Mi-yeong’s friendship with Celine — Rumi’s mentor and caretaker — hints at some complicated history. “Early in K-Pop Demon ...

Saying, “Ever since I was parted from the reed-bed, my lament has caused man and woman to moan. I want a bosom torn by severance, that I may unfold the pain of love-desire. Everyone who is left far ...

When anxiety fills me, and I feel disconnected from my essence—or when I’m simply out of love—I turn to Rumi. Rumi didn’t start out as the 13th century Persian poet we all cherish today. He was a ...

He helps answer the questions that bewilder us. He dresses experiences with words. He makes it easier for us to understand matters of the heart, the mind, and the soul. Before delving into his poems, ...

Today is Sufi mystic and poet Rumi's birth anniversary. While he came into this world 800 years ago, writings have stood the test of time. Rumi writing's connected women to the divinity, a rarity for ...

What do one of Brad Pitt’s tattoos and the name of Beyonce’s second daughter have in common? Both are inspired by the 13th-century Sufi mystic and poet Muhammad Balkhi, usually known as Rumi. That’s ...

The Aga Khan Museum's newest exhibition, Rumi: A Visual Journey Through the Life and Legacy of a Sufi Mystic, opens May 13 and is a glorious ode to one of the most revered poets and sufi mystics in ...

God loves human beings because of the fullness of the divine beauty that they display and their resultant ability to recognize God's beauty. God then asks, as any lover would, that they love him in ...

The Cowboy Carter artist shares three children, twins Rumi and Sir, and daughter Blue Ivy, with husband Jay-Z Kayla Grant is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her ...

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