Discourses of Rumi

FIHI MA FIHI V 365Every angel has a tablet within them, and fromthat tablet, according to the degree of their ownpowers, they can read all that is to happen in theworld and everything that will take place. Whenthe moment arrives and what they have read actuallycomes into being, then their belief becomesstronger and their love and intoxication increase.They marvel at God’s majesty and omniscience.That increase of love and faith, that wordless andunexpressed wonder, is the angel’s praise of God.Thus, a builder tells their apprentice, “In thishouse being built, so much wood will be used, somany bricks, so many stones, and so muchstraw.” When the house is complete and exactlythat amount of material was used, neither morenor less, then the faith of the apprentice grows.The angels too are in a similar case.Someone asked: “The Prophet had suchmajesty that God said, ‘But for thee I would nothave created the heavens,’ and yet Mohammedsaid, ‘Would that the Lord of Mohammed hadnot created Mohammed.’ How can this be?”Rumi answered: Let me offer a comparison forthis to help you understand the meaning. In a certainvillage a man fell in love with a woman. The