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.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.
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.
Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less.
Beauty surrounds us.
Be relentless in your looking, because you are the one you seek.
What you're seeking is seeking you.
Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.
No better love than love with no object
Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another
Because the Beloved wants to know, unseen things become manifest. Hiding is the hidden purpose of creation.
A Breath of love can take you all the way to infinity