01-28-2008, 01:37 PM
(Remember always a few words from Rumi's "Moses and the Shepherd".)
A sudden revelation came then to Moses. God's voice:
You have separated me from one of my own. Did you come as a Prophet to unite or to sever?
(Know that)
I have given each being
a separate and unique way of seeing and knowing and saying that knowledge.
What seems wrong to you is right for him.
What is poison to one is honey to someone else.
Purity and impurity, sloth and diligence in worship,
these mean nothing to me.
I am apart from all that.
Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another.
(The) Hindus do Hindu things. The Dravidian Muslims in India do what they do.
It's all praise, and it's all right.
(Remember)
It's not me that's glorified in acts of worship.
It's the worshippers!
I don't hear the words they say.
I look inside at the humility.
That broken -- open lowliness is the reality, not the language!
Forget phraseology!
I want burning, burning!
Be friends with your burning.
Burn up your thinking and your forms of expression!
(God still seeing Moses' arrogance and pride said
Moses, those who pay attention to ways of behaving and speaking are one sort.
Lovers who burn are another.
Don't scold the lover.
The "Wrong " way he talks is better that a hundred "Right" ways of others.
(Remember Always)
The Love-Religion has no code or doctrine --
ONLY GOD!
A sudden revelation came then to Moses. God's voice:
You have separated me from one of my own. Did you come as a Prophet to unite or to sever?
(Know that)
I have given each being
a separate and unique way of seeing and knowing and saying that knowledge.
What seems wrong to you is right for him.
What is poison to one is honey to someone else.
Purity and impurity, sloth and diligence in worship,
these mean nothing to me.
I am apart from all that.
Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another.
(The) Hindus do Hindu things. The Dravidian Muslims in India do what they do.
It's all praise, and it's all right.
(Remember)
It's not me that's glorified in acts of worship.
It's the worshippers!
I don't hear the words they say.
I look inside at the humility.
That broken -- open lowliness is the reality, not the language!
Forget phraseology!
I want burning, burning!
Be friends with your burning.
Burn up your thinking and your forms of expression!
(God still seeing Moses' arrogance and pride said
Moses, those who pay attention to ways of behaving and speaking are one sort.
Lovers who burn are another.
Don't scold the lover.
The "Wrong " way he talks is better that a hundred "Right" ways of others.
(Remember Always)
The Love-Religion has no code or doctrine --
ONLY GOD!