Mevlana Jalaleddin Muhammad Rumi was born on September 30, 1207, Balkh, Afghanistan. An outstanding Persian poet - Sufi. Died December 17, 1273, Konya, Türkiye.

Aphorisms, quotes, sayings of Rumi

• Love is the astrolabe of truth.
• Die before you die. Be born while you're still alive.
• Repeating someone else's words does not mean understanding their meaning.
• When wise men teach a fool, they throw the crops into salt licks.
• May retribution strike with disaster those who pay for friendship with enmity.
• Make friends with smart people, because a fool friend is sometimes more dangerous than a smart enemy.
• And the heat of the day will not scorch the one who is tempered in proud patience.
• This earth is not dust, it is a vessel full of blood, the blood of lovers.
• And no matter how you darn, the next day there will be a hole wider than yesterday.
• The body is our veil in this world: we are like the sea hidden under a straw.
• Without your speeches the soul would not have ears, without your ears the soul would not have a tongue.
• Do not look for our grave in the ground after death - look for it in the hearts of enlightened people.
• In the mirror, as you know, everything is the other way around. But without him we would never see ourselves.
• Being a precious silk fabric, man became a patch on worn-out clothes.
• As soon as Allah asked the people: “Am I not your Lord?” – I instantly comprehended his law! I've been in love for a long time.
• O man, you do not know the value of your own soul, since out of His bounty Allah gave it to you without payment.
• Only when a person finds himself deprived of external existence, like winter, is there hope that a new spring will arise in him.
• There can be both bad and good in a person of love. Don’t look at it, look at the root - and you will see the light coming from you.
• Love should be something that we enjoy. Love can give us countless joys. I found my beginning in mother's love. Blessed be this mother forever.
• In the slaughterhouse of love, only the best are killed, Not the weak, the ugly and the unlucky. There is no need to be afraid of such a death. Killed not by love? You know, he lived like carrion!
• You seek pleasure in sweet things - what an absurdity! After all, you are a sea of ​​comprehension hidden in a drop of dew, you are the Universe hidden in a body one and a half meters long.
• If the secret of the universe were to reveal itself during a sigh, you would realize the nonsense of this life, killing yourself in the blink of an eye. But drunk with yourself, in eternal darkness, you are doomed to doze until the wine of the prophet awakens in the destroyed tavern.

This Persian poet is less famous in our country than Nizami, Avicenna, Saadi or Khayyam, although undeservedly. Rumi Jalaluddin had the opportunity to become famous in various fields, he achieved success in Islamic theology, jurisprudence and Sufi mysticism. Many of his scientific works had a huge impact on the culture of the ancient Middle East due to the ability of this outstanding man to destroy established barriers, the ability to look at life from an unusual angle and have his own opinion on a variety of issues that concern humanity today.

The fate of the poet

Rumi (Mevlana) was born into the family of the famous Persian lawyer, theologian and preacher Behaeddin in 1207. The father of the future poet had to flee persecution for his free-thinking views, from which we can conclude that the ability and desire for free-thinking was inherited by his son. However, the young man grew up inquisitive and received an excellent education, and not only the humanities (legal and theosophical), he also studied the exact sciences.

Rumi's worldview was formed under the influence of Islamic religious doctrine; he firmly believed in the immortality of the soul, and defined atheism with the rather crude word “bestiality.”

Literary heritage

After his father's death (1231), the poet took over his position as court scholar. Years of wandering, the disorder of Iranian social life and other circumstances finally made him a Sufi pantheist, which led to a conflict with the clergy.

Rumi did not leave very many literary works (but also quite a few; over fifty thousand couplets are included in just one of his didactic poems), and all of them, of course, deserve the reader’s attention. In his poems, philosophical and ascetic ideas and frank eroticism, characteristic of other poets of the East, peacefully coexist. Below are 20 quotes that give some insight into Rumi's work. Perhaps they will arouse interest and encourage someone to read his poems in more detail.

Poetry and prose

“You won’t find your love anywhere.

She's in you all the time"

“Fly through the secret skies, when clothes fly off in an instant,

Firstly, to escape from life,

The second is to walk without feeling the ground.

This is love!

“You don’t need to look for love,

But just find the barriers

Inside yourself, interfering with her"

"And a thousand half-lovers are not worth

Only one truly loving heart"

“No matter how much we strive to describe and explain love, we are ashamed of our words when we fall in love.”

“Love is only a bridge between us and everything else”

“If you haven't found me in yourself, you'll never find me. For I have been with you from the very beginning"

“Words can explain a lot, but they make love even more inexplicable.”

“The mind is powerless to express love”

“Only with a heart can you touch the sky”

“Let the beauty of your love be the beauty of your deeds”

"I am yours. Don't let me come back to you"

“When I’m with you, I can’t sleep all night.

And without you I can’t sleep either.

Thank God for these two insomnias,

And the difference between them"

Recognize you when they see you around the corner.

Inhale your scent

Entering the palace you abandoned.

A light gait with the clicking of heels...

To know your lips, even just a little,

When I lean over to kiss you.

I want to feel the thrill of my heart,

When you whisper to me “more!”

“From your light I will learn to love,

Your beauty is like writing poetry.

You dance in my chest, where no one sees us,

But sometimes art is visible"

“Farewells for those who love with their eyes.

For those who love with heart and soul, there is no parting."

“Only two will never get enough,”

Lover of women and lover of knowledge"

“Wherever you are and whatever you do, always love!”

“Allow yourself to be at the mercy of a strange craving

To what you really love.

By allowing, you will never get lost."

“There is a place between the righteous and the sinful.

I'll wait for you there"

The name of such an eastern poet as Jalaluddin Rumi is not heard by every person. But in the meantime, this truly brilliant writer was the author of truly amazing works. Being an ascetic and spiritually enriched person, Rumi practically did not care about material wealth. He devoted all his energy to creativity, and, of course, to the enlightenment of the soul.

His works are unusual, you won’t even find rhyme here, but the meaning penetrates so deeply into the consciousness that there is no doubt that these amazing poems reflect ourselves and our inner world with all its experiences and fears.

• Make friends with smart people, because a friend is a fool Sometimes more dangerous than a smart enemy.

• Sew up your eyes, let your heart become your eye.

• I lived on the edge of madness, wanting to know the reasons, I knocked on the door. She opened. I was knocking from inside!

• Try not to resist the changes that come into your life. Instead, let life live through you. And don't worry about it turning upside down. How do you know that the life you are used to is better than the one that will come?

• What you are looking for is also looking for you.

• This world is mountains, and our actions are screams: the echo of our scream in the mountains always returns to us.

• If they trusted not words, but the truth that is known by the heart, and the heart that is kindled by the truth, then there would be no limit to miracles.

• In the mirror, as you know, everything is the other way around. But without him we would never have seen ourselves!

• You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the whole ocean in a drop.

• Beyond the ideas of right and wrong actions there is a field. I'll meet you there.

• If every hair of mine became a tongue, I wouldn’t express even a fraction of gratitude!

• My religion is Love. Every heart is my temple.

• Without your speeches the soul would not have ears, without your ears the soul would not have a tongue.

• When the world brings you to your knees, you are in the perfect position to pray.

• You, wise one, first know the essence of things, do not trust deceptive appearances.

• What seems like a stone to an ordinary person is a pearl to someone who knows.

• Without being awake in heart, you and I are unlikely to achieve what we passionately dreamed of.

• This is a very subtle concept: everything you love is you.

• The worst loneliness is to remain among those who do not understand you.

• The Almighty answers in three ways. He says yes and gives you what you wanted. Says “no” and gives what is best. He says “be patient” and gives the best.

• He who has great love has great trials.

• Let the heart be the eye. And with this eye you will see a different world.

• You will become that to which your aspirations are directed, for “a bird flies with the help of its wings, but a believer flies with his aspirations.”

• Be who you are. Or be what you appear to be.

• Instead of lying or deceiving, keep silent - you will hear the sound of wondrous music!

• If you cleanse your heart of rust, your prayers will reach any height.

• Everything breaks where it is subtle, and only a person breaks from rudeness.

• Always add a word of gratitude to any phrase - “if God wills it” - then go.

• They say that there is a door that opens the passage from heart to heart, but what good is a door if there are no walls?

• Why are you in prison when the doors are so wide open?

• There is in you the presence of that which will exist when these stars are no more.

• Bare branches, seemingly dormant in winter, are secretly working, preparing for their spring.

• This world is mountains, and our actions are screams: the echo of our scream in the mountains always returns to us.

• And with the thought that is born in the hearts, you can throw a hundred worlds into dust.

• When troubles fall on you one after another, when they bring you to an unbearable state, just don’t give up! Because this is the point where the course of events will change.

• Die before you die. Be born while you're still alive.

• The world is so full that words are empty...

• As soon as you accept the misfortune sent, the gates of heaven will open before you.

• Before you educate your tongue, educate your heart. Because words come from the heart, come out through the tongue.

• Visit your friends often: paths not taken are overgrown with thistles and thorns.

This Persian poet is less famous in our country than Nizami, Avicenna, Saadi or Khayyam, although undeservedly. Rumi Jalaluddin had the opportunity to become famous in various fields, he achieved success in Islamic theology, jurisprudence and Sufi mysticism. Many of his scientific works had a huge impact on the culture of the ancient Middle East due to the ability of this outstanding man to destroy established barriers, the ability to look at life from an unusual angle and have his own opinion on a variety of issues that concern humanity today.

The fate of the poet

Rumi (Mevlana) was born into the family of the famous Persian lawyer, theologian and preacher Behaeddin in 1207. The father of the future poet had to flee persecution for his free-thinking views, from which we can conclude that the ability and desire for free-thinking was inherited by his son. However, the young man grew up inquisitive and received an excellent education, and not only the humanities (legal and theosophical), he also studied the exact sciences.

Rumi's worldview was formed under the influence of Islamic religious doctrine; he firmly believed in the immortality of the soul, and defined atheism with the rather crude word “bestiality.”

Literary heritage

After his father's death (1231), the poet took over his position as court scholar. Years of wandering, the disorder of Iranian social life and other circumstances finally made him a Sufi pantheist, which led to a conflict with the clergy.

Rumi did not leave very many literary works (but also quite a few; over fifty thousand couplets are included in just one of his didactic poems), and all of them, of course, deserve the reader’s attention. In his poems, philosophical and ascetic ideas and frank eroticism, characteristic of other poets of the East, peacefully coexist. Below are 20 quotes that give some insight into Rumi's work. Perhaps they will arouse interest and encourage someone to read his poems in more detail.

Poetry and prose

“You won’t find your love anywhere.

She's in you all the time"

“Fly through the secret skies, when clothes fly off in an instant,

Firstly, to escape from life,

The second is to walk without feeling the ground.

This is love!

“You don’t need to look for love,

But just find the barriers

Inside yourself, interfering with her"

"And a thousand half-lovers are not worth

Only one truly loving heart"

“No matter how much we strive to describe and explain love, we are ashamed of our words when we fall in love.”

“Love is only a bridge between us and everything else”

“If you haven't found me in yourself, you'll never find me. For I have been with you from the very beginning"

“Words can explain a lot, but they make love even more inexplicable.”

“The mind is powerless to express love”

“Only with a heart can you touch the sky”

“Let the beauty of your love be the beauty of your deeds”

"I am yours. Don't let me come back to you"

“When I’m with you, I can’t sleep all night.

And without you I can’t sleep either.

Thank God for these two insomnias,

And the difference between them"

Recognize you when they see you around the corner.

Inhale your scent

Entering the palace you abandoned.

A light gait with the clicking of heels...

To know your lips, even just a little,

When I lean over to kiss you.

I want to feel the thrill of my heart,

When you whisper to me “more!”

“From your light I will learn to love,

Your beauty is like writing poetry.

You dance in my chest, where no one sees us,

But sometimes art is visible"

“Farewells for those who love with their eyes.

For those who love with heart and soul, there is no parting."

“Only two will never get enough,”

Lover of women and lover of knowledge"

“Wherever you are and whatever you do, always love!”

“Allow yourself to be at the mercy of a strange craving

To what you really love.

Jalaleddin Rumi, (1207–1273), Persian-Tajik Sufi poet

Love has no basis. Love is an endless ocean without beginning or end.

Science is learned through words, art through practice, and alienation is learned through company.

Let the beauty of what you love become the beauty of your actions.

What seems like a stone to an ordinary person is a pearl to someone who knows.

You were born with wings. Why crawl through life like a reptile?

Bare branches, seemingly dormant in winter, are secretly working, preparing for their spring.

Do not be sad. Everything you have lost will return to you in a different form.

A lion that sweeps away an enemy formation is not as great as a lion that has controlled itself.

While you are healthy and strong, work hard! Labor and desire are not opposed to the happiness of finding a treasure. Keep up the good work, and if you are blessed with destiny, it will find you.

Repeating someone else's words does not mean understanding their meaning.

Where is the peace? Which side?
Where we are alone with the Truth!

And if you hide in your soul
Just thoughts, where is the loss, where is the gain,
I feel sorry for you: on the paths to eternal heights
People who are careless cannot know bliss.

Don't meddle in other people's affairs and don't build
A happy home is one's own in someone else's misfortune.

Those who are not very similar to each other
The one who knows the essence, and the one who knows.

Is it not because people beat them?
Are prophets more perfect than all others?

Our path is not straight, we have sins,
How can we separate the essence from the husk?

Wisdom must not be measured by gray hair.
Sometimes they are so smart
Whose beard knows no grey.
Meanwhile it happens: one of us
He is not wise, although he is gray-haired.

No wonder they say: a fool has
There is no more grief than from the tongue.

There is no greater sacrilege in the world,
How to show gloating when seeing someone’s pain.
After all, he is more sinful than other sinners
He who is comforted by the suffering of others!

Everything is insignificant: both title and nickname,
Only meaning and understanding are essential.
Sometimes the cause of disaster is different
Different interpretation of a word.
Misunderstanding of the essence is all around
It is fraught with enmity or discord!

But there is no life for that in the world,
Who seeks food in vanity of vanities,
Who seeks food only for the flesh,
Neglecting the food of knowledge.

Oh my tongue, I suffer every day,
But I carry out all your commands.
You and the good that fills my house
And the punishment that burns him with fire.

Our flesh is separated from our soul,
There is a veil between them, it is dark.

Sometimes, when everything around is raging,
Willingness to accept death is more necessary than science.
The abyss pulls all the living to the bottom,
Only the dead are destined to sail on the waves.

Sometimes a bird flies high in the sky,
Just a shadow across the field, rushing along the road.
And you, fool, run after her all day,
But how to catch something that is just a shadow?
You see not an object, but the shadow of an object,
Where is the object itself? He's in the sky somewhere.

The vices, whose name is “evil” and “lust”,
People are often made to look askew.
These vices cloud our vision,
They are ordered to see two things in one object.

Sometimes we are happy with our actions,
Considering them a blessing, we expect a reward.
Without noticing that, according to everyone,
A grave sin is hidden in our actions.
Sometimes a person himself doesn’t know
Those properties that it has.

Shooting a word like an arrow from a bow,
Neither the meaning nor the sound can be returned to us.
We manage to curb the collapse
In the mountains until he gained strength.

Let the word be good, but sometimes
Words do less good than harm.

We are not free to see our flaws,
Any flaw is more visible from the outside.
If only the wicked saw his vice,
He could have easily fixed it.

Don't worry about dangerous friendships
With a fool whose mind is a prisoner, the teacher is a lie.

You'll sooner shout to the stones,
What do you care about people mired in greed?

The word suddenly, unexpectedly rolls off the tongue,
Like the arrow of a clumsy shooter.

Words that are good or bad -
Only a curtain before the vaults of the soul.

The word can revive the dead
And turn the whole world into a desert.
It happens that the same word
Torments one, targets another.

It sometimes happens that even a lion
He eats carrion, weakened from hunger.

Sometimes poison becomes nectar
In the garden, where no grudge is held against the guest.
But there is no good in you - even the garden
Heaven will seem darker than hell.

Everyone there always loses,
Who is connected with what is illusory and perishable.

An illness awaits those who imagine themselves to be ill.

No one should wish for this,
What is hard to experience for yourself.
When you dig a hole for someone,
For some reason you find yourself in a hole.

The one who has chosen the path of quest,
He will find what he was looking for someday.
Know how to discern deceit, sage,
In the words of beauties, in what the flatterer whispers,
After all, even the devil, hiding his face,
Sometimes he says: “Allah is great!”

Loss is not a reason for sadness.
The poorer we are, the easier it is for us to care,
Weaker fear that we will lose something.
If we lose wealth, it doesn’t matter:
And the rich are not always happy.

Only those of us are worthy of praise
Who helps the weak in difficult times.

Although we are the kings of nature, nevertheless
Insignificance amazes us.

Whatever your earthly path is marked by,
Be restrained in everything, especially in speech...

What to do? If you fall into a hole,
Don't waste your energy on swearing.

What to do, it takes from one flower
The snake has its bitter poison, the bee its honey.

What's the name? Only the name of the item
Think about what this name hides?

And cunning in the old days
She was similar in intelligence and valor.

Without a reason, only a wolf brings misfortune
Those people whose cattle are torn to pieces.
But man is not a wolf, not a creeping reptile,
He doesn't torture anyone without a reason.

A daughter is sinless when her mother is sinless.
The life of a mother is science for her daughter,
And the mother’s honesty is the guarantee of this.

...Fear those
To whom he did good, as if it were a sin.

It happens everywhere: darkness and gloom
People are being deprived of knowledge and intelligence.
Meanwhile, their differences of opinion, perhaps,
It would disappear from the glow of a small candle.

Maybe a hundred, maybe two hundred times
Your hand is stronger than your eyes.
But you will grab with your hand what is nearby,
Meanwhile, you take in the whole world with your gaze.
And the thought that is born in the hearts,
One hundred worlds can be reduced to dust.

In a strong union of husband and wife
Both sides must be equal.

After all, those who inhale the stench for many years,
Delicate odors can cause harm.

Truly the blows of the sage
Much better than the mercy of a fool.
The sage's poison often saves us,
And honey sometimes kills fools.

To everyone, so that pride passes us by,
There are a lot of injections to endure:

But before those who have humbled the flesh, they must
The face of the sun and the face of the moon bow down.

May retribution strike with disaster
Those who paid for friendship with enmity.
There is no other mirror for truth -
Only a heart that was inflamed with love.

Yes, blessed are those who have the power to learn
On someone's happiness or misfortune.

Make friends with a smart person, because a friend is a fool
Sometimes more dangerous than a smart enemy.

Someone else's soul is a mystery to know.

There are many words whose spelling is similar,
Although the content is completely different.

Try to bypass a dwelling where you are not welcome,
Find ways to where you are reputed to be gold.

For the heavy load called love,
The lover pays with his own blood.
Evil is vanity of vanities, and for good reason
From Knowledge comes Kindness!

And into the pit of your arrogance
Both people and animals fell evenly.

And in general the soul is close to the soul
Not only by understanding the language.

Sometimes he understands, oddly enough,
And a Turk native of Hindustan,
And maybe the Turk will never be understood
A man was born in his land.
After all, besides speech there is a language of trust,
By which people and animals are bound.

And yet the Truth is for those who believe,
He knocks like a traveler on locked doors.

And the heat of the day will not scorch you,
The one who is tempered in proud patience.

And we should always think:
Who are we running from, are we running where?
It is not our will to hide from ourselves,
You can’t even run away from God.

And I will repeat again for the umpteenth time:
Look for friends who are worthy of you!

And you, money-grubber, curb your agility:
After all, you can’t pour the whole river into a jug.

We know when the soul is dark,
Beauty is not worth a penny.
Some may be ugly, but still pleasant
The fact that his soul is pure, although not stately.

It is known: he does not grow thin in the flesh,
Who accompanies the lion on the hunt?

Another, who interprets the teaching dryly,
No more wise than the pilot of a fly.
And his speech that rolls off the tongue,
The stench is more than deep.
So, the stench is the lot of those of us,
Who has despised the fragrance of wise words.

When wise men teach a fool,
They throw the crops into salt licks,
And no matter how you darn - wider than yesterday,
Tomorrow there will be a hole of nonsense.

When we hold the object itself in our hands,
Why look for his obscure trail?

When people are oppressed by misfortunes,
They make frequent vows.
And then all the vows are forgotten,
When a little trouble recedes.

Who, angry, cannot control himself,
No potion will help!

Who seeks out the sin of others, those
God judges more strictly than those who commit sin.

Who has killed the temptation of pride in himself,
He is the king of the earth and the king of the blue sky.

Love should be something that delights us.
Love can give us countless joys.

I found my beginning in mother's love.
Blessed be this mother forever!

Love can give us speech,
Make them sing and doom them to silence!

Love is honest and that's why it
Given for the healing of the soul.

Human speech is a veil, and behind it
Sometimes a treasure, sometimes a snake's sting.
I’ll be more precise: behind every word is a treasure,
But the treasure that snakes guard.

Half of the human soul is foggy,
The other is guilty of sins.

We are pleased to look at beauty,
But it’s not the beauty that’s important, but the essence.
What is beauty? Unfortunately, it is instantaneous.
Only our essence is eternal and imperishable.

We know: human poverty of all
It can lead into temptation and sin.
And it’s not for you to judge, O rich man,
People exhausted by poverty.