Rumi Quotes on Death
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was a thirteenth-century Persian poet, jurist, and Sufi mystic, born in what is now Afghanistan and settling at Konya in Anatolia. This page collects quotes attributed to Rumi on the topic of death, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Rumi:
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
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“Anyone in whom the troublemaking self has died, sun and cloud obey. As his heart is afire with knowledge and love, the sun cannot burn him.”
Masnavi | I, 3004-5 (tr. Helminski, 1990) -
“For love of our Almighty God, the Lord of all, Who would not die; a stock, a block, we needs must call.”
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 26 (Redhouse) -
“The generous die but their kindness remains, O happy he who drove this chariot (of kindness), The unjust die and their injustice remains, Alas for the soul that commits deceit and fraud.”
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 196 -
“Argue not from the condition of common men, Stumble not at severity and mercy; For mercy and severity, joy and sorrow are transient And transient things die; God is heir of all.”
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 237 (Whinfield)