Discourses of Rumi

FIHI MA FIHI V 415and Ali is superior to the fantasy of theCompanions. Between one person’s fantasy andanother’s are great differences. An expert architectpictures building a house. Another personwho is not an architect also imagines a house.However, the differences are great because thearchitect’s fantasy is closer to reality. It is the samein the world of realities and vision, there are differencesbetween one person’s vision and thevision of others.They say there are seven hundred veils ofdarkness and seven hundred veils of light. Well,all the worlds of fantasy are veils of darkness, andall the worlds of realities are veils of light. Butbetween those veils of darkness, there is noknowledge that can grasp their extreme subtlety,and despite the vast and enormous variationbetween the worlds of realities, those differencescan never be comprehended by the mind.