The Passion for God
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
The following was translated by Shaykh Kabir Edmund Helminski, and Shaykha Camille Adams Helminski. Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi (q.s.) wrote, in his Matsnawi I, 217-219, 221:
“Love of the dead does not last
Because the dead will not return,
But love of the living,
Is in every moment fresher than a bud,
Both to the inward and the outward eye.
Choose the love of that Living One,
Who is Everlasting, Who Offers you,
The wine that increases life.
Do not say, ‘We have no entrance to that King.’
Dealings with the generous are not
difficult.”
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