Rumi Quotes on God

Quotes

• Attributed to Rumi:

  “The lamps are different, but the Light is the same.”

• “The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”

  Timothy Freke, Rumi Wisdom: Daily Teachings from the Great Sufi Master (2000)

• “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)

• “Alas for this life so light, beware of this slumber so heavy, O soul seek the Beloved, O friend seek the Friend O watchman be wakeful; it behoves not a watchman to sleep.”

  A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 88, Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabriz (Nicholson)

• “Every moment the voice of Love is coming from left and right We are bound for heaven; who has a mind to sight-seeing?”

  A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 118, Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabriz (Nicholson)

• “Ah! O crow, give up this life and live anew! In view of God’s changes cast away your life! Choose the new, give up the old, For each single present year is better than three past.”

  A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 122 (Whinfield)

• “Jesus, son of Mary, went to heaven and his ass remained below, I remain on the earth but my spirit has flown to the sky.”

  A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 135, Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabriz (Nicholson)

• “Then think not lowly of thy heart, though lowly, For holy is it and there dwells the holy, God’s presence-chamber is the human breast, Ah! happy spirit with such Inmate blest.”

  A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 176, Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabriz (Falconer)

• “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)

• “Prize not at all life that has passed without love, Love is the water of life: receive it in thy heart and soul.”

  A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | pp. 288–9, Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabriz (Nicholson)

• “Reason is like an officer when the King appears; The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.”

  Masnavi | IV, Story 4 (tr. Whinfield)

• “If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.”

  Masnavi | VI, 3640 (ed. Fadiman and Frager, 1997)

• “Ah, me! so poor, can I declare that friend, who never had another friend his like,—none, therefore, who could know his soul?”

  Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient(1882) | "The Ineffable One", no. 493

• “O heart! weak follower of the weak, That thou shouldst traverse land and sea, In this far place that God to seek Who long ago had come to thee!”

  Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient(1882) | "Presence", no. 519 (Alger. Words ascribed to Rabia)

• “Whereas want of fidelity is shameful even in dogs, How can it be right in men? God Almighty himself makes boast of fidelity Saying 'Who is more faithful to his promise than we?'”

  A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 33 (Whinfield)

• “O indestructible Love! O divine minstrel Thou art both stay and refuge; a name equal to thee I have not found.”

  A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 78, Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabriz (Nicholson)

• “Thought is an arrow shot by God into the air How can it stay in the air? It returns to God.”

  A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 91 (Whinfield)

• “If you desire that God may be pleasing to you, Then look at Him with the eyes of those that love Him. Look not at that Beauty with your own eyes, Look at that Object of desire with His votaries’ eyes.”

  A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 99 (Whinfield)

• “Union exists beyond all thought and speech Between great Allah and the soul of each.”

  A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 137 (Whinfield)

• “My soul is grown weary of Pharaoh and his tyranny, I desire the light of the countenance of Moses , son of ʿImran.”

  A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 141, Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabriz (Nicholson)