Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (Persian Muslim Mystic)

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (1207–73,) better known as Rūmī, was a Persian poet and Sūfī mystic. He is often referred to as Mevlānā, meaning “Our Guide.”

Rūmī was born north of the Amu Darya (Oxus) River, in Persian-speaking Tajikistan or Afghanistan, from where Rūmī’s family fled a Mongol annexation. They settled in Konya, then the capital city of the Seljuk Empire, now in Turkey. Rūmī’s father was a practicing mystic who preached to devout disciples in Persian.

Rūmī was sent to study in the highly regarded Arabic-speaking madrasa schools of Damascus and Aleppo and returned to Konya in his thirties to take on his late father’s position as an Islāmic cleric and legal scholar.

Rūmī remained in Konya for the rest of his life. He founded the Mevlevi Sūfī order, which survives to this day. His followers, the whirling dervishes, lose themselves in trance and dance, occasionally spinning like tops for hours on end. Rūmī’s great poetic works are the Masnavi or “spiritual couplets” and the Divan, a compendium of thousands of lyric poems.

Rūmī is respected as an icon not only of the Islāmic civilization (or of Afghan, Iranian, Tajik, or Turkish heritage,) but also of the global culture. Rūmī’s poetry and religious writings are among the most beloved and respected in Islām and elsewhere. The Mevlāna Museum in Konya, consisting of Rūmī’s mausoleum and the dervish lodge (Dergah,) is Turkey’s second most-visited tourist attraction after Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace.

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Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Wisdom, Desire

Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah did. It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Action

A road might end at a single house, but it’s not love’s road. Love is a river. Drink from it.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

If you want money more than anything, You’ll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you’ll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: whatever you love, you are.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love: We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Courage, Growth

The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Action

Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please, universal soul, practice some song, or something, through me.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

No prayer is complete without presence.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Love, Prayer

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Courage, Challenges

Beware! Don’t allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God’s forgiveness.’
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: God, Action

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

I died a mineral, and became a plant.
I died a plant and rose an animal.
I died an animal and I was man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don’t abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Knowledge, Courage, Growth

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don’t you?
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Patience is the key to joy.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Joy, Patience, Wisdom

Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Love

Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening. The business of love is to make that window in the heart, for the breast is illumined by the beauty of the Beloved. Gaze incessantly on the face of the Beloved! Listen, this is in your power, my friend.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

You think the shadow is the substance.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Wisdom, Truth

Be like melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Brother stand the pain;Escape the poison of your impulses.The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do.Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun.Turn away from the cave of your sleeping.That way a thorn expands to a rose.A particular glows with the universal.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Growth, Beauty, Courage

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Enthusiasm

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you … this turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

You have forgotten the One
who doesn’t care about ownership,
who doesn’t try to turn a profit
from every human exchange.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

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