Shams-e-Tabrīzī (or Shams al-Din Mohammad, literally: Sun of Islam; 1185–1248) was an Iranian Sufi mystic born in the city of Tabriz in Iranian Azerbaijan. He introduced Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi, usually known as Rumi in the West, to Islamic mysticism, for which he was immortalized in Rumi's poetry collection Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i ("The Works of Shams of Tabriz"). Shams lived together with Rumi in Konya, in present-day Turkey, for several years, and is also known to have traveled to Damascus in present-day Syria.
Me & Rumi (2004)
- Maqalat-i Shams-i Tabrizi [Discourse of Shams-i Tabrīzī] as translated and annotated by William C. Chittick (2004)
- There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.
- Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.
- The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.
- Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.
- Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.
- You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.
- He said The Sufi is the son of the moment.
- When you oppose the shaykh, it's like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?
He says, So my master will suffer loss.
- Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].