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December 28, 2007
he is the ultimate
Everything in this world-like wealth, women, and cloths-is sought because of something else, not in and for itself. Don’t you see that if you had a hundred thousand dirhems and were hungry or unable to find food, you couldn’t eat those dirhems? Sexuality if for producing children and satisfying passion. Clothing is to ward of the cold. Thus do all things form links in a chain to God. It is He who is sought for His own sake and who is desired for Himself, and not for any other reason. Since He is beyond everything and is nobler and more subtle than anything, why would He be sought for the sake of what is less than Him? Therefore it can be said that He is the ultimate. When one reaches Him, one has reached the final goal; there is no surpassing there.
Rumi - Fihi Ma Fih
Posted by amin at December 28, 2007 1:58 PM