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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
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
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.
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.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
