Discourses of Rumi

FIHI MA FIHI V 23getting. When you remember, then the heart ofthat moment becomes visible, and the way opensup before you. Indeed, what is our condition, seeingthat lions, tigers and crocodiles are all helplessand tremble before God? Even the heavens andearth are helpless and subject to His decree.God is a mighty emperor. Its Light is not likethe light of the moon or sun where some formabides in its place. When God’s Light shines forthunveiled, neither heaven nor earth remain.Neither sun nor moon. Nothing remains but thatgreat Reality.A certain king said to a dervish, “In themoment when you find revelation and propinquityin the Court of God, remember me.” Thedervish replied, “When I come into that Presence,and the Light of that Sun shines upon me, I willno more remember myself. How then can Iremember you?”Even still, make a request of such a dervish,who is utterly absorbed, and even without themmentioning you or your needs in God’s presencestill the request is fulfilled.