Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, and more popularly as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan.
In his works, the famous Persian poet and scholar also paid much attention to the celestial bodies. Reading his words, you begin to feel the urge to look up into the night sky.
Moon quotes Rumi gifted us with are especially poetic and meaningful. They create a magical atmosphere that does not disappear even after you finish reading the lines.
- Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your being.
- Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings… Leave and don’t look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you’re sometimes crescent, sometimes, full.
- At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.
- A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.
- A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe. What nine months of attention does for an embryo forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness.
- The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.
- Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets, the moon sets, but they are not gone.
