Sagacity From The Universal Tablet
The body is like a string (tied) on the foot of the soul, drawing it (down) from Heaven to earth.
When the frog-like soul escapes from the mouse-like body into the water, (which is) the sleep of unconsciousness, it enters into a happy state; (But) the mouse-like body pulls it back with that string: how much bitterness does the soul taste from this pulling!
Were it not for the pulling of the scatter-brained mouse, the frog would have enjoyed himself in the water.
You will hear the rest of it from the light-giving (illumination) of the Sun when you rise from slumber on the Day (of Resurrection).
(The mouse said), “Knot one end of the string on my foot and the other end on thine, That I may be able to pull thee to this dry land: lo, the end of the string (the object of my plan) is (now) clear (to thee).”
This news (proposal) was disagreeable to the heart of the frog, (who thought to himself), “This wicked fellow will bring me into a tangle.”
Whenever a feeling of repugnance comes into the heart of a good man, ’tis not devoid of some significance. Deem that (intuitive) sagacity to be a Divine attribute, not a (vain) suspicion: the light of the heart has apprehended (by intuitive perception) from the Universal Tablet.
The Masnawi – Volume 6, 2735
When the frog-like soul escapes from the mouse-like body into the water, (which is) the sleep of unconsciousness, it enters into a happy state; (But) the mouse-like body pulls it back with that string: how much bitterness does the soul taste from this pulling!
Were it not for the pulling of the scatter-brained mouse, the frog would have enjoyed himself in the water.
You will hear the rest of it from the light-giving (illumination) of the Sun when you rise from slumber on the Day (of Resurrection).
(The mouse said), “Knot one end of the string on my foot and the other end on thine, That I may be able to pull thee to this dry land: lo, the end of the string (the object of my plan) is (now) clear (to thee).”
This news (proposal) was disagreeable to the heart of the frog, (who thought to himself), “This wicked fellow will bring me into a tangle.”
Whenever a feeling of repugnance comes into the heart of a good man, ’tis not devoid of some significance. Deem that (intuitive) sagacity to be a Divine attribute, not a (vain) suspicion: the light of the heart has apprehended (by intuitive perception) from the Universal Tablet.
The Masnawi – Volume 6, 2735
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