Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Date of Birth | : | 30 Sep, 1207 |
Date of Death | : | 17 Dec, 1273 |
Place of Birth | : | Balkh, Afghanistan |
Profession | : | Poet |
Nationality | : | Afghanistan |
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi which means Our Master, is one of the Islamic world's greatest poets. He is usually known in the English-speaking world as Rumi. He is a Sufi mystic, philosopher and lover of humanity. His followers began a school of mysticism to encourage and celebrate his teachings—the Sufi branch known to many Westerners as the 'Whirling Dervishes', whose proper name is the Mevlevi order.
Background and early life
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi was born in 1207 in Balkh, Persia in what is today Afghanistan. His father, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Valad, was a famous religious teacher and mystic who had a position at the university in Balkh. When Mongols invaded Persia, Rumi left Persia for Konya, which was then under the Persian empire. By the time he made it to Konya his mother had died, and he was married with a son.
Quotes
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
What you seek is seeking you.
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
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.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.