Discourses of Rumi

FIHI MA FIHI V 53have turned their faces away from all else.Therefore, for them, the resurrection is alreadymanifest and present.There is no end to words, but they are givenaccording to the capacity of the seeker.Wisdom is like the rain. Its supply is unlimited,but it comes down according to what the occasionrequires—in winter and spring, in summer andautumn, always in due measure, more or less, butthe source of that rain is the oceans itself, whichhas no limits. Druggists put sugar or drugs in atwist of paper, but sugar is not limited by theamount in the paper. The stocks of sugar and thestocks of drugs are unlimited and unbounded;how can a piece of paper contain them?Some people uttered taunts at Mohammed,saying, “Why does the Koran come down uponyou word by word? Why not chapter by chapter?”Mohammed answered, “What do thesefools say? If it were to come down upon me all atonce, I would dissolve and vanish away.”Those who truly understand a little, understandmuch; of one thing, many things; of oneline, whole volumes. It is like when a group is