Rumi مولانا جلالالدین
Sufi poet · Konya, Anatolia · 1207–1273
A Sufi poet born in Balkh, in what is now Afghanistan, who fled the Mongols and settled in Anatolia. After meeting and losing the wandering dervish Shams, he poured out poems.
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c. 1260
Listen to this reed flute, how it complains, how it tells the tale of separations: ever since they cut me from the reed bed, men and women have wept at my cry.
بشنو این نی چون شکایت می کند
از جداییها حکایت می کند
کز نیستان تا مرا ببریده اند
در نفیرم مرد و زن نالیده اندMasnavi, the opening
c. 1260
Anyone who is left far from his own root keeps seeking the days when he was joined to it.
هر کسی کو دور ماند از اصل خویش
باز جوید روزگار وصل خویشMasnavi, the opening
13th century · Spoken by the reed flute
Each became my friend out of his own surmise; none sought out the secrets within me.
هرکسی از ظن خود شد یار من
از درون من نجست اسرار منMasnavi, the opening of book 1
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