Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi
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The name Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi stands for love and ecstatic flight into the infinite. Rumi is one of the great spiritual masters and poetical geniuses of mankind and was the founder of the Mevlevi Sufi order, a leading mystical brotherhood of Islam.
“Love is the water of eternal life, cures every woe;
Gardens where lovers re-unite drive away all sorrow.
They say there is a window that opens from heart to heart;
If there are no walls, there is no need for any window.”
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“To be a Sufi, forget the past, put it all away;
Turn a brand new page, rescue your being from yesterday;
Become a child of the present age, of youth, of wisdom,
Never leave this bountiful moment, this eternal day.”
translation by Prof. Talat Halman
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