To Quarrel With Your Reflection
When you have seen your ugliness in the mirror, O Hasan, do not strike (a blow) at the mirror!
Know that what appears to you in the well is (really) from outside; else you are (like) the lion that plunged into the well (and was drowned).
A hare led him astray, saying, “O such-and-such, this furious lion (thy rival) is at the bottom of the well. Go into the well and wreak vengeance on him: tear off his head, since thou art mightier than he.”
That (blind) follower of authority was subjugated by the hare: he was filled with boiling (fury) by his own fancy. He did not say, “This image is not produced by the water: this is not (produced) by anything except the changing activity of the (Divine) Changer.”
So when you, O slave to the six (directions), wreak vengeance on your enemy you are in error concerning all the six.
That enmity in him (your enemy) is reflected from God, for it is derived from the (Divine) attributes of Wrath (which are manifested) there; And that sin in him is homogeneous with your sin: you must wash that (evil) disposition out of your own nature. Your evil character showed itself to you in him because he was (like) the surface of a mirror to you. When you have seen your ugliness in the mirror, O Hasan, do not strike (a blow) at the mirror!
The Masnawi Volume 6, 3145
Know that what appears to you in the well is (really) from outside; else you are (like) the lion that plunged into the well (and was drowned).
A hare led him astray, saying, “O such-and-such, this furious lion (thy rival) is at the bottom of the well. Go into the well and wreak vengeance on him: tear off his head, since thou art mightier than he.”
That (blind) follower of authority was subjugated by the hare: he was filled with boiling (fury) by his own fancy. He did not say, “This image is not produced by the water: this is not (produced) by anything except the changing activity of the (Divine) Changer.”
So when you, O slave to the six (directions), wreak vengeance on your enemy you are in error concerning all the six.
That enmity in him (your enemy) is reflected from God, for it is derived from the (Divine) attributes of Wrath (which are manifested) there; And that sin in him is homogeneous with your sin: you must wash that (evil) disposition out of your own nature. Your evil character showed itself to you in him because he was (like) the surface of a mirror to you. When you have seen your ugliness in the mirror, O Hasan, do not strike (a blow) at the mirror!
The Masnawi Volume 6, 3145
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