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Rumi was born to Persian parents, [35] [12] [13] [36] in Balkh, [37] modern-day Afghanistan or Wakhsh, [4] a village on the East bank of the Wakhsh River known as Sangtuda in present-day Tajikistan. [4] The area, culturally adjacent to Balkh, is where Mawlânâ's father, Bahâ' uddîn Walad, was a preacher and jurist. [4]
Jun 19, 2024 · Rūmī (born c. September 30, 1207, Balkh [now in Afghanistan]—died December 17, 1273, Konya [now in Turkey]) was the greatest Sufi mystic and poet in the Persian language, famous for his lyrics and for his didactic epic Mas̄navī-yi Maʿnavī (“Spiritual Couplets”), which widely influenced mystical thought and literature throughout the ...
2. ‘ I Am Thine and Thou Art Mine ’. ‘Eternal Life is gained. by utter abandonment of one’s own life …’. This is one of the shortest of Rumi’s best poems. The ‘Thou’ whom he addresses is God, so this appears to be a love poem but is actually a poem of spiritual love and mutual devotion. Indeed, Rumi uses the idea of the ...
2536 quotes from Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi): '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.', 'Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.', and 'The wound is the place where the Light ...
Sufi mystic Jalal al-Din Rumi was born Jalal al-Din Mohammad-e Balkhi on the edge of the Persian Empire, in Balkh in modern-day Afghanistan (though another birthplace in Tajikistan is also claimed). The son of Baha’ al-Din-e Valad, a noted scholar and theologian, Rumi’s family fled the Mongols, settling in Samarkand and then Anatolia. In 1224 Rumi married Gauhar Khatun, with whom he had ...
Rumi – Sufi Poet of East and West. A statue of Jalaluddin Rumi, founder of the Order of the Whirling Dervishes, in Izmir, Turkey. The 13th century Afghan-born Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273) is one of the best-selling poets today in the West. His lofty, feel-good verses on the power and virtues of 'love' are embraced by many for their poignancy ...
1207 –. 1273. Read poems by this poet. Mowlānā Jalāloddin Balkhi, known in Persia as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī and in the West as Rumi, was born on September 30, 1207, in Balkh Province, Afghanistan, on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire. Rumi descended from a long line of Islamic jurists, theologians, and mystics, including his ...
May 25, 2020 · Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (also given as Jalal ad-did Muhammad Balkhi, best known as Rumi, l. 1207-1273 CE) was a Persian Islamic theologian and scholar but became famous as a mystical poet whose work focuses on the opportunity for a meaningful and elevated life through personal knowledge and love of God. He was a devout Sunni Muslim and, even ...
Rumi: The Path of Love, by Manuela Dunn Mascetti (Editor) Camille & Kabir Helminski, ( 4 November, 1999) Element Books Ltd. Hush, Don’t Say Anything to God : Passionate Poems of Rumi Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Shahram Shiva,s ( 1 October, 1999) Jain Publishing Company. Look!
Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273), also called by the honorific Mawlana (Our Master), is a jurist, poet and one of the leading luminaries of Sufism. His masterpiece, the Masnavi-ye Manavi (Spiritual Couplets), is a didactic epic that is famous for his lyrics, which dives deep into the heart of the Islamic tradition with an outlook of love, tenderness, justice, compassion and God’s mercy.
