‘The Sufi’s book is not of ink and letters; it is nothing but a heart white as snow’ (Mevlana Rumi, Mathnawi II.159)
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Peace, one and all…
Direct the Bounty of God
‘You have scattered your awareness in all directions,
and your vanities are not worth a bit of cabbage.
The root of every thorn
draws the water of your attention toward itself.
How will the water of your attention reach the fruit?
Cut through the evil roots, cut them away.
Direct the bounty of God to spirit and to insight,
not to the knotted and broken world outside’
(Mevlana Rumi, Masnavi V.1084-1086)
Ma’as salama,
Abdur Rahman
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April 23, 2008 at 3:08 pm and is filed under Chivalry, Learning to Talk, Learning to Listen, Muslim & Sufi Poetry, Muslim Chaplaincy, Our Spiritual Heritage, Shaykh Kabir Helminski, Sufism/Tasawwuf, The Wisdom of Mevlana.
April 25, 2008 at 4:18 am
Thank you for this. It really says a lot. It seems strange that we spend so little of our attention on what is most important to us. The devil must be really quite clever.
April 25, 2008 at 4:21 am
But we are getting smarter all the time.
April 25, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Salaams Mossy,
LOL! Indeed!
Abdur Rahman
April 27, 2008 at 1:30 am
I read this and got goosebumps!
wasalam
April 27, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Salaams Saha
I know what you mean!
Abdur Rahman