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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
    Rumi

  • #2
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    Rumi

  • #3
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The minute I heard my first love story,
    I started looking for you, not knowing
    how blind that was.
    Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
    They're in each other all along.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

  • #4
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    Rumi

  • #5
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    Rumi

  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
    Rumi

  • #8
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
    Rumi

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    Rumi

  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #11
    Alphonse de Lamartine
    “If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?”
    Alphonse de Lamartine, History of Turkey

  • #12
    “ما يصيب المسلم من نصب ولا وصب ولا همّ ولا حزن ولا أذى ولا غمّ - حتى الشوكة يشاكها - إلا كفّر الله بها مِن خطاياه
    No fatigue, disease, sorrow, sadness, hurt or distress befalls a Muslim - not even the prick he receives from a thorn - except that Allah expiates some of his sins because of it. (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 70, #545)”
    Anonymous

  • #13
    Thomas Carlyle
    “The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.”
    Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

  • #14
    William Montgomery Watt
    “His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad”
    William Montgomery Watt, Muhammad at Mecca



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