Rumi
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He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desire overcomes his intellect is less than an animal.
— Kabir Helminski (ed.) The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations (2000)
Rumi
Iranian poet
- Fame79.6
- Momentum1.7
- Writers rank#76
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- Fame79.6
- Momentum1.7
- Writers rank#76
- Wikipedia112.2K
Lived 1207–1273, aged 66
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A 13th-century Sufi mystic whose ecstatic poems about divine love became the best-selling poetry in America eight centuries later — translated, beloved, and stripped of nearly all their Islamic context.
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Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī was born in 1207 in Balkh, but Mongol invasions sent his family fleeing west through Iran, Baghdad, and Damascus before settling in Konya at nineteen — a former Roman province that gave him his name. He was set to become an Islamic scholar like his father until a wandering dervish named Shams Tabrīzī arrived and the two became so consumed with each other that Rumi abandoned his duties. When Shams vanished, Rumi's grief ignited his poetic life: the Divan of Shams Tabrīzī poured out, followed by the Masnavi, a sprawling spiritual epic in Persian that ranks just behind…
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Rumi
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The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
— Timothy Freke, Rumi Wisdom: Daily Teachings from the Great Sufi Master (2000)
Rumi
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This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
— I, 232-3 (tr. Helminski, 1990)
Rumi
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Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
— I, 431 (tr. Helminski, 1990)
Rumi
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The idol of your self is the mother of all idols. To regard the self as easy to subdue is a mistake.
— I, 760-2 (tr. Helminski, 1990)
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