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 | Subject: Jalâluddîn Rumi on the Prayer  Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:02 am | |
| From: Jalâluddîn Rumi on Prayer
I. The Delight Derived from the Prayers:
"The window of my soul opens,
and from the purity of the Unseen World,
the Book of Allah comes to me straight.
The Book, the rain of Divine Grace, and the Light
are falling through my window into my house
from my real and original source.
The house without a window is Hell:
to make a window, O servant of Allah,
is the foundation of the true Religion.
Don't thrust your axe upon every thicket:
come, use your axe to cut open a window."
[Rumi, Jewels of Remembrance]
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II. "Be always at work scraping the dirt from the well.
To everyone who suffers, perseverance brings good fortune.
The Prophet has said that each prostration of prayer is a knock on heaven's door.
When anyone continues to knock, felicity shows its smiling face."
[Rumi, Love is a Stranger]
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III. "From the ritual prayer, which is as the egg,
hatch the chick;
don't peck like a bird
without reverence or felicity."
[Rumi, Jewels of Remembrance] | |
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