Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
Molana Jalal-e din Mohammad Balkhi, commonly known as Rumi, was a Persian mystic of Islam, a Sufi. His doctrine advocates unlimited tolerance, positive reasoning, goodness, charity and awareness through love. His peaceful and tolerant teaching has appealed to men and women of all sects and creeds. As a love poet, he has no peer:
My Mother is Love My Father is Love
My Prophet is Love My God is Love
I am a child of Love I have come only to speak of Love
Rumi was born on 30th of September 1207 in Balkh in today’s Afghanistan, then within the domains of the Persian Empire, and died on 17 December 1273 in Konya, in present-day Turkey, where he spent many years of his life. His body was laid to rest beside his father and a splendid shrine was erected there, which every year attracts a large number of pilgrims from all parts of the Muslim and non-Muslim world.
Happy Birthday Rumi :)
Ya Haqq!
September 28, 2007 at 6:45 pm
I love Rumi so much. Spc two pieces of his poems:
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -Nobody- too?
Then there’s pair of us guiding us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary -to be- Somebody !!!
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What is to be done, O Moslems? for I do not recognise myself.
I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Moslem.
I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea;
I am not of Nature’s mint, nor of the circling heaven.
I am not of earth, nor of water, nor of air, nor of fire;
I am not of the empyrean, nor of the dust, nor of existence, nor of entity.
I am not of India, nor of China, nor of Bulgaria, nor of Saqsin
I am not of the kingdom of Iraqian, nor of the country of Khorasan
I am not of this world, nor of the next, nor of Paradise, nor of Hell
I am not of Adam, nor of Eve, nor of Eden and Rizwan.
My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless..
September 28, 2007 at 7:43 pm
How beautiful, dear Sister :) I wanted to include a hundred Rumi poems, but there are many Rumi links in the blogroll for those interested to find them all :)
Ya Haqq!
September 29, 2007 at 1:52 am
Happy Birthday Rumi!
September 29, 2007 at 5:27 am
Rumi be praised!
May the forces be around us.
September 29, 2007 at 11:44 am
Thank for reminding us of the birthday of Hz Mawlana.
September 29, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Assalamu alaikum,
A great anniversary!
“There are wild wandering Sufis
called qalandars,
who are constantly tickled with life.
It’s scandalous how they love and laugh
at any small event.
People gossip about them, and that
makes them deft in their cunning,
but really a great God-wrestling goes on
inside these wanderers, a flood of sunlight
that’s drunk with the whole thing…”
– Rumi
Wassalamu alaikum
September 29, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück, Maulana ;) (He understands me now…)
September 30, 2007 at 9:03 am
[...] 30th, 2007 by chaiwala September 30th is the birthday of Hz Mawlana Rumi. The excellent Darvish blog has a nice reminder too. Here’s a poem form the Diwan Shams-e-Tabrizi which offers an [...]
September 30, 2007 at 11:21 am
Salaams Baba Darvish,
Thank you for reminding us all.
Ya Hazret-i Mevlana Hakk Dost!
Abdur Rahman, a lover of Rumi
September 30, 2007 at 11:31 am
[...] birthday (may Allah sanctify his secret)! As Baba Darvish (aka Irving bhai) rightly observes, on September 30th 1207 Mevlana Rumi was born in Balkh (modern day [...]
September 30, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Rumi is one my favorite poets, but I had no idea it was his birthday! Thanks for reminding us :)
October 4, 2007 at 2:57 am
Subhanallah !! How magical it would’ve been to be alive during Mawlana Rumi’s days
The Root of the Root of Your Self
Don’t go away, come near.
Don’t be faithless, be faithful.
Find the antidote in the venom.
Come to the root of the root of yourself.
- Love is indeed a Strange Stranger – lol :))
October 29, 2007 at 3:27 pm
بشنو از نی چون حکایت میکند از جدایی ها حکایت می کند
از نیستان تا مرا ببریده اند از نفیرم مردو زن نالیده اند
i am very glad for this is molana says persian.and this is my lovefor all of my life