A Joy With No Sorrow, A Rose Without A Thorn
“None but the purified shall touch God.”
So long as there remains in you a single trace of self-love, God will not show His face to you.
So long as there remains in you a single trace of self-love, God will not show His face to you. You will not be worthy of His presence. You must become wholly indifferent to yourself and the world, so that Friend can show His face. So, whenever our religion lodges in a heart, it will not withdraw its hand until it brings that heart to God and severs from it all that is untrue.
The Prophet went on to say to that person, “You have no peace because sorrow’s purpose is to empty you of previous joys. So long as food fills your stomach, you are not given new food to eat. During elimination, we eat nothing. When we are empty and hungry, then we are given food. Be patient and grieve, for grieving is the emptying of yourself. After you are empty, then joy can enter—a joy with no sorrow, a rose without a thorn, a wine without crop-sickness.”
Why, night and day, do you search for quiet and rest? They cannot be found in this world.
But not for one instant do you give up seeking these things. The comfort you find in this world is like a lightning flash that passes but never endures. And what kind of lightning is it? Lightning full of hail, full of rain and snow, full of suffering.
For
instance, someone sets out for Antalya. They go
toward Caesarea hoping to reach Antalya, and
never turn back even though it is impossible to
reach Antalya by this route. But another who goes
by the Antalyan road, though lame and feeble,
still they will reach their goal, since that is where
the Antalyan road ends.
No task in this world or the next is without suffering.
Therefore, devote your suffering to the next world so it will not be wasted. You say, “O Mohammed take away this religion from me, for I can find no rest.” How can our religion let anyone go before it brings them to the goal?
Fihi Ma Fihi - Discourse 26
So long as there remains in you a single trace of self-love, God will not show His face to you.
So long as there remains in you a single trace of self-love, God will not show His face to you. You will not be worthy of His presence. You must become wholly indifferent to yourself and the world, so that Friend can show His face. So, whenever our religion lodges in a heart, it will not withdraw its hand until it brings that heart to God and severs from it all that is untrue.
The Prophet went on to say to that person, “You have no peace because sorrow’s purpose is to empty you of previous joys. So long as food fills your stomach, you are not given new food to eat. During elimination, we eat nothing. When we are empty and hungry, then we are given food. Be patient and grieve, for grieving is the emptying of yourself. After you are empty, then joy can enter—a joy with no sorrow, a rose without a thorn, a wine without crop-sickness.”
Why, night and day, do you search for quiet and rest? They cannot be found in this world.
But not for one instant do you give up seeking these things. The comfort you find in this world is like a lightning flash that passes but never endures. And what kind of lightning is it? Lightning full of hail, full of rain and snow, full of suffering.
For
instance, someone sets out for Antalya. They go
toward Caesarea hoping to reach Antalya, and
never turn back even though it is impossible to
reach Antalya by this route. But another who goes
by the Antalyan road, though lame and feeble,
still they will reach their goal, since that is where
the Antalyan road ends.No task in this world or the next is without suffering.
Therefore, devote your suffering to the next world so it will not be wasted. You say, “O Mohammed take away this religion from me, for I can find no rest.” How can our religion let anyone go before it brings them to the goal?
Fihi Ma Fihi - Discourse 26
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