Completely Desireless
“Whoever desires to sit next to God, let them
sit with lovers of God.”
These intellectual sciences are a game and a waste of life, compared to the spiritual experiences of the dervishes. This way of desirelessness is the way to attain your desires. Whatever you have longed for will come to you on this path, whether the shattering of armies, victory over your enemy, capturing kingdoms, bringing people to obedience, excelling your contemporaries, or elegance of speech.
When you have chosen the way of poverty, these things come to you. No one has ever traveled this road and had cause to complain, contrary to other ways where only one out of a hundred thousand reach their goal, and even they do not always find happiness and peace. For every desire has many branching paths to reach that goal. It is long and arduous, full of pitfalls and obstacles, and in the end it is possible those twisting paths will fall short of your desire.
However, once you enter the world of poverty
and practice it, God bestows on you kingdoms
and worlds you never imagined, and you feel
quite ashamed of what you longed for at first.
“Ah!” you cry. “With such reality in existence,
how could I have sought after such foolishness?”
But God says, “If only you had risen above such desires, becoming detached from them and seeing them for what they were, all would have been well. Yet now, when they enter your thoughts and you avoid them for My sake, My grace is
infinite, so of course I make them attainable to you.”
So it happened with Mohammed. Before he attained his goal and became famous, he listened to the elegant speech and eloquence of the Arabs, and he wished that he too could speak so well. Yet, once the invisible worlds were revealed to him, and he became drunk with God, his heart turned completely against that desire and longing.
Fihi Ma Fihi - Discourse 39
These intellectual sciences are a game and a waste of life, compared to the spiritual experiences of the dervishes. This way of desirelessness is the way to attain your desires. Whatever you have longed for will come to you on this path, whether the shattering of armies, victory over your enemy, capturing kingdoms, bringing people to obedience, excelling your contemporaries, or elegance of speech.
When you have chosen the way of poverty, these things come to you. No one has ever traveled this road and had cause to complain, contrary to other ways where only one out of a hundred thousand reach their goal, and even they do not always find happiness and peace. For every desire has many branching paths to reach that goal. It is long and arduous, full of pitfalls and obstacles, and in the end it is possible those twisting paths will fall short of your desire.
But God says, “If only you had risen above such desires, becoming detached from them and seeing them for what they were, all would have been well. Yet now, when they enter your thoughts and you avoid them for My sake, My grace is
infinite, so of course I make them attainable to you.”
So it happened with Mohammed. Before he attained his goal and became famous, he listened to the elegant speech and eloquence of the Arabs, and he wished that he too could speak so well. Yet, once the invisible worlds were revealed to him, and he became drunk with God, his heart turned completely against that desire and longing.
Fihi Ma Fihi - Discourse 39
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