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182 V DISCOURSES OF RUMIto ward <strong>of</strong>f the cold. In this way, all things aredesired for some other thing, each desire leadingto the next, all ending in the desire for God. He isdesired for His own sake, not for anything else.Being beyond all, greater than all, nobler and subtlerthan all, can God be desired for somethingless? “So, He is the goal.” Within God is the completion<strong>of</strong> all things, beyond Him there is no transcending.The human mind churns with doubts anddifficulties. The mind can never be rid <strong>of</strong> theseexcept when it is truly in love—then all its doubtsand difficulties vanish. “Your love renders youblind and deaf.”For example, when Iblis would not bow downbefore Adam and opposed God’s command, Iblissaid, “My essence is spirit, his essence is clay.Why should the higher bow down before thelower?” So God banished Iblis for opposing andcontending with Divine Law. Then Iblis argued,“Alas, O Lord! You made all things. This wasYour temptation, and now You are cursing meand banishing me.”

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