Discourses of Rumi

212 V DISCOURSES OF RUMIus, all others are false.” All the others say exactlythe same. So the two and seventy creeds are inagreement that all others are without revelation.They are all in accord that there is no revelationto any other religion, and that out of the lot ofthem there is but one true path. So, a believermust have discrimination and wisdom to knowwhich one it is. Such discrimination and wisdomis true faith.Someone said: “The religions that don’t knoware many, and those that know are few. If we areto occupy ourselves with distinguishing all ofthem it will be a long business.”Rumi answered: Although there are many whodo not know, when you know a few you haveknown them all. In the same way when you knowa single handful of corn, you know all the cornstacksin the world. If you have tasted sugar once,though halvah is made in a hundred differentvarieties, still in that halvah you know the sugar.If these words seem repetitious to you, it isonly because you have not yet learned the first lesson,so I must say it every day. There was once astudent who was taught for three months, but