Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī — a remark

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“I am a cobbler: leather is plentiful, but I cut and stitch according to the size of the foot.”

Original: من کفشگرم: چرم بسیار است، اما بر اندازه پا می‌برم و می‌دوزم. — Teaching, for Rumi, is fitted to the listener rather than poured out at full measure. · Fihi Ma Fihi, Discourse 25 (Persian)

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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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“When has religion ever been one? Here each faith has a different desire. Unity belongs to the resurrection, when all eyes fix on one place.”

Original: کی دین یکی بوده است؟ اینجا هر دینی را خواهشی دیگر است. یکی شدن در قیامت ممکن است که همه چشم بر یک جا نهند. — Rumi refuses a political shortcut to oneness while keeping a last horizon of shared gaze. · Fihi Ma Fihi, Discourse 7 (Persian)

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