Rumi
Rumi was a thirteenth-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic, born in present-day Afghanistan.
His poetry explores divine love, spiritual longing, and union with God, often through ecstatic verse and parables.
Rumi founded the Mevlevi Order, whose practitioners are known as whirling dervishes.
His works, especially the *Masnavi*, remain widely read and quoted: as Rumi said, "The wound is the place where the Light enters you".
Muslim spiritual seeker
- PersianOf or from Iran
- mysticalOf hidden spiritual significance
- versesLines of poetry
- coupletsPaired rhyming verse lines
quatrains · lyrical · ecstatic · spiritual poetry · beloved · longing · separation · union
Rotating swiftly in place
- dervishSufi order member
- tariqaSufi spiritual brotherhood
- meditationFocused attention practice
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
ecstasy · trance · spiritual practice · mysticism · Islam · sheikh · disciple · prayer
Intense fond attachment
- soulInnermost animating essence
- divineOf or from gods
- onenessState of being unified
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
ego · annihilation · fana · transcendence · unity · heart · presence · awakening
Repeated words, verbatim
- inspirationalArousing drive or hope
- tattooPermanent dermal design
- calligraphyOrnamental handwriting art
- InstagramPhoto-sharing social platform
self-help · New Age · translations · misattributed · popularized · Western · commercialized · posters
Sufi
Muslim spiritual seeker
couplets · quatrains · lyrical · ecstatic · spiritual poetry · beloved · longing · separation · union
whirling
Rotating swiftly in place
- dervishSufi order member
- tariqaSufi spiritual brotherhood
- meditationFocused attention practice
devotion · ecstasy · trance · spiritual practice · mysticism · Islam · sheikh · disciple · prayer · remembrance
love
Intense fond attachment
surrender · ego · annihilation · fana · transcendence · unity · heart · presence · awakening · consciousness
quotes
Repeated words, verbatim
- inspirationalArousing drive or hope
- tattooPermanent dermal design
- calligraphyOrnamental handwriting art
Instagram · self-help · New Age · translations · misattributed · popularized · Western · commercialized · posters · greeting cards
- Famous TurksErdogan, Suleiman
- Muslim WritersKhaled Hosseini, Omar Khayyam, Attar, Khalil Gibran, Adonis
- Sufismtariqa, fana, sufi, Sufism, dervish
- Islamic PoetsHafiz, Omar Khayyam, Khayyam, Attar, Adonis
- Islamic ThinkersAvicenna, Ibn Taymiyyah, Attar, Sufis
- Persian PoetsOmar Khayyam, Attar
RumiMarquis de Sade
Writer whose name became perversion
Friedrich Nietzsche · Thomas Hobbes · Bertrand Russell · Ayn Rand · Karl Marx
RumiCharles Bukowski
Samuel Beckett · Marquis de Sade · Jonathan Swift · Thomas Hardy · Dorothy Parker
RumiIbn Taymiyyah