Give up Chasing the Fame
Hide the grain (bait), become wholly a snare; hide the bud, become the grass on the roof.
If you are a grain, the little birds will peck you up; if you are a bud, the children will pluck you off. Hide the grain (bait), become wholly a snare; hide the bud, become the grass on the roof. Any one who offers his beauty to auction, a hundred evil fates set out towards him (and overtake him). Plots and angers and envies pour upon his head, like water from waterskins. Foes tear him to pieces from jealousy; even friends take his lifetime away. He that was heedless of the sowing and the springtide, how should he know the value of this lifetime? You must flee to the shelter of God's grace, who shed thousand fold grace upon (our) spirits, That you may find a shelter. Then how (will you lack) shelter? Water and fire will become your army. Did not the sea become a friend to Noah and Moses? Did it not become overbearing in vengeance against their enemies? Was not the fire a fortress for Abraham, so that it raised smoke (sighs of despair) from the heart of Nimrod? Did not the mountain call Yahyá (John the Baptist) to itself and drive off his pursuers with blows of stone? “O Yahyá,” it said, “come, take refuge in me, that I may be thy shelter from the sharp sword.” The Masnawi – Volume 1, 1835
If you are a grain, the little birds will peck you up; if you are a bud, the children will pluck you off. Hide the grain (bait), become wholly a snare; hide the bud, become the grass on the roof. Any one who offers his beauty to auction, a hundred evil fates set out towards him (and overtake him). Plots and angers and envies pour upon his head, like water from waterskins. Foes tear him to pieces from jealousy; even friends take his lifetime away. He that was heedless of the sowing and the springtide, how should he know the value of this lifetime? You must flee to the shelter of God's grace, who shed thousand fold grace upon (our) spirits, That you may find a shelter. Then how (will you lack) shelter? Water and fire will become your army. Did not the sea become a friend to Noah and Moses? Did it not become overbearing in vengeance against their enemies? Was not the fire a fortress for Abraham, so that it raised smoke (sighs of despair) from the heart of Nimrod? Did not the mountain call Yahyá (John the Baptist) to itself and drive off his pursuers with blows of stone? “O Yahyá,” it said, “come, take refuge in me, that I may be thy shelter from the sharp sword.” The Masnawi – Volume 1, 1835
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