Quote by Jalal ad-Din Rumi: “The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

Pain and hardship are not just things to survive — they are the very openings through which understanding, growth, and grace can reach you. Your broken places are not failures; they are where transformation begins.

Rumi composed his poetry in Konya, in present-day Turkey, during the height of the Mongol conquests that were reshaping the Islamic world. The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum was under enormous pressure, and Rumi's Sufi brotherhood offered a spiritual refuge centred on love rather than war.

Persian Sufi poet and Islamic scholar born in 1207 in present-day Afghanistan, whose works are among the most widely read poetry in the world. His masterpiece, the Masnavi, is a vast spiritual poem exploring love, loss, and union with the divine.