Discourses of Rumi

discourse 7The son of the Amir entered.Rumi said: Yourfather is always occupied with God. His faith isoverwhelming, and reveals itself in his words.One day your father said, “The people of Rumhave urged me to give my daughter in marriage tothe Tartars, so that our religion may become one,and this new religion of Muslimdom can disappear.”I said, “When has religion ever been one?There have always been two or three, and theyhave always had war and fighting between them.How do you expect to make religion one? It willbe one only in the next world, at the resurrection.As for this present world, it isn’t possible here, forhere each religion has a different desire anddesign. Here unity is impossible. It will be possibleonly at the resurrection, when humanitybecomes one and all people fix their eyes on oneplace, and all have one ear and one tongue.”Within us are many things. There is mouse inus, and there is bird. The bird carries the cage