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CHECKMATE
HOW WILL YOU IMPRESS GOD?
What is bounty without a beggar? Generosity without a guest?
Be beggar and guest; for beauty is seeking a mirror,
water is crying for a thirsty man.
Hopelessness and need are a tasteful bezel for that ruby. Your
poverty is a Burak'; don't be a coffin riding on other
men's shoulders.
Thank God you hadn't the means or you may have been a
Pharaoh. The prayer of Moses was, “Lord, I am in need of Thee!”
The Way of Moses is all hopelessness and need and it is the only way
to God.
when has hopelessness ever
failed you?
Joseph's path leads into the pit; don't flee across the chessboard of this world, for it is His game and we are checkmate!
Hunger makes stale bread more delicious than dessert
Your dicomfort is spiritual indigestion;
seek hunger
and passion
and need!
A mouse is a nibbler. God gave him mind in proportion to his
needs. Without need God gives nothing.
How will you impress God? You are a hundred thousand dinars
in His debt!
A beggar shows his blindness and palsy, he does not say,
“Give me bread, O, people! I am a rich man with
granaries and palaces!"
Bring a hundred sacks of gold and God will say, "Bring the heart."
And if you bring a dead heart carried like a coffin on your
shoulders, God will say, "O, cheat! Is this a graveyard?
Bring the live heart! Bring the live heart!”
If you haven't any knowledge and only opinions, Have good opinions about God.
This is the way.
If you can only crawl, crawl to Him.
If you cannot pray sincerely, offer your dry, hypocritical,
agnostic prayer; for God in His mercy accepts bad coin.
If you have a hundred doubts of God, make them into ninety nine
doubts. This is the way.
0, Seeker! Though you have broken your vows a hundred times,
come again! come again! For God has said, “Though you
are on high or in the pit consider me, for I am the Way."
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Jalalu-'d-Din Rumi, the greatest mystical poet of any age, was born at Balkh, in 1207 a.d., and was of an illustrious descent. His mother was of a princely house ; his father, Bahau-'d-Din Veled, was a descendant of the Kalif Abu Bakr. Among his spiritual advisers was Shamsi-'d-Din of Tabriz, who gained such an influence over the poet that Rumi adopted his name as his takhallus, or poetical Nom de plume, under which he wrote his Divan or lyrical odes. Rumi died at Konia, December 17, 1273, and was buried in his father's mausoleum at Konia. The name Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi stands for love and ecstatic flight into the infinite. Rumi is one of the greatest spiritual masters and poetical geniuses of mankind and was the founder of the Mevlevi Sufi Order.
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Voice : The Seeker
Poetry : by Rumi
Translation: English
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