Discourses of Rumi

122 V DISCOURSES OF RUMIwrongs and evils they commit are like snow andice piled together as high as a mountain. Whenthoughts of the resurrection come to us, like thesun it melts those snows of sinfulness as the sun inthe heaven melts anything hard. How can thesummer sun come and leave the snow and ice ofwinter intact? Seeing their snow and ice piledheap upon heap is proof that the sun has notshone upon them.Although God has promised that all good andevil will be rewarded justly on the last day, yet asample of this comes to pass every moment and inevery instant. If happiness enters into someone’sheart, that is his or her reward for making anotherhappy. If they become sorrowful, it is becausethey have brought sorrow to another. These aregifts from the other world and tokens of that dayof rewards, so that by these little things we maycome to understand those great matters, just as ahandful of corn is offered as a token of the wholeheap.The Prophet, for all his majesty and greatness,one night felt pain in his hand. It was revealed tohim that this pain was the effect of a pain in the