Influential Past Teachers

Place of Birth
Balkh, Afghanistan

Foundation of Teaching
Devotion, Universality of Love, Oneness of God, reaching God through music, poetry and dance, Unity with the Divine

Example of Teaching
“Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul.”

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Rumi

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (Persian جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى‎), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), and more popularly in the English-speaking world simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Iranians, Turks, Afghans, Tajiks, and other Central Asian Muslims as well as the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy in the past seven centuries. Rumi’s importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic borders. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world’s languages and transposed into various formats. In 2007, he was described as the “most popular poet in America.”

Rumi’s works are written in Persian and his Mathnawi remains one of the purest literary glories of Persia, and one of the crowning glories of the Persian language. A Persian literary renaissance (in the 8th/9th century), alongside the development of Sufism, started in regions of Sistan, Khorāsān, and Transoxiana and by the 10th/11th century, it reinforced the Persian language as the preferred literary and cultural language in the Persian Islamic world. His original works are widely read today in their original language across the Persian-speaking world (Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and parts of Persian speaking Central Asia).Translations of his works are very popular in other countries. His poetry has influenced Persian literature as well as Urdu, Punjabi, Turkish and some other Iranic, Turkic and Indic languages written in Perso-Arabic script e.g. Pashto, Ottoman Turkish, Chagatai and Sindhi.

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Quotes

  1. “The soul lives there in the silent breath.”
  2. “Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul.”
  3. “Love calls - everywhere and always.”
  4. “Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
  5. “My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
  6. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
  7. “Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart.”
  8. “Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.”
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