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Discourses of Rumi

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162 V DISCOURSES OF RUMI<strong>Rumi</strong> answered: That isn’t possible. If thiswere so, then both would be masters. Now youmust struggle to find the inward light, to escapeand be secure from this fire <strong>of</strong> confusions. Whenyou acquire such an inward light, all the desires <strong>of</strong>this world such as rank, honor, and title passacross your inward heart like a lightning-flash.With worldlings, the rewards <strong>of</strong> the unseen worldsuch as the presence <strong>of</strong> God and yearning for theworld <strong>of</strong> the saints’ shine upon their hearts for amoment and then pass like a lightning-flash.Therefore it is rank, honor and title they reallyseek. However, the people <strong>of</strong> God become whollyGod’s, their faces are turned to God. They arepreoccupied with and absorbed in God. Worldlypassions, like the lust <strong>of</strong> an impotent man, showbriefly but do not take root and quickly passaway.

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