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
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
Don't look at your form, however ugly or beautiful. Look at love and at the aim of your quest...O you whose lips are parched, keep looking for water. Those parched lips are proof that eventually you will reach the source.
Look at Love... how it tangles with the one fallen in love .
Look at your heart and tongue, one feels but deaf and dumb, the other speaks in words and signs.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you.
I come to YOU without ME, come to ME without YOU.
All the particles of the World are in Love and looking for Lovers.
Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.
Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.
Each moment contains a hundred messages from God.
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.
Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.