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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1</span> <span><i>Rumi Daylight</i> (1990)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rumi_Daylight_(1990)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Jewels_of_Remembrance_(1996)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Jewels_of_Remembrance_(1996)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2</span> <span><i> Jewels of Remembrance</i> (1996)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Jewels_of_Remembrance_(1996)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Essential_Sufism_(1997)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Essential_Sufism_(1997)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3</span> <span><i>Essential Sufism</i> (1997)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Essential_Sufism_(1997)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hush_Don't_Say_Anything_to_God_(1999)" 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class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span><i>Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi</i> (2000)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hush,_Don't_Say_Anything_to_God:_Passionate_Poems_of_Rumi_(2000)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_Quatrains_of_Rumi_(2008)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_Quatrains_of_Rumi_(2008)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7</span> <span><i>The Quatrains of Rumi</i> (2008)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_Quatrains_of_Rumi_(2008)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Disputed" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Disputed"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Disputed</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Disputed-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%80" title="ৰুমী – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="ৰুমী" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/M%C3%B6vlana_C%C9%99lal%C9%99ddin_Rumi" title="Mövlana Cəlaləddin Rumi – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Mövlana Cəlaləddin Rumi" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bjn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bjn.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jalaluddin_Rumi" title="Jalaluddin Rumi – Banjar" lang="bjn" hreflang="bjn" data-title="Jalaluddin Rumi" data-language-autonym="Banjar" data-language-local-name="Banjar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Banjar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF" title="জালালুদ্দিন রুমি – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="জালালুদ্দিন রুমি" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mevlana_D%C5%BEelaludin_Rumi" title="Mevlana Dželaludin Rumi – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Mevlana Dželaludin Rumi" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yalal_ad-Din_Muhammad_Rumi" title="Yalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Yalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C" title="مولوی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مولوی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D7%92%27%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%90-%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99" title="ג'לאל א-דין רומי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ג'לאל א-דין רומי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rumi" title="Rumi – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Rumi" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dzsal%C3%A1l_ad-D%C3%ADn_R%C3%BAm%C3%AD" title="Dzsalál ad-Dín Rúmí – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Dzsalál ad-Dín Rúmí" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%AC_%D5%A1%D5%A4_%D4%B4%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D5%8C%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B4%D5%AB" title="Ջալալ ադ Դին Ռումի – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ջալալ ադ Դին Ռումի" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jalaluddin_Rumi" title="Jalaluddin Rumi – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Jalaluddin Rumi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gialal_al-Din_Rumi" title="Gialal al-Din Rumi – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Gialal al-Din Rumi" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rumi" title="Rumi – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Rumi" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9C%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%80%E0%B5%BB_%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BF" title="ജലാലുദീൻ റൂമി – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ജലാലുദീൻ റൂമി" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rumi" title="Rumi – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Rumi" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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I never <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> what I'm going to say.<br />I don't plan it.<br />When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely <a href="/wiki/Speak" class="mw-redirect" title="Speak">speak</a> at all.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Allahumahabbah.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Allahumahabbah.svg/220px-Allahumahabbah.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="111" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Allahumahabbah.svg/330px-Allahumahabbah.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Allahumahabbah.svg/440px-Allahumahabbah.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="306" data-file-height="155" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> is the ark appointed for the <a href="/wiki/Righteous" class="mw-redirect" title="Righteous">righteous</a>, <br /> Which annuls the <a href="/wiki/Danger" title="Danger">danger</a> and provides a way of <a href="/wiki/Escape" title="Escape">escape</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi" class="extiw" title="w:Rumi">Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi</a></b> (جلال‌الدین محمد رومی) <b>Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi</b> (جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى)‎ (<a href="/wiki/30_September" class="mw-redirect" title="30 September">30 September</a> <a href="/wiki/1207" class="mw-disambig" title="1207">1207</a> – <a href="/wiki/17_December" class="mw-redirect" title="17 December">17 December</a> <a href="/wiki/1273" class="mw-disambig" title="1273">1273</a>) was an <a href="/wiki/Afghan" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan">Afghan</a> <a href="/wiki/Philosopher" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosopher">philosopher</a>, <a href="/wiki/Theologian" class="mw-redirect" title="Theologian">theologian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poet" class="mw-redirect" title="Poet">poet</a>, teacher, and founder of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mevlevi" class="extiw" title="w:Mevlevi">Mevlevi</a> (or Mawlawi) order of <a href="/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism">Sufism</a>; also known as <b>Mevlana</b> (Our Guide), <b>Jalaluddin Rumi</b>, or simply <b>Rumi</b>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%C4%B0zmir_Buca_Mevlana_heykeli_ve_mesire_alan%C4%B1_5.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/%C4%B0zmir_Buca_Mevlana_heykeli_ve_mesire_alan%C4%B1_5.jpg/220px-%C4%B0zmir_Buca_Mevlana_heykeli_ve_mesire_alan%C4%B1_5.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/%C4%B0zmir_Buca_Mevlana_heykeli_ve_mesire_alan%C4%B1_5.jpg/330px-%C4%B0zmir_Buca_Mevlana_heykeli_ve_mesire_alan%C4%B1_5.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/%C4%B0zmir_Buca_Mevlana_heykeli_ve_mesire_alan%C4%B1_5.jpg/440px-%C4%B0zmir_Buca_Mevlana_heykeli_ve_mesire_alan%C4%B1_5.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere <a href="/wiki/Opinion" title="Opinion">opinion</a>, bewilderment is <a href="/wiki/Intuition" title="Intuition">intuition</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Turkey.Konya001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Turkey.Konya001.jpg/220px-Turkey.Konya001.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Turkey.Konya001.jpg/330px-Turkey.Konya001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Turkey.Konya001.jpg/440px-Turkey.Konya001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="890" data-file-height="1191" /></a><figcaption>I <a href="/wiki/Died" class="mw-redirect" title="Died">died</a> as a mineral and became a <a href="/wiki/Plant" class="mw-redirect" title="Plant">plant</a>, I died as plant and rose to <a href="/wiki/Animal" class="mw-redirect" title="Animal">animal</a>, I died as animal and I was <a href="/wiki/Man" title="Man">Man</a>. Why should I <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a>? When was I less by dying?</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Whirling_Dervishes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Whirling_Dervishes.jpg/220px-Whirling_Dervishes.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Whirling_Dervishes.jpg/330px-Whirling_Dervishes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Whirling_Dervishes.jpg/440px-Whirling_Dervishes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>A leaf trembles. I tremble in the <a href="/wiki/Wind" title="Wind">wind</a>-<a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">beauty</a> like silk from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan" class="extiw" title="w:Turkestan">Turkestan</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dcp7323-Edirne-Eski_Camii_Allah.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Dcp7323-Edirne-Eski_Camii_Allah.jpg/220px-Dcp7323-Edirne-Eski_Camii_Allah.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Dcp7323-Edirne-Eski_Camii_Allah.jpg/330px-Dcp7323-Edirne-Eski_Camii_Allah.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Dcp7323-Edirne-Eski_Camii_Allah.jpg/440px-Dcp7323-Edirne-Eski_Camii_Allah.jpg 2x" data-file-width="592" data-file-height="896" /></a><figcaption>Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of <a href="/wiki/Despair" title="Despair">despair</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maitresse_du_feu.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Maitresse_du_feu.jpg/220px-Maitresse_du_feu.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Maitresse_du_feu.jpg/330px-Maitresse_du_feu.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Maitresse_du_feu.jpg/440px-Maitresse_du_feu.jpg 2x" data-file-width="752" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>Let the <a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">beauty</a> of what you <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> be what you do.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sunrise_in_Constanta,Romania.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Sunrise_in_Constanta%2CRomania.JPG/220px-Sunrise_in_Constanta%2CRomania.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Sunrise_in_Constanta%2CRomania.JPG/330px-Sunrise_in_Constanta%2CRomania.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Sunrise_in_Constanta%2CRomania.JPG/440px-Sunrise_in_Constanta%2CRomania.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption><p>This is how <a href="/wiki/Mansur_Al-Hallaj" title="Mansur Al-Hallaj">Hallaj</a> said, <i>I am <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a></i>, <br /> and told the <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>! </p><p> The ruby and the sunrise are one.</p></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%88_%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B8.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%88_%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B8.jpg/220px-%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%88_%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B8.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="297" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%88_%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B8.jpg/330px-%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%88_%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B8.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%88_%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B8.jpg 2x" data-file-width="356" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Let the <a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">beauty</a> of what you <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> be what you do.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wingedheart.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Wingedheart.svg/220px-Wingedheart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="228" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Wingedheart.svg/330px-Wingedheart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Wingedheart.svg/440px-Wingedheart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="343" data-file-height="356" /></a><figcaption>I want a <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a> which is split, part by part, because of the <a href="/wiki/Pain" title="Pain">pain</a> of separation from <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> is the ark appointed for the <a href="/wiki/Righteous" class="mw-redirect" title="Righteous">righteous</a>, <br /> Which annuls the <a href="/wiki/Danger" title="Danger">danger</a> and provides a way of escape. <br /> Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. <br /> Cleverness is mere <a href="/wiki/Opinion" title="Opinion">opinion</a>, bewilderment <a href="/wiki/Intuition" title="Intuition">intuition</a>.</b> <ul><li>The <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masnavi" class="extiw" title="w:Masnavi">Masnavi</a></i>, Book IV, Story II, as translated in <i>Masnavi I Ma'navi : The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí</i> (1898) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Henry_Whinfield" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Henry Whinfield">Edward Henry Whinfield</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Some <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hindoos</a> were exhibiting an <a href="/wiki/Elephant" class="mw-redirect" title="Elephant">elephant</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Dark" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark">dark</a> room, and many people collected to see it. But as the place was too dark to permit them to see the elephant, they all felt it with their <a href="/wiki/Hands" title="Hands">hands</a>, to gain an <a href="/wiki/Idea" class="mw-redirect" title="Idea">idea</a> of what it was like. One felt its trunk, and declared that the beast resembled a water-pipe; another felt its ear, and said it must be a large fan; another its leg, and thought it must be a pillar; another felt its back, and declared the beast must be like a great throne. <b>According to the part which each felt, he gave a different description of the animal.</b> One, as it were, called it "Dal" and another "Alif."<br />If you give a candle to everyone, their differences will be gone,<br /><b>Compare the sensual eye to the<br />hand of one that felt the elephant.<br />The <a href="/wiki/Eye" class="mw-redirect" title="Eye">eye</a> of outward sense is as the palm of a hand,<br />The whole of the object is not grasped in the palm.</b><br />The sea itself is one thing, the foam another;<br /><b>Neglect the foam, and regard the sea with your eyes.</b> <ul><li>The <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masnavi" class="extiw" title="w:Masnavi">Masnavi</a></i>, Book III, Story V, verses 1259–1270. Translation from <i>Masnavi I Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí</i> (1898) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Henry_Whinfield" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Henry Whinfield">Edward Henry Whinfield</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">Reason</a> is like an officer when the King appears</b>; <br /> The officer then loses his <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> and hides himself. <br /> <b>Reason is the <a href="/wiki/Shadow" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow">shadow</a> cast by <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>; God is the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sun</a>.</b> <ul><li>As translated in <i>Masnavi I Ma'navi : The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí</i> (1898) edited by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Henry_Whinfield" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Henry Whinfield">Edward Henry Whinfield</a> Book IV, Story IV : "<a href="/wiki/Bayazid_Bastami" title="Bayazid Bastami">Bayazid</a> and his impious sayings when beside himself"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Come to the orchard in Spring.</li></ul> <p>There is light and wine, and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers. If you do not come, these do not matter. If you do come, these do not matter. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" style="width:220px;" data-durationhint="18" data-mwtitle=""Come_to_the_orchard_in_spring"_by_Rumi.wav" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:%22Come_to_the_orchard_in_spring%22_by_Rumi.wav"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d1/%22Come_to_the_orchard_in_spring%22_by_Rumi.wav/%22Come_to_the_orchard_in_spring%22_by_Rumi.wav.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-transcodekey="ogg" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d1/%22Come_to_the_orchard_in_spring%22_by_Rumi.wav/%22Come_to_the_orchard_in_spring%22_by_Rumi.wav.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/%22Come_to_the_orchard_in_spring%22_by_Rumi.wav" type="audio/wav" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span><figcaption>Reading of Rumi's "Come to the orchard in spring"</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>This is what is <a href="/wiki/Signified" class="mw-redirect" title="Signified">signified</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a> <i>Anā l-Ḥaqq</i>, "I am <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>." <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">People</a> imagine that it is a presumptuous claim, whereas it is really a presumptuous claim to say <i>Ana 'l-'abd</i>, "I am the slave of God"; and <i>Anā l-Ḥaqq</i>, "I am God" is an expression of great <a href="/wiki/Humility" title="Humility">humility</a></b>. The man who says <i>Ana 'l-'abd</i>, "I am the servant of God" affirms two existences, his own and God's, but he that says <i>Anā l-Ḥaqq</i>, "I am God" has <a href="/wiki/Kenosis" title="Kenosis">made himself non-existent</a> and has given himself up and says "I am God", that is, <b>"I am naught, He is <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a>; there is no being but God's."</b> This is the extreme of humility and self-abasement. <ul><li>Commenting on the famous expression of <a href="/wiki/Mansur_Al-Hallaj" title="Mansur Al-Hallaj">Mansur al-Hallaj</a>, for which al-Hallaj was executed as a blasphemer, in <i>The Mathnawí of Jalálu'ddín Rúmí</i>, Vol. 4, part 7, edited by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (1940) p. 248</li> <li>Variant translation: People imagine that it is a presumptive claim, whereas it is really a presumptive claim to say "I am the slave of God"; and "I am God" is an expression of great humility. The man who says "I am the slave of God" affirms two existences, his own and God's, but he that says "I am God" has made himself non-existent and has given himself up and says "I am God", that is, <b>"I am naught, He is all; there is no being but God's."</b> This is the extreme of humility and self-abasement.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a>, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. <br /> Whoever has polished it more sees more — more unseen forms become manifest to him.</b> <ul><li>As quoted in <i>The Sufi Path of Love : The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi</i> (1983) by William C. Chittick, p. 162</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I died as a mineral and became a plant, <br />I died as plant and rose to animal, <br />I died as animal and I was Man. <br />Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? </b><br />Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar <br />With angels blest; but even from angelhood <br />I must pass on: all except <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> doth perish. <br /><b>When I have sacrificed my <a href="/wiki/Angel" class="mw-redirect" title="Angel">angel</a>-<a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a>, <br />I shall become what no mind e'er conceived. <br />Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence <br />Proclaims in organ tones, <i>To Him we shall return.</i></b> <ul><li>"I Died as a Mineral", as translated in <i>The Mystics of Islam</i> (1914) edited by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, p. 125</li> <li>Variant translation: Originally, you were clay. From being mineral, you became vegetable. From vegetable, you became animal, and from animal, man. During these periods man did not know where he was going, but he was being taken on a long journey nonetheless. And you have to go through a hundred different worlds yet. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Multimind</i> (1986) by Robert Ornstein</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Come, come, whoever you are.<br /> Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving — it doesn't matter, <br />Ours is not a caravan of <a href="/wiki/Despair" title="Despair">despair</a>. <br /> Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times, <br />Come, come again, come.</b> <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations</i> (1990) by Sy Safransky, p. 67</li> <li>Variant translations: <br /> <b>Come, come, whoever you are.<br /> Wanderer, idolator, worshipper of fire, come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, <br />Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair.</b> <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Muslim Narratives and the Discourse of English</i> (2004) by Amin Malak, p. 151</li></ul></li> <li>Come, come, whoever you are.<br /> Wanderer, worshipper, lover of living, it doesn't matter <br />Ours is not a caravan of despair. <br /> Come even if you have broken your vow a thousand times, <br />Come, yet again, come, come. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Rumi and His Sufi Path of Love</i> (2007) by M Fatih Citlak and Huseyin Bingul, p. 81</li></ul></li> <li>Come, come again, whoever you are, come! <br /> Heathen, fire worshipper or idolatrous, come! <br />Come even if you broke your penitence a hundred times, <br />Ours is the portal of hope, come as you are. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Turkey: A Primary Source Cultural Guide</i> (2004) by Martha Kneib</li> <li>This poem is wrongly considered to be Rumi's work, where it is actually from <a class="external autonumber" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab%C5%AB-Sa%27%C4%ABd_Abul-Khayr">[1]</a>Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr. The original poem in Farsi is</li> <li>باز آ باز آ هر آنچه هستی باز آ گر کافر و گبر و بت‌پرستی باز آ این درگه ما درگه نومیدی نیست صد بار اگر توبه شکستی باز آ<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://ganjoor.net/abusaeed/robaee-aa/sh1/">[2]</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say.</b> From an embryo, whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of more invisible game. <br /> <b>Think how it is to have a conversation with an embryo.</b> You might say, "The world outside is vast and intricate. There are wheatfields and mountain passes, and orchards in bloom. At night there are millions of galaxies, and in sunlight the beauty of friends dancing at a wedding." <br /> You ask the embryo why he, or she, stays cooped up in the dark with eyes closed. <b>Listen to the answer. <br /> <i>There is no "other world." I only know what I've experienced. You must be hallucinating.</i> </b> <ul><li>As quoted in <i>The Enlightened Mind</i> (1991), edited by Stephen Mitchell</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Our caravan leader is the pride of the world, Mustafa [Muhammad]</b> <ul><li>As quoted in <i>And Muhammad is his Messenger : The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety</i> (1985) by Annemarie Schimmel, p. 215</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.</b> <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Marry Your Muse : Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity</i> (1997) by Jan Phillips, p. 75</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world;<br />But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world.<br />If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me;<br />For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens. <ul><li>Divan 1740:1-3, as translated by Fatemeh Keshavarz in <i>Reading Mystical Lyric : The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi</i> (1998)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.</b> <ul><li>As quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/385/cu2.htm">"A feather on the breath of God" by Nur Elmessiri in <i>Al-Ahram Weekly Online</i> Issue No. 385 (9 - 15 July 1998)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desire overcomes his intellect is less than an animal. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>The Rumi Collection : An Anthology of Translations of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi</i> (2000) by Kabir Helminski</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.</b> <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Rumi Wisdom: Daily Teachings from the Great Sufi Master</i> (2000) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Freke" class="extiw" title="w:Timothy Freke">Timothy Freke</a></li> <li>Variant: The fault is in the blamer — Spirit sees nothing to criticize.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.</b> <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work</i> (2000) by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p>He says, "<b>There’s nothing left of <i>me</i>.</b><br /> I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise. <br /> Is it still a stone, or a world <br /> made of redness? It has no resistance <br /> to sunlight."</p><p> <b>This is how <a href="/wiki/Mansur_Al-Hallaj" title="Mansur Al-Hallaj">Hallaj</a> said, <i>I am God</i>, <br /> and told the truth!</b></p><p><b>The ruby and the sunrise are one.</b></p><p> Be courageous and discipline yourself. <br /> Completely become hearing and ear, and wear this sun-ruby as an earring.</p> <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Head and Heart : A Personal Exploration of Science and the Sacred</i> (2002) by Victor Mansfield</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.</b> <ul><li>As quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.mfethullahgulen.com/content/view/1820/49/">"Mevlana Jalal al-Din Rumi"</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fethullah_G%C3%BClen" class="extiw" title="w:Fethullah Gülen">Fethullah Gülen</a> in <i>The Fountain</i> #24 (July-September 2004)</li> <li>Variant translation: I want a heart which is split, chamber by chamber, by the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longings and desires to it.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The Sufi is hanging on to Muhammad, like Abu Bakr.</b> <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Rumi and Islam: Selections from His Stories, Poems, and Discourses — Annotated and Explained</i> (2004) by Ibrahim Gamard p. 171</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I am the servant of the <a href="/wiki/Qur%27an" class="mw-redirect" title="Qur'an">Qur'an</a> as long as I have life.</b> <br /> I am the dust on the path of [Muhammad], the Chosen one. <br /> If anyone quotes anything except this from my sayings, <br /> I am quit of him and outraged by these words</li> <li>As quoted in "Rumi and Self-Discovery" by Ibrahim Gamard, in <i>Islamica Magazine</i> Issue 15, (Summer 2005)</li></ul> <ul><li><b>You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?</b> <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing</i> (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 26</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whoever enters the Way without a guide <br /> will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey. <br />The Prophet said "In this way you have no more <br /> faithful companion than your works." <br /> How can these works and this earning in the way of righteousness <br /> be accomplished without a master, O father? Can you practice the meanest profession in the world <br /> without a master's guidance? <br /> Whoever undertakes a profession without a master <br /> becomes the laughingstock of city and town.<br /> <ul><li><i>Mathnavi</i> translated by William Chittick pp. 122-123 as quoted in Classical Islam and Naqshbandi Sufi Tradition by Muhammad Hisham Kabbani p. 153</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We have a way from this visible world to the Unseen, <br /> For we are the companions of Religions Messenger. <br /> We have a way from the house to the garden, <br /> we are the neighbor of the cypress and jasmine. <br /> Every day we come to the garden <br /> and see a hundred blossoms. <br /> In order to scatter them among the lovers, <br /> we will our robes to overflowing. Behold our words! <br /> They are the fragrance of those roses - <br /> we are the rosebush of certainty's rose garden. <ul><li><i>Divan</i> as quoted in Classical Islam and the Naqshbandi Sufi Tradition By Muhammad Hisham Kabbani p.195</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I have endowed everyone with a temperament of his own, given everyone an idiom of his own; so that what is praise for him is blame for thee, what is honey for him is poison for thee, what is light for him is fire for thee, what is rose for him is thorn for thee, what is good for him is evil for thee, what is beautiful for him is ugly for thee. In the people of Hindustan the idiom of Hindustan is praiseworthy; in the people of Sind, the idiom of Sind is praiseworthy. I do not see the outward and the speech; I see the inward and the state [of feeling]. For the heart is the substance and speech an accident. So, the accident is subservient, the substance is the [real] object. The religion of love stands apart from all religions. For lovers the [only] religion and creed is God. <ul><li>Rumi, quoted from Harsh Narain, Myths of Composite Culture and Equality of Religions (1990) p. 20-21 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/MythOfCompositeCultureHarshNarain">[3]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rumi_Daylight_(1990)"><span id="Rumi_Daylight_.281990.29"></span><i>Rumi Daylight</i> (1990)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Rumi Daylight (1990)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:OspreyNASA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/OspreyNASA.jpg/220px-OspreyNASA.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/OspreyNASA.jpg/330px-OspreyNASA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/OspreyNASA.jpg/440px-OspreyNASA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1146" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> turns you from one <a href="/wiki/Feeling" class="mw-redirect" title="Feeling">feeling</a> to another and <a href="/wiki/Teaches" class="mw-redirect" title="Teaches">teaches</a> by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to <a href="/wiki/Fly" class="mw-redirect" title="Fly">fly</a>, not one.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Meshed_ali_usnavy_(PD).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Meshed_ali_usnavy_%28PD%29.jpg/220px-Meshed_ali_usnavy_%28PD%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Meshed_ali_usnavy_%28PD%29.jpg/330px-Meshed_ali_usnavy_%28PD%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Meshed_ali_usnavy_%28PD%29.jpg/440px-Meshed_ali_usnavy_%28PD%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1843" data-file-height="1312" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Lion" class="mw-redirect" title="Lion">lion</a> who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor <a href="/wiki/Hero" class="mw-redirect" title="Hero">hero</a> compared to the lion who <a href="/wiki/Kenosis" title="Kenosis">overcomes himself</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Summer_Solstice_Sunrise_over_Stonehenge_2005.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Summer_Solstice_Sunrise_over_Stonehenge_2005.jpg/220px-Summer_Solstice_Sunrise_over_Stonehenge_2005.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Summer_Solstice_Sunrise_over_Stonehenge_2005.jpg/330px-Summer_Solstice_Sunrise_over_Stonehenge_2005.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Summer_Solstice_Sunrise_over_Stonehenge_2005.jpg/440px-Summer_Solstice_Sunrise_over_Stonehenge_2005.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1224" data-file-height="854" /></a><figcaption>Whoever gives <a href="/wiki/Reverence" title="Reverence">reverence</a> receives reverence.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sun_pillar_and_dog_-NOAA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Sun_pillar_and_dog_-NOAA.jpg/220px-Sun_pillar_and_dog_-NOAA.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Sun_pillar_and_dog_-NOAA.jpg/330px-Sun_pillar_and_dog_-NOAA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Sun_pillar_and_dog_-NOAA.jpg/440px-Sun_pillar_and_dog_-NOAA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1772" data-file-height="1148" /></a><figcaption>If you <a href="/wiki/Wish" class="mw-redirect" title="Wish">wish</a> to <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">shine</a> like <a href="/wiki/Day" title="Day">day</a>, burn up the <a href="/wiki/Night" title="Night">night</a> of <a href="/wiki/Self" title="Self">self</a>-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is <a href="/wiki/Everything" class="mw-redirect" title="Everything">everything</a>.</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><small><i>Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance</i> (1990) translations by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski</small></dd></dl> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> turns you from one <a href="/wiki/Feeling" class="mw-redirect" title="Feeling">feeling</a> to another and <a href="/wiki/Teaches" class="mw-redirect" title="Teaches">teaches</a> by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to <a href="/wiki/Fly" class="mw-redirect" title="Fly">fly</a>, not one.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace<br />to extract the silver from the dross. <br /> This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.</li></ul> <ul><li>Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Idol" class="mw-redirect" title="Idol">idol</a> of your <a href="/wiki/Self" title="Self">self</a> is the mother of all idols.</b><br />To regard the self as easy to subdue is a <a href="/wiki/Mistake" class="mw-redirect" title="Mistake">mistake</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>If you wish <a href="/wiki/Mercy" title="Mercy">mercy</a>, show mercy to the weak.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>If you dig a pit for others to fall into,<br />you will fall into it yourself.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,<br />are your own <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> reflected in them.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Lion" class="mw-redirect" title="Lion">lion</a> who breaks the enemy's ranks<br />is a minor hero<br />compared to <b>the lion who <a href="/wiki/Kenosis" title="Kenosis">overcomes himself</a></b>.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>Were there no men of <a href="/wiki/Vision" title="Vision">vision</a>,<br />all who are blind would be <a href="/wiki/Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="Dead">dead</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>If you are wholly perplexed and in straits,<br />have <a href="/wiki/Patience" title="Patience">patience</a>, for patience is the <a href="/wiki/Key" title="Key">key</a> to <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a>.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>If you are irritated by every rub,<br />how will your mirror be polished?</li></ul> <ul><li>Anyone in whom the troublemaking self has <a href="/wiki/Died" class="mw-redirect" title="Died">died</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sun</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cloud" class="mw-redirect" title="Cloud">cloud</a> obey.<br />If you wish to shine like day,<br />burn up the night of self-existence.<br /><b>Dissolve in the <a href="/wiki/The_All" title="The All">Being who is everything</a>.</b></li></ul> <ul><li><b>There is no worse <a href="/wiki/Sickness" class="mw-redirect" title="Sickness">sickness</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a>,<br />O you who are proud, than this <a href="/wiki/Pretense" class="mw-redirect" title="Pretense">pretense</a> of <a href="/wiki/Perfection" title="Perfection">perfection</a>.</b><br />The heart and eyes must bleed a lot<br />before self-complacency falls away.</li></ul> <ul><li>When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jewels_of_Remembrance_(1996)"><span id="Jewels_of_Remembrance_.281996.29"></span><i> Jewels of Remembrance</i> (1996)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumi&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Jewels of Remembrance (1996)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small> <i>Jewels of Remembrance : A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance : Containing 365 Selections from the Wisdom of Rumi</i> (1996) Translated by Camille and Kabir Helminski</small></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg/220px-Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg/330px-Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg/440px-Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1919" data-file-height="1008" /></a><figcaption>Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?<br /> What do you know of Love except the name? <br /> Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,<br /> and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Love_heart.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Love_heart.jpg/220px-Love_heart.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Love_heart.jpg/330px-Love_heart.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Love_heart.jpg/440px-Love_heart.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1261" /></a><figcaption>Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rose_feucht.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Rose_feucht.jpg/220px-Rose_feucht.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Rose_feucht.jpg/330px-Rose_feucht.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Rose_feucht.jpg/440px-Rose_feucht.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1176" data-file-height="882" /></a><figcaption>That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?<br /> What do you know of Love except the name?<br /> Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,<br /> and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.<br /> Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:<br /> it has no interest in a disloyal companion.</b><br /> The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:<br /> that root must be cherished with all one's might.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: <br /> every success depends upon focusing the heart.</b> <ul><li>III, 2302-5</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Even though you're not equipped,<br />keep searching:<br />equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord. <ul><li>III, 1445-49</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon,<br />don't smile contemptuously upon its quest.<br /><b>Everything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft,<br />wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?</b> <ul><li>III, 1445-49</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When you see anyone complaining<br />of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper,<br />know that the complainant is bad-tempered,<br />forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person,<br />because <b>he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing<br />towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.</b> <ul><li>IV, 771-4</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>That which God said to the rose,<br />and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty,<br />He said to my heart,<br />and made it a hundred times more beautiful. <ul><li>III, 4129</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Many have been led astray by the Qur'an:<br />by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well.<br />There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man,<br />for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.</b> <ul><li>III, 4210-11</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Essential_Sufism_(1997)"><span id="Essential_Sufism_.281997.29"></span><i>Essential Sufism</i> (1997)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Essential Sufism (1997)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Humanitarian_aid_OCPA-2005-10-28-090517a.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Humanitarian_aid_OCPA-2005-10-28-090517a.jpg/220px-Humanitarian_aid_OCPA-2005-10-28-090517a.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Humanitarian_aid_OCPA-2005-10-28-090517a.jpg/330px-Humanitarian_aid_OCPA-2005-10-28-090517a.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Humanitarian_aid_OCPA-2005-10-28-090517a.jpg/440px-Humanitarian_aid_OCPA-2005-10-28-090517a.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2344" data-file-height="1701" /></a><figcaption>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.</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><small><i>Essential Sufism</i> (1997) by James Fadiman and Robert Frager</small></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>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.</b></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The lower self does not want anyone to receive anything from anybody else, and if it is aware of something receiving a special boon, it seeks to destroy it.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hush_Don't_Say_Anything_to_God_(1999)"><span id="Hush_Don.27t_Say_Anything_to_God_.281999.29"></span><i>Hush Don't Say Anything to God</i> (1999)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumi&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small> <i>Hush Don't Say Anything to God : Passionate Poems of Rumi</i> (1999) as translated by Shahram Shiva</small></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:This_morning_we_caught_a_rainbow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/This_morning_we_caught_a_rainbow.jpg/220px-This_morning_we_caught_a_rainbow.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/This_morning_we_caught_a_rainbow.jpg/330px-This_morning_we_caught_a_rainbow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/This_morning_we_caught_a_rainbow.jpg/440px-This_morning_we_caught_a_rainbow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="996" /></a><figcaption> To Love is to reach God.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wave_kils.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Wave_kils.jpg/220px-Wave_kils.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Wave_kils.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="309" data-file-height="231" /></a><figcaption>Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Glory,_spectre.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Glory%2C_spectre.jpg/220px-Glory%2C_spectre.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Glory%2C_spectre.jpg/330px-Glory%2C_spectre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Glory%2C_spectre.jpg/440px-Glory%2C_spectre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="994" data-file-height="663" /></a><figcaption>My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fogbow_glory_spectre_bridge.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Fogbow_glory_spectre_bridge.JPG/220px-Fogbow_glory_spectre_bridge.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Fogbow_glory_spectre_bridge.JPG/330px-Fogbow_glory_spectre_bridge.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Fogbow_glory_spectre_bridge.JPG/440px-Fogbow_glory_spectre_bridge.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly, no grand discourse, no proper schooling required...</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hoag%27s_object.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hoag%27s_object.jpg/220px-Hoag%27s_object.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hoag%27s_object.jpg/330px-Hoag%27s_object.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hoag%27s_object.jpg/440px-Hoag%27s_object.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1521" data-file-height="1489" /></a><figcaption>Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg/220px-LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg/330px-LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg/440px-LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>Even if you lose yourself in wrath for a hundred thousand years, at the end you will discover, it is me, who is the culmination of your dreams.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Allah-green.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Allah-green.svg/220px-Allah-green.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Allah-green.svg/330px-Allah-green.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Allah-green.svg/440px-Allah-green.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="206" data-file-height="215" /></a><figcaption>Didn't I tell you? <br /> They will accuse you of all the wrongdoings, they will call you ugly names, they will make you forget it is me, who is the source of your happiness.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>To Love is to reach God.</b><br />Never will a Lover's chest <br />feel any sorrow.<br />Never will a Lover's robe <br />be touched by mortals.<br />Never will a Lover's body <br />be found buried in the earth.<br />To Love is to reach God.</li></ul> <ul><li>When in Love, <br />body, mind, heart and soul don't even exist.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Love rests on no foundation. <br />It is an endless ocean,<br />with no beginning or end.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>They will ask you <br />what you have produced.<br />Say to them,<br />except for Love, <br />what else can a Lover produce?</li></ul> <ul><li><b>My head is bursting <br />with the joy of the unknown.</b><br />My heart is expanding a thousand fold.<br /><b>Every cell, <br />taking wings, <br />flies about the world.<br />All seek separately<br />the many faces of my Beloved.</b></li></ul> <ul><li><b>There is a certain cloud, <br />impregnated with a <br />thousand lightnings.<br />There is my body, <br />in it an ocean formed of his glory, <br />all the creation, <br />all the universes, <br />all the galaxies, <br />are lost in it.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>I always thought that <br />I was me — but no,<br /><b>I was you <br />and never knew it.</b></li></ul> <ul><li><b>This is a gathering of Lovers.<br />In this gathering <br />there is no high, no low,<br />no smart, no ignorant,<br />no special assembly, <br />no grand discourse, <br />no proper schooling required.<br />There is no master,<br />no disciple.</b><br />This gathering is more like a drunken party,<br />full of tricksters, fools, <br />mad men and mad women.<br />This is a gathering of Lovers.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Love said to me, <br /> there is nothing that is not me.<br />Be silent.</b></li></ul> <ul><li><p>I don't know where I am.<br />At times I plunge <br />to the bottom of the sea,<br />at times, rise up <br />like the Sun.</p><p> At times, the universe is pregnant by me,<br />at times I give birth to it.</p></li></ul> <ul><li>A hundred souls cried out, but<br />we are yours, we are yours, we are yours.<br />You are the light <br />that spoke to Moses and said<br />I am God, I am God, I am God.<br />I said Shams-e Tabrizi, who are you?<br />He said, I am you, I am you, I am you.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Even if you lose yourself in wrath<br />for a hundred thousand years,<br />at the end you will discover,<br />it is me, who is the culmination of your dreams.</b></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Didn't I tell you<br />not to be satisfied with the veil of this world?</b><br />I am the master illusionist,<br />it is me, who is the welcoming banner at the gate of your contentment.</li></ul> <ul><li>Didn't I tell you?<br />I am an ocean, you are a fish; <br />do not go to the dry land,<br />it is me, who is your comforting body of water.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Didn't I tell you?<br />They will accuse you of all the wrongdoings,<br />they will call you ugly names,<br />they will make you forget<br />it is me, who is the source of your happiness.</b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Teachings_of_Rumi_(1999)"><span id="Teachings_of_Rumi_.281999.29"></span><i>Teachings of Rumi</i> (1999)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumi&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Teachings of Rumi (1999)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Harrow_Beauty_peaches_at_Lyman_Orchards,_2009-08-30.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Harrow_Beauty_peaches_at_Lyman_Orchards%2C_2009-08-30.jpg/220px-Harrow_Beauty_peaches_at_Lyman_Orchards%2C_2009-08-30.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Harrow_Beauty_peaches_at_Lyman_Orchards%2C_2009-08-30.jpg/330px-Harrow_Beauty_peaches_at_Lyman_Orchards%2C_2009-08-30.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Harrow_Beauty_peaches_at_Lyman_Orchards%2C_2009-08-30.jpg/440px-Harrow_Beauty_peaches_at_Lyman_Orchards%2C_2009-08-30.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2853" data-file-height="2280" /></a><figcaption>The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><small>Quotes from <i>Teachings of Rumi</i> (1999), as translated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Harvey" class="extiw" title="w:Andrew Harvey">Andrew Harvey</a></small></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: <br /> In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.</b> <ul><li>Mathnawi</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"There's no courage", The Prophet said, "before the war has begun." <br /> <b>Drunkards vaunt their bravery when you speak of war. <br /> But in the blaze of battle they scatter like mice.<br /> I'm astonished by the man who wants purity <br /> And yet trembles when the harshness of polishing begin...<br /> When a man beats a carpet again and again <br /> It's not the carpet he's attacking, but the dirt in it.</b> <ul><li>Mathnawi</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hush,_Don't_Say_Anything_to_God:_Passionate_Poems_of_Rumi_(2000)"><span id="Hush.2C_Don.27t_Say_Anything_to_God:_Passionate_Poems_of_Rumi_.282000.29"></span><i>Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi</i> (2000)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumi&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi (2000)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small> <i>Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi</i> (2000) <i>as translated by Shahram Shiva</i></small></dd></dl> <ul><li>Love is best when mixed with anguish.</li></ul> <dl><dd>In our town,</dd> <dd>we won't call you a Lover</dd> <dd>if you escape the pain.</dd> <dd>Look for Love in this way,</dd> <dd>welcome it to your soul,</dd> <dd>and watch you spirit fly away in ecstasy.</dd></dl> <ul><li>I am so drunk</li></ul> <dl><dd>I have lost the way in</dd> <dd>and the way out.</dd> <dd>I have lost the earth, the moon, and the sky.</dd> <dd>Don't put another cup of wine in my hand,</dd> <dd>pour it in my mouth,</dd> <dd>for I have lost the way to my mouth.</dd></dl> <ul><li>Everyday my heart falls deeper in the pain of your sorrow.</li></ul> <dl><dd>Your cruel heart is weary of me already.</dd> <dd>You have left me alone, yet your sorrow remains.</dd> <dd>Truly your sorrow is more faithful than you are</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Quatrains_of_Rumi_(2008)"><span id="The_Quatrains_of_Rumi_.282008.29"></span><i>The Quatrains of Rumi</i> (2008)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumi&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The Quatrains of Rumi (2008)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small> <i>The Quatrains of Rumi</i> (2008) as translated by Ibrahim Gamard and Rawan Farhadi </small></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>Love is the path and road of our Prophet</b><br /></li></ul> <dl><dd><b>We were born from Love and Love was our mother.</b><br /></dd> <dd><b>O you who are our mother, you are hidden within veils,</b><br /></dd> <dd><b>Concealed from our disbelieving natures</b><br /> <ul><li>"The States of the Lover", p. 456</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>The fire of Love cooks me</b><br /></li></ul> <dl><dd><b>Every night it drags me to the Tavern.</b><br /></dd> <dd><b>It seats me with the People of the Tavern</b><br /></dd> <dd><b>So that no one except the People of the Tavern will know me.</b><br /> <ul><li>"The States of the Lover", p. 458</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>By eating meagerly, you become clever and aware.</b><br /></li></ul> <dl><dd><b>And by eating gluttonously, you become foolish and idle.</b><br /></dd> <dd><b>Your being full of misery is entirely from your gluttony.</b><br /></dd> <dd><b>You will become less miserable if you become a sparse eater.</b><br /> <ul><li>"Advice to the Disciple and Aspirant" p. 507</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>If you dwell with unaware people, you will be cold,</b><br /></li></ul> <dl><dd><b>But if you dwell with aware ones, you will be a true man</b><br /></dd> <dd><b>Go, and build your hermit cell inside a furnace, like gold</b><br /></dd> <dd><b>If you go out of the furnace, you will be frozen solid</b><br /> <ul><li>"Advice to the Disciple and Aspirant", p. 516</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>Dwell in the place where your companions are spiritual heroes,</b><br /></li></ul> <dl><dd><b>So that they may wash the foul soot from your [heart]</b><br /></dd> <dd><b>Don't think about their faults, for they </b><br /></dd> <dd><b>Will know about it before you think.</b> <ul><li>"Advice to the Disciple and Aspirant" p. 527</li></ul></dd></dl> <p><br /></p><div style="padding: .5em; border: 1px solid black; background-color: #FCFCCC;"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Disputed">Disputed</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumi&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Disputed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Essential_Rumi_(1995)"><span id="The_Essential_Rumi_.281995.29"></span><i>The Essential Rumi</i> (1995)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumi&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: The Essential Rumi (1995)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small><i>The Essential Rumi</i> (1995) translated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Barks" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Coleman Barks">Coleman Barks</a> with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynold_A._Nicholson" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Reynold A. Nicholson">Reynold A. Nicholson</a>. Barks does not speak or read <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>; his 'translations' are therefore technically <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/paraphrase" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:paraphrase">paraphrases</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Barks#Criticism" class="extiw" title="w:Coleman Barks">have been criticised</a> by many scholars. Barks bases his paraphrases entirely on other <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> translations of Rumi which include renderings by Moyne and Nicholson.</small></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:M51_whirlpool_galaxy_black_hole.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/M51_whirlpool_galaxy_black_hole.jpg/220px-M51_whirlpool_galaxy_black_hole.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/M51_whirlpool_galaxy_black_hole.jpg/330px-M51_whirlpool_galaxy_black_hole.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/M51_whirlpool_galaxy_black_hole.jpg/440px-M51_whirlpool_galaxy_black_hole.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2169" data-file-height="2025" /></a><figcaption>What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Whirling_Dervishes,_Konya,_Turkey,_RMO.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Whirling_Dervishes%2C_Konya%2C_Turkey%2C_RMO.jpg/220px-Whirling_Dervishes%2C_Konya%2C_Turkey%2C_RMO.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Whirling_Dervishes%2C_Konya%2C_Turkey%2C_RMO.jpg/330px-Whirling_Dervishes%2C_Konya%2C_Turkey%2C_RMO.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Whirling_Dervishes%2C_Konya%2C_Turkey%2C_RMO.jpg/440px-Whirling_Dervishes%2C_Konya%2C_Turkey%2C_RMO.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption>There is a community of the spirit Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street, and being the noise.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CL0024%2B17.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/CL0024%2B17.jpg/220px-CL0024%2B17.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/CL0024%2B17.jpg/330px-CL0024%2B17.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/CL0024%2B17.jpg/440px-CL0024%2B17.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3921" data-file-height="3921" /></a><figcaption><i>There is no reality but God</i>, says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Realm_of_Rane_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/The_Realm_of_Rane_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/220px-The_Realm_of_Rane_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/The_Realm_of_Rane_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/330px-The_Realm_of_Rane_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/The_Realm_of_Rane_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/440px-The_Realm_of_Rane_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG 2x" data-file-width="447" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Waterdrops_(4648726722).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Waterdrops_%284648726722%29.jpg/220px-Waterdrops_%284648726722%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Waterdrops_%284648726722%29.jpg/330px-Waterdrops_%284648726722%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Waterdrops_%284648726722%29.jpg/440px-Waterdrops_%284648726722%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1324" data-file-height="1986" /></a><figcaption>Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty, a drop of the <a href="/wiki/Tigris" class="mw-redirect" title="Tigris">Tigris</a> that cannot be contained by any skin.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg/220px-Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg/330px-Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg/440px-Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3097" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ" class="extiw" title="w:Christ">Christ</a> is the population of the world, and every object as well.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cristo_Redentor_-_Rio.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Cristo_Redentor_-_Rio.jpg/220px-Cristo_Redentor_-_Rio.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="265" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Cristo_Redentor_-_Rio.jpg/330px-Cristo_Redentor_-_Rio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Cristo_Redentor_-_Rio.jpg/440px-Cristo_Redentor_-_Rio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="829" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>The miracle of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> is himself, not what he said or did about the future.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mira.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Mira.jpg/220px-Mira.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="55" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Mira.jpg/330px-Mira.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Mira.jpg/440px-Mira.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Smallsword.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Smallsword.jpg/220px-Smallsword.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="32" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Smallsword.jpg/330px-Smallsword.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Smallsword.jpg/440px-Smallsword.jpg 2x" data-file-width="596" data-file-height="88" /></a><figcaption>Learn from Ali how to fight without your ego participating.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Basmala.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Basmala.svg/220px-Basmala.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="43" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Basmala.svg/330px-Basmala.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Basmala.svg/440px-Basmala.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="608" data-file-height="119" /></a><figcaption>God's lion did nothing that didn't originate from his deep center.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brocken-tanzawa.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/220px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/330px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/440px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>This that we are now … The human body and the universe grew from this, not this from the universe and the human body.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sunset_Solar_Halo_at_Keys_View_of_Joshua_Tree_National_Park.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Sunset_Solar_Halo_at_Keys_View_of_Joshua_Tree_National_Park.jpg/220px-Sunset_Solar_Halo_at_Keys_View_of_Joshua_Tree_National_Park.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Sunset_Solar_Halo_at_Keys_View_of_Joshua_Tree_National_Park.jpg/330px-Sunset_Solar_Halo_at_Keys_View_of_Joshua_Tree_National_Park.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Sunset_Solar_Halo_at_Keys_View_of_Joshua_Tree_National_Park.jpg/440px-Sunset_Solar_Halo_at_Keys_View_of_Joshua_Tree_National_Park.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1360" /></a><figcaption>Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mevlevi_Dervishes_Perform..._(469777809).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Mevlevi_Dervishes_Perform..._%28469777809%29.jpg/220px-Mevlevi_Dervishes_Perform..._%28469777809%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Mevlevi_Dervishes_Perform..._%28469777809%29.jpg/330px-Mevlevi_Dervishes_Perform..._%28469777809%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Mevlevi_Dervishes_Perform..._%28469777809%29.jpg/440px-Mevlevi_Dervishes_Perform..._%28469777809%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1952" data-file-height="2576" /></a><figcaption>Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in <a href="/wiki/Silence" title="Silence">silence</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Crepuscal_rays_trees.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Crepuscal_rays_trees.jpg/220px-Crepuscal_rays_trees.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Crepuscal_rays_trees.jpg/330px-Crepuscal_rays_trees.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Crepuscal_rays_trees.jpg/440px-Crepuscal_rays_trees.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="667" /></a><figcaption>Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RegenbogenDSCN0352.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/RegenbogenDSCN0352.JPG/220px-RegenbogenDSCN0352.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/RegenbogenDSCN0352.JPG/330px-RegenbogenDSCN0352.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/RegenbogenDSCN0352.JPG/440px-RegenbogenDSCN0352.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a><figcaption>Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through, and be silent.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.</b> <ul><li>"Who says words with my mouth?" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?<br />I cannot stop asking.</b><br />If I could taste one sip of an answer,<br />I could break out of this prison for drunks.<br />I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.<br />Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home. <ul><li>"Who says words with my mouth?" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.<br />I don't plan it.<br />When I'm outside the saying of it,<br />I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.</b> <ul><li>"Who says words with my mouth?" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is a community of the spirit <br /> Join it, and feel the delight <br /> of walking in the noisy street, <br />and <i>being</i> the noise. <ul><li>"A Community of the Spirit" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Quit acting like a wolf, and feel <br /> the shepherd's love filling you. <ul><li>"A Community of the Spirit" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p><b>Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. <br /> Live in <a href="/wiki/Silence" title="Silence">silence</a>.</b></p><p> Flow down and down in always <br /> widening rings of being.</p> <ul><li>"A Community of the Spirit" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What is the body? That shadow of a shadow<br />of your love, that somehow contains<br />the entire universe. <ul><li>"Where are we?" in Ch. 2 : Bewilderment</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, <br /> there is a field. I will meet you there.</b> <br /> When the soul lies down in that grass, <br /> the world is too full to talk about <br /> language, ideas, even the phrase <i>each other</i> <br />doesn't make any sense. <ul><li>"The Great Wagon" Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 36</li> <li>Variant translations: <br />Between wrongness and rightness there is a field. I will meet you there. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Counselling Psychology : Integration of Theory, Research and Supervised Practice</i> (1998) by Petruska Clarkson</li></ul></li> <li>Out beyond the world of ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Lightning in a Bottle : Proven Lessons for Leading Change</i> (2000) by David H. Baum</li></ul></li> <li>Out beyond ideas of right and wrong doing, there is a field. I will meet you there. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Architects of Peace : Visions of Hope in Words and Images</i> (2002) by Michael Collopy, p. 109</li></ul></li> <li><b>Out beyond ideas of rightdoing <br /> and wrongdoing <br /> There is a field. <br /> I will meet you there.</b> <ul><li><i>Strategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy : Individual, Collective and Organizational Learning Processes</i> (2000) by Robert L. Cross and Sam B. Israelit</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p><b>Spring is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ" class="extiw" title="w:Christ">Christ</a>, <br /> Raising martyred plants from their shrouds.</b> <br /> Their mouths open in gratitude, wanting to be kissed. <br /> The glow of the rose and the tulip means a lamp is inside. <br /> A leaf trembles. I tremble in the wind-beauty like silk from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan" class="extiw" title="w:Turkestan">Turkestan</a>. <br /> The censer fans into flame. </p><p> This wind is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_God" class="extiw" title="w:Spirit of God">Holy Spirit</a>. <br /> The trees are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus)" class="extiw" title="w:Mary (mother of Jesus)">Mary</a>.</p> <ul><li>"Spring is Christ" in Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 37</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>We talk about this and that. There’s no rest except on these branching moments.</b> <ul><li>"Spring is Christ" in Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 38</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><i>There is no reality but God</i>, <br /> says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.</b> <ul><li>"The Grasses" in Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 44</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Disputational knowing wants customers. <br /> It has no soul.</b> <ul><li>"The Sheikh who played with the Children" in Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 46</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. <br /> Someone sober will worry about events going badly. <br /><b>Let the lover be.</b> <ul><li>Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 46</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p><b>I can't stop pointing<br /> to the beauty.</b></p><p><b>Every moment and place says, <br /> "Put this design in your carpet!"</b></p> <ul><li>"Put This Design in Your Carpet" Ch. 11 : Union</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>From <a href="/wiki/Mansur_Al-Hallaj" title="Mansur Al-Hallaj">Hallaj</a>, I learned to hunt lions, but I became something hungrier than a lion. <ul><li>"Hallaj" Ch. 11 : Union</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p><i>This dance is the joy of existence.</i></p><p> I am filled with you. <br /> Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul.<br />There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. <br />Nothing in this existence but that existence.</p> <ul><li>"We Three" Ch. 11 : Union</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The place that <a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a> made to worship in, <br /> called the Far Mosque, is not built of earth<br /> and water and stone, but of intention and wisdom<br /> and mystical conversation and compassionate action.</b> <ul><li>"The Far Mosque" in Ch. 17 : Solomon Poems, p. 191</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p>This heart sanctuary does <br /> exist, but it can't be described. Why try! </p><p> Solomon goes there every morning and gives guidance<br />with words, with musical harmonies, and in actions,<br />which are the deepest teaching. <b>A prince is just<br />a conceit until he <i>does</i> something with generosity.</b></p> <ul><li>"The Far Mosque" in Ch. 17 : Solomon Poems, p. 191</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Gamble everything for love, <br /> if you are a true human being.</b> <ul><li>"On Gambling" Ch. 18 : The Three Fish, p. 193</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Do not believe in an absurdity <br /> no matter who says it. <ul><li>"The Three Fish" Ch. 18 : The Three Fish, p. 196</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p><b>Silence<br /> is an ocean. Speech is a river.</b></p><p>When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk <br />into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, <br /> and bring your talky business to an end </p><p> <b>Traditional words are just babbling <br /> in that presence, and babbling is a substitute <br /> for sight.</b></p> <ul><li>"The Three Fish" Ch. 18 : The Three Fish, p. 196</li> <li>Variant translations or adaptations:</li> <li><b>Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.</b> <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Teachers of Wisdom</i> (2010) by Igor Kononenko, p. 134</li></ul></li> <li>Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. <ul><li>As quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2015/10/02/character-of-the-week-rumi/">"Rumi’s wisdom" (2 October 2015)</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Paulo_Coelho" title="Paulo Coelho">Paulo Coelho</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Every object and being in the universe is <br /> a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,<br />a drop of the <a href="/wiki/Tigris" class="mw-redirect" title="Tigris">Tigris</a> that cannot be contained <br />by any skin.</b> Every jarful spills and makes the earth <br />more shining, as though covered in satin. <ul><li>"The Gift of Water" Ch. 18 : The Three Fish, p. 200</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>You knock at the door of Reality.</b> You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open. <ul><li>"The Gift of Water" Ch. 18 : The Three Fish, p. 200</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ" class="extiw" title="w:Christ">Christ</a> is the population of the world, <br /> and every object as well.</b> There is no room<br />for hypocrisy. <b>Why use bitter soup for healing <br />when sweet water is everywhere?</b> <ul><li>Ch. 19 : Jesus Poems, p. 204</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Lovers think they are looking for each other,<br />but there is only one search: wandering<br />This world is wandering that, both inside one<br />transparent sky. <b>In here<br />there is no dogma and no heresy.</b> <ul><li>Ch. 19 : Jesus Poems, p. 205</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The miracle of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> is himself, not what he said or did<br />about the future.</b> Forget the future.<br />I'd worship someone who could do that. <ul><li>Ch. 19 : Jesus Poems, p. 205</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The cure for pain is in the pain.<br /><b>Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both,<br />you don't belong with us.</b> <ul><li>Ch. 19 : Jesus Poems</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It may be that the satisfaction I need<br />depends on my going away, so that when I've gone<br />and come back, I'll find it at home. <ul><li>"In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: In Cairo, Dreaming of Baghdad." Ch. 20 : In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: More Teaching Stories, p. 206</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Learn from Ali how to fight<br /> without your ego participating. <br /> God's lion did nothing<br /> that didn't originate<br /> from his deep center.</b> <ul><li>"Ali in Battle" an account of <a href="/wiki/Ali" title="Ali">Ali ibn Abi Talib</a>'s explanation as to why he declined to kill someone who had spit in his face as Ali was defeating him in battle, in Ch. 20 : In Baghdad dreaming of Cairo</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I am God's Lion, not the lion of passion.... <br /> I have no longing<br /> except for the One. <br /> When a wind of personal reaction comes,<br /> I do not go along with it.</b><br /> There are many winds full of anger,<br /> and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, <br /> but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been. <ul><li>"Ali in Battle" in Ch. 20 : In Baghdad dreaming of Cairo</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p>This <br /> that we are now<br /> created the body, cell by cell, <br />like bees building a honeycomb.</p><p> <b>The human body and the universe<br /> grew from this, not this <br /> from the universe and the human body.</b></p> <ul><li>"This We Have Now" in Ch. 25 : Majesty. p. 262</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.</b> <ul><li>"Unmarked boxes" /Ode#1937</li></ul></li></ul> <p><b>Not yet sourced by chapter:</b> </p> <ul><li><b>Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>God's joy moved from unmarked box to unmarked box, <br /> from cell to cell.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Observe the wonders as they occur around you. <br /> Don't claim them. Feel the artistry <br />moving through, and be silent.</b></li></ul> </div> <p><br /></p><div style="padding: .5em; border: 1px solid black; background-color: #FFE7CC;"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Misattributed">Misattributed</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumi&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Misattributed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Schucman" title="Helen Schucman">Helen Schucman</a> in <i>A Course in Miracles</i> (1976) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Schucman" class="extiw" title="w:Helen Schucman">Helen Schucman</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thetford" class="extiw" title="w:William Thetford">William Thetford</a>, Ch. 16 The Forgiveness of Illusions, p. 338,#6.</li></ul></li> <li>Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. <ul><li>"The Forty Rules of Love" (2010) by Elif Şafak (The book is about Rumi, but the quote is the author's own words)</li></ul></li> <li>Study me as much as you like, you will never know me, for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see. <ul><li>Frequently quoted on social media, but was not written by Rumi in Persian.</li></ul></li> <li>We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us. <ul><li>Frequently quoted on social media, but appears to be a misquote of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Browne" title="Thomas Browne">Thomas Browne</a>'s "We carry within us the wonders we seek without us: there is all Africa and her prodigies in us" in <i>Religio Medici</i> (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15.</li></ul></li></ul> </div> <ul><li>Before you speak, let your words pass through 3 gates; Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? <ul><li>Various sources attribute this saying to Rumi, although never to a specific work or correspondence. It may be a misquote of Sathya Sai Baba, a 20th century guru</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_about_Rumi">Quotes about Rumi</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumi&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Quotes about Rumi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Strange" class="mw-redirect" title="Strange">Strange</a> as it may seem to our Western <a href="/wiki/Egoism" class="mw-redirect" title="Egoism">egoism</a>, the prospect of sharing in the general, impersonal immortality of the human <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> kindles in the Sufi an <a href="/wiki/Enthusiasm" title="Enthusiasm">enthusiasm</a> as deep and triumphant as that of the most ardent believer in a personal <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> continuing beyond the grave.</b> Jalaluddin, after describing the <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a> of man in the material <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> and anticipating his further growth in the spiritual <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a>, utters a heartfelt <a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">prayer</a> — for what? — for <a href="/wiki/Kenosis" title="Kenosis">self-annihilation</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Ocean" class="mw-redirect" title="Ocean">ocean</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Godhead" title="Godhead">Godhead</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynold_A._Nicholson" class="extiw" title="w:Reynold A. Nicholson">Reynold Alleyne Nicholson</a>, in <i>The Mystics of Islam</i> (1914) edited by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, p. 124</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The idea that eroticism and spirituality should be separated is a travesty of both...Or read the great Persian poet Rumi...All mystical poetry is erotic, uses erotic language, because it desires fusion with God...all lovers see the beloved’s face and body as divine. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alicia_Ostriker" title="Alicia Ostriker">Alicia Ostriker</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bass.utdallas.edu/reunion/ostriker/">Interview</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Also_See">Also See</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumi&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Also See"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allama_Iqbal" class="mw-redirect" title="Allama Iqbal">Allama Iqbal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah" title="Muhammad Ali Jinnah">Muhammad Ali Jinnah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mir_Taqi_Mir" title="Mir Taqi Mir">Mir Taqi Mir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghandi" class="mw-redirect" title="Ghandi">Ghandi</a></li></ul> <p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumi&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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