Discourses of Rumi

FIHI MA FIHI V 139beauty, this appears ugly. Yet others are notaffected this way, they are perfectly happy in theirexisting state, saying, “This is absolutely fine.”God will grant you your heart’s desire—whereyour ambition is, that will be yours. “The birdflies with its wings, the believers fly with theiraspiration.”There are three kinds of creatures. First thereare angels, who are pure spiritual conscience.Worship, service and the remembrance of God aretheir nature and their food. They eat and liveupon that essence. Like fish in the water, theirmattress and pillow are the water. Angels are pureand free of lust, so what favor do they gain by notyielding to such desires? Since they are free ofthese things, they have no struggle against them.If they obey God’s will it is not counted as obedience,for this is their nature, and they cannot beotherwise.Second are the beasts who are pure sensuality,having no spiritual conscience to restrain them.They too are under no burden of obligation.Lastly, there remains the poor human being,who is a compound of spiritual conscience and