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
When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.
Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.
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.
Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.
Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.
We are born of love. Love is our mother.
No more holding back. Be reckless. Tell your Love to everybody.
A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.
Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.
Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less.