Not Without A GuIde!

The Amir asked: “When a servant of God performs a service (worship), does the grace and good arise from that action, or is it the gift of God?” 

Rumi answered: It is the gift of God and the grace of God. Yet God, out of Its exceeding love gives credit for both the action and the grace to the servant, declaring, “Both are yours.” 

The Amir said: “Since God has such love, then everyone who seeks in truth shall find.” 

Rumi said: But without a guide this does not come to pass. So, when the Israelites were obedient to Moses, ways were opened up to them even through the sea. But when they were disobedient, they remained in the wilderness for many years... 

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Just as the mind is commander in the midst of the body, so all the different beings who make up humankind, together with their many minds, knowledge, speculation and learning, are the body of humanity, and the saint is the mind in the midst of them. 

Now when these people, who are the body, do not follow that mind, their affairs all fall into confusion and conflict.