Discourses of Rumi

FIHI MA FIHI V 99saint is surely the wronged party since they carryGod’s jewel. The saint is consumed in God, andtherefore their actions are God’s actions. Wewouldn’t call God a wrongdoer.The Prophet raided, killed and spilled blood,but the unbelievers were the wrongdoers, andMohammed was wronged. For example, a westernerlives in the West. An oriental comes to visit.The westerner is a stranger to the oriental, butwho is the real stranger? Is not the oriental astranger to the entire western world?Still, this whole world is but a house, no more.Whether we go from this room to that room orfrom this corner to that corner, are we still not inthe same house? But the saints who possess God’sjewel have left this house. They have gonebeyond. Mohammed said, “Islam began astranger and will return a stranger as it began.”Yet is not this world the real stranger? Therefore,when the Prophet was defeated he was thewronged party, and when he defeated his enemies,he was still the wronged party. For in both caseshe was in the right, and the wronged party is theone who is in the right.