277 Quotes About Rumi

The Sufi‘s book is not composed of ink and letters: It is naught but a heart white as snow. The scholar‘s provisions are the marks of the pen. What are the Sufi‘s provisions? The footprints of the saints. – Rumi (p. 131)

I am another you, you are another me.

It is not our prayer and worship of God that makes God love us; rather, it’s God’s unconditional love for us that results in our worship. We do not pray for the love of God, but from the love of God. God’s power inspires and allows us to pray, and it’s that same divine power that we are calling to in prayer. As Rumi says, “I am a mountain. You call, I echo.

لا تنزعج كثيرًا إذا ما انقلبت حياتك،رأسًا على عَقِبْ؛فمن أدراك أن ما تظنه رأسًا،أفضل لك من "العقِب" الذي تتوقاه؟!

يُقلِّب الله قلبك من حال إلى حال،ويعلمك بواسطة هذه النقائض؛ليصير لك جناحان تطير بهما،لا واحد فقط.

يُرسل الله رحمته في ذروة لحظات اليأس.لا تنس أن أغزر المطر؛يتنزَّل من أحلك السُحُب.

حيث يوجد الحُطام؛ثمة أمل في العثور على كنز بين البقايا.

لا ترفع صوتك، واصدح بكلماتك؛فإن الزهور يُنبتها الغيث، لا الرعد.

Just as a stone that is dropped anywhere in a lake creates ripples that reach across the entire body of water, when one of us is suffering, that pain ripples through all of existence. As Rumi said, “The differences are just illusion and vanity. Sunlight looks slightly different on this wall than it does on that wall and a lot different on this other one but it is still one light.