Discourses of Rumi

FIHI MA FIHI V 373unlucky, and this seems unfair and disturbing tothe mind.But love for God is latent in all people,Magians, Jews or Christians, and in all things thathave being. How can anyone not love Him who isthe source of their existence? Therefore, love islatent in everyone, but circumstances veil thatlove. When those circumstances change, that lovebecomes manifest.Yet, why do I speak of only things that havebeing? Non-being is also churning in the hopeand expectation of being granted existence. Nonbeingsare like four people standing before aking, each one hoping the king will grant themspecial rank, and yet each one ashamed beforethe other three, because their own desires contradicteach other. So they stand, ranging in theirexpectation of finding existence through God,yet each desiring to be the first, and thereforeembarrassed before one another. If non-beingsare in such a circumstance, how should those inexistence be?“There is nothing that does not proclaimHis praise.”