Rumi Quotes About Poverty

• Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.

  Rumi

  Teacher, Night, Lessons

• Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

  Rumi

  Self, Greed, Desire

  "Essential Sufism". Book by James Fadiman and Robert Frager, 1997.

• When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Regret, Confused

• Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Blessed, Islamic

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