“The craft of the physician is to remove the cause of illness, not…” — Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

“The craft of the physician is to remove the cause of illness, not merely to treat the symptoms.”

Using healing as an image for addressing the source rather than the surface of a problem · Fihi ma fihi (prose discourse; translation varies)

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Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

About Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

30 September 1207–17 December 1273

Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī, known in much of the world as Rumi, was born on 30 September 1207 and died on 17 December 1273. Few poets have crossed linguistic, religious, and national boundaries as fully as he has. In Persian literary history he is often called Mawlānā, “our master,” and in the…

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