Surrender Your Soul
Bring the briny bitter (animal) soul to the sword: buy the (heavenly) soul that is like a great sweet river.
It beseems the generous man thus to give money, (but) verily the generosity of the lover is the surrender of his soul (life).
If you give bread for God's sake, you will be given bread (in return); if you give your life for God's sake, you will be given life (in return).
If the leaves of this plane-tree drop off, the Creator will bestow on it the provision of leaflessness (spiritual poverty).
If because of your liberality no wealth remains in your hand, how should the bounty of God let you be down-trodden?
When any one sows, his barn becomes empty (of seed), but there is goodliness in his cornfield;
And, if he leaves it (the seed) in the barn and saves it up, weevils and mice and calamities (of time and decay) devour it.
This world is negation (of reality): seek (reality) in affirmation (of God). Your form (body) is void (of reality): seek in your essence. Bring the briny bitter (animal) soul to the sword: buy the (heavenly) soul that is like a great sweet river.
The Masnawi - Volume1 - 2235
It beseems the generous man thus to give money, (but) verily the generosity of the lover is the surrender of his soul (life).
If you give bread for God's sake, you will be given bread (in return); if you give your life for God's sake, you will be given life (in return).
If the leaves of this plane-tree drop off, the Creator will bestow on it the provision of leaflessness (spiritual poverty).
If because of your liberality no wealth remains in your hand, how should the bounty of God let you be down-trodden?
When any one sows, his barn becomes empty (of seed), but there is goodliness in his cornfield;
And, if he leaves it (the seed) in the barn and saves it up, weevils and mice and calamities (of time and decay) devour it.
This world is negation (of reality): seek (reality) in affirmation (of God). Your form (body) is void (of reality): seek in your essence. Bring the briny bitter (animal) soul to the sword: buy the (heavenly) soul that is like a great sweet river.
The Masnawi - Volume1 - 2235
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