Drawings Of The Absolute Existence

We are like the harp, and You are strumming upon it. The sound is not from us, but You are causing the lament.
We are like the reed-flute, and the melody within us is from You.
We are like a chess game, engaged in capture and checkmate, but our capture and checkmate is from You, O You of Beautiful Qualities!
O You, who are the Soul of our souls, who are we? That we should be in existence with You in our midst!
We and our existences are non-existences, while You are the Absolute Existence which causes our transient existences to appear.

Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi (Masnavi I, 597- 603)