Rumi Quotes

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

بحثت عن الروح في البحر
ووجدت المرجان هناك
وتحت الرغوة
كان كل المحيط يرقد عاريا لأجلي
في ليل قلبي وعلى طول الطريق الضيق
شعرت بالضوء
ارض أبدية من النهار

"الحقيقة أن الجاذب واحدٌ، لكنه يتراءى متعددًأ. ألا ترى أن الإنسان تستبد به مئة من الرغائب المختلفة؟ - يقول: "أريد تتماج، أريد بورك، أريد حلوى، أريد فطائر مقلية، أريد فاكهة، أريد رطبًأ." يعدّد هذه الأشياء ويسمّيها واحدًا واحدًا، لكن أصلها جميعًا شئ واحد، أصلها الجوعُ؛ وذلك شئ واحد. ألا ترى كيف أنه عندما يشبع من واحد منها، يقول: "لا ضرورة لشئ من هذه الأشياء؟

"Eblis said, "No man who thinks ill, will hear the truth despite a hundred signs.
When one who fantasises is presented with reason his fantasies increase.
When one talks to such a person, their words become the very cause of that person's fantasy. The crusader's sword is a tool for a thief.
So the response to him is silence and peace; to talk with an idiot is insanity. — Mathnawi-ye ma'nawi II 2714–17

With love you don’t bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor any 'where' in that place.

"Ripened Fruit

Do you remember how you came into existence?
You may not remember
because you arrived a little drunk.
Let me give you a hint:
Let go off your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!

It is difficult to speak to your unripeness.
You may still be in your springtime,
unaware that autumn exists.
This world is a tree to which we cling — —
we, the half-ripe fruit upon it.

The immature fruit clings tightly to the branch
because, not yet ripe, it's unfit for the palace.
When fruits become ripe, sweet, and juicy,
then, biting their lips,
they loosen their hold.

When the mouth has been sweetened by felicity,
the kingdom of the world loses it's appeal.
To be tightly attached to the world is immaturity.
As long as you're an embryo,
all you think about is sipping blood.

There's more to be said,
but let the Holy Spirit tell it.
You may even tell it to your own ear.
Neither I, nor some other "I," needs to tell you,
you who are also I.

Just as when you fall asleep,
you leave the presence of yourself
to enter another presence of yourself.
You hear something from yourself
and imagine that someone else
has secretly spoken to you in a dream.
But you are not a single "you,"
my friend — — you are the wide sky and the deep sea.
Your awesome "You," which is nine hundredfold,
is where a hundred of your you's will drown."

I could not have known
what love is if I had never

felt this longing. Anything
done to excess becomes

boring, except this overflow
that moves toward you.

I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.

Imagine a man selling his donkey
to be with Jesus.

Now imagine him selling Jesus
to get a ride on a donkey.
This does happen.

Jesus can transform a drunk into gold.
If the drunk is already golden,
he can be changed to pure diamond.
If already that, he can become the circling
planets, Jupiter, Venus, the moon.

Never think that you are worthless.
God has paid an enormous amount for you,
and the gifts keep arriving.

You are not
a drop in ocean
you are the entire ocean
in a drop .
تو قطره ای در اقیانوس نیستی ،
تو تمام اقیانوسی در یک قطره .

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon?

Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.

Come with me while the wine shop is still open.
We are dizzy with meeting each other.