Understanding and Forgiveness

When he heard someone saying to another in anger, "I'll skin you alive!" Mevlana interjected, "what a nice guy! 

The Exalted Mevlana Rumi gives great importance to solidarity between people and explains that helping one another is a trait seen only in mature people.
He says; "İf people aren't helping each other, don't want each other to be happy, and aren't mature, they aren't true humans."
While loving and thinking of others in every matter, Rumi fixes broken hearts, melts away sorrows, and eliminates greed and resentment; He's the King of Hearts. Cleansed of all impurities himself, Mevlana is the pure gate of understanding and forgiveness of all sins. As one who spreads fresh hope every moment, our Lord and Master Mevlana had a sweet and amiable temperament. He knew how to take things as a joke.
When he heard someone saying to another in anger, "I'll skin you alive!" Mevlana interjected, "what a nice guy! To be reunited with the mercy of our Friend, day and night we want to get out of this 'skin' (material things) and be saved from its troubles. If only that guy would come and save us from the vexation of the skin." With this, master of kindness provoked both laughter and awareness. (to be continued)
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