Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī popularly known as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
Iranians, Turks, Afghans, Tajiks, and other Central Asian Muslims as well as the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy.
Rumi’s importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic borders. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world’s languages and transposed into various formats. In 2007, he was described as the “most popular poet in America.”
Rumi’s works are written in Persian and his Mathnawi remains one of the purest literary glories of Persia.
Read below the Famous Quotes of Rumi.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
What you seek is seeking you.
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.
If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,are your own nature reflected in them.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft, wasn’t it first merely a thought and a quest?
Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
To Love is to reach God.
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.
The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did about the future.
Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Knock, And He’ll open the door
Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.
