Discourses of Rumi

FIHI MA FIHI V 299blast of Israfil’s trumpet brings life to the atoms oftheir bodies, and the thoughts of each one, likescrolls from the next world, fly headlong towardseach person without any mistake—the tailor’sthoughts to the tailor, the lawyer’s thoughts to thelawyer, the blacksmith’s thoughts to the blacksmith,the oppressor’s thoughts to the oppressor,the thoughts of the just to the just. Does anyonesleep through the night as a tailor, and rise by daya cobbler? No, for that work belongs to them,and so they take up their occupation as before.From this you can see that the likeness of eachperson continues in the other world. This makessense, because in this world we see the same thing.If we continue with comparison until we reachthe end of this thread, we will witness all thestates of the next world in this world. We willsniff out in this world all the circumstances asthey correspond to the other world, and we willsee that all things are contained in God’s omnipotence.Many are the bones moldering in theirgraves, yet enjoying the sweet repose and drunkensleep of that enjoyment and intoxication.These are not idle words, for the saying goes,