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Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi)


Born
in Balkh, Khwarazmian Empire, Afghanistan
August 19, 1207

Died
November 12, 1273

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Sufism inspired writings of Persian poet and mystic Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi; these writings express the longing of the soul for union with the divine.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī - also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Mevlânâ/Mawlānā (مولانا, "our master"), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (مولوی, "my master") and more popularly simply as Rumi - was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian and Sufi mystic who lived in Konya, a city of Ottoman Empire (Today's Turkey). His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages, and he has been described as the most popular poet and the best-selling poet in the United States.

His poetry has influenced Persian literature, but also Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Azerba
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Quotes by Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi)  (?)
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“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.”
Rumi

“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.”
Rumi

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
Rumi

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