out of the way, and let Joy have more space.
Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!
Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.
My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be....
I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.
The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.
Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain.
Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one.
A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.
What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.
Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.