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Discourses of Rumi

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144 V DISCOURSES OF RUMIeven though It has none. Through persecutionand opposition, the saints become known andadmired.“With their mouths, the unbelievers try to extinguish theLight <strong>of</strong> God.But God will perfect His Light through their adversity.”God chastises some people through wealth,gold and rulership, for Soul flees from such possessions.Shams saw a prince riding in Arabia, onhis brow the illumination <strong>of</strong> the prophets andsaints. Shams said, “Glory be to God who chastisesHis servants by means <strong>of</strong> affluence!”

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