A few of the terms Rumi pairs together most commonly are secondary causes (asbab) and first cause (musabbib), outward (zahir) and inward (batin), dust and wind, foam and ocean, picture and painter, shadow and light. People look at secondary causes and think that they are the origin of everything that happens. But it has been revealed to the Awliyas(saints) that secondary causes are no more than a Purdha (Veil) These secondary causes are veils upon the eyes, for not every eye is worthy of seeing His craftsmanship. One must have an eye which cuts through secondary causes and tears aside all veils. To the end that it may see the First cause in No-place and known that exertion, earnings and shops are nonsense. Every good and evil arrives from the First cause. Oh father, secondary causes and means are naught But a phantom materialized upon the highway, so that the period of heedlessness may endure sometime longer. -Jalaudeen Rumi
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 06:21:21 +0000
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