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Rumi
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“Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1372:A1:168 (tr. John Baldock, 2005)
“We have a way from this visible world to the Unseen, for we are the companions of religion's messenger. We have a way from the house to the garden, we are the neighbor of the cypress and jasmine. Every day we come to the garden and see a hundred blossoms. In order to scatter them among the lovers, we will our robes to overflowing... Behold our words! They are the fragrance of those roses--we are the rosebush of certainty's rosegarden.”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reynold A. Nicholson, Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz (Cambridge UP, 1898)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“William Falconer, in The Asiatic Journal (1840) p. 32, (1841) p. 238, (1842) p. 102 · Fraser's Magazine (April 1855) pp. 374–5”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Edward Henry Whinfield, Masnavi I Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (1898)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reynold A. Nicholson, The Mystics of Islam (1914)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reynold A. Nicholson, Rumi: Poet And Mystic (George Allen and Unwin, 1950)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“William C. Chittick, The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (1983)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Camille and Kabir Helminski, Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance (1990)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Camille and Kabir Helminski, Jewels of Remembrance: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance (1996)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi (HarperCollins, 1995)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“James Fadiman and Robert Frager, Essential Sufism (HarperSanFrancisco, 1997)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fatemeh Keshavarz, Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1998)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shahram Shiva, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi (Jain Publishing, 1999)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Andrew Harvey, Teachings of Rumi (Shambhala, 1999)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“John Baldock, The Essence of Rumi (London: Arcturus, 2005)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ibrahim Gamard and Rawan Farhadi, The Quatrains of Rumi (2008)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some Hindoos were exhibiting an elephant in a dark room, and many people collected to see it. But as the place was too dark to permit them to see the elephant, they all felt it with their hands, to gain an idea of what it was like. One felt its trunk, and declared that the beast resembled a water-pipe; another felt its ear, and said it must be a large fan; another its leg, and thought it must be a pillar; another felt its back, and declared the beast must be like a great throne. According to the part which each felt, he gave a different description of the animal. One, as it were, called it "Dal," and another "Alif.”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: III, Story 5 (tr. E. H. Whinfield, 1898)