Discourses of Rumi

FIHI MA FIHI V 51upwards, while the mouse drags it down. A hundredthousand different wild beasts are togetherwithin us, but they are all converging on thatmoment when the mouse will renounce its mousehoodand the bird its birdhood, and all becomeone. For the goal is neither going up or down.When the goal shows itself clearly, it will be neitherabove nor below.A woman lost something. She looks left andright, in front and behind. Once she has foundthat thing she no longer searches above andbelow, left and right, in front or behind. All atonce she becomes calm and collected. Similarly,on the resurrection day all people will be of oneeye, tongue, ear and understanding.When ten friends share a garden or a shop incommon, they speak as one, they plan as one, andtheir work is with one thing since their objectiveis the same. So, on the resurrection day, since theaffair of all will be with God, they will all be one.In this world everyone is preoccupied with aseparate affair. One is in love with women, one isin love with wealth, another is engaged in acquiringpossessions, another in acquiring knowledge.Everyone believes that their cure, their joy, their