Discourses of Rumi

FIHI MA FIHI V 331turned into ashes, do you hear any sound or seeany luster from them?The poet, Urwa ibn Adhina, wrote, “I knowwell the way God provides our daily bread. Whatuse is there in running about here and there withno purpose? Truly, when I forget about money,food, clothing and the desires of lust, my dailyportion comes to me. But when I run after thosedesires, they only bring me pain and wear me out.If I sit where I belong, with patience, my needs arefulfilled without pain and distress. For truly, mydaily supply is also seeking me and tugging at me.When it cannot pull me it comes to me, just aswhen I cannot attract it I go after it.”The upshot of these words is this: absorb yourselfwith the World to come so that World willpursue you. “Sitting” means to sit detached fromthis world while being absorbed in the affairs ofthe world to come. Those who run for the sake ofthe other World, they are truly seated. If they areseated for the sake of the present world, they arerunning. The Prophet said, “Whoever reduces alltheir cares to a single care, God fulfills all theirother needs.” If someone is plagued by ten cares