Discourses of Rumi

discourse 43Our friend, Saif al-Bukhari has gone to Egypt.Everyone likes a mirror, and is in love withreflections of their own attributes and attainments,but our friend misses the true nature of hisface. He thinks this bodily veil is a face, and themirror of this veil is the mirror of his face.Uncover your face, so you can know for sure thatI am a mirror of your true self.Someone said: “I know for a fact that theprophets and saints are all victims of a false presumption.There is nothing to it but mere pretense.”Rumi said: Do you say this at random, or haveyou looked into this before speaking? If you havelooked into this, then this pretension you haveseen is itself a vision, and therefore a proof oftheir vision. Indeed, such knowingness is the mostprecious and noblest thing in existence. The proofof the prophets’ message is simply their own claimto such vision, which you have acknowledged