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Since you're not spiritually perfect,
don't open a shop on your own.
Be pliant to the hand,
so you may become leavened and kneaded like dough.
Listen to the Divine command, "Keep silence."
Be mute.
Since you haven't become the tongue of God,
be an ear.
If you do speak,
let it be to ask for explanations:
speak as a humble beggar
at the hand of the spiritually great.
Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Mathnawi II, 3455-7
don't open a shop on your own.
Be pliant to the hand,
so you may become leavened and kneaded like dough.
Listen to the Divine command, "Keep silence."
Be mute.
Since you haven't become the tongue of God,
be an ear.
If you do speak,
let it be to ask for explanations:
speak as a humble beggar
at the hand of the spiritually great.
Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Mathnawi II, 3455-7
posted by Student at 7:40 AM
1 Comments:
If only we in America could hear more of the sweet side of Islam, but alas, all we hear of is swords and death,misery and blood. So sad. I believe that the biggest majority of Moslems want peace and prosperity and a pleasant pursuit of life.
groundhogger
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