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
They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.
Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?
Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him
Come to the Root of the Root of your Self
Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?
This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.
Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.
We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.
All because of love when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal
Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.
There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it.
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.