Rumi Quotes About Animals

• Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Real, Islamic

• I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

  Rumi

  Death, Wisdom, Fear

  Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, Jal?l al-D?n R?m? (Maulana), Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (2001). “Selected Poems of Rumi”, p.43, Courier Corporation

• We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

  Rumi

  Spring, Animal, Plant Life

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.155, Penguin UK

• Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

  Rumi

  Nature, Animal, Desire

• He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

  Rumi

  Angel, Animal, Lust

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

• It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him.

  Rumi

  Animal, Intelligent, Purpose

• For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.

  Rumi

  Pain, Ocean, Animal

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