"Sell intelligence and buy bewilderment: intelligence is opinion, while bewilderment is (immediate) vision.
Sacrifice your understanding in the presence of Mustafa (Mohammed) say, "hasbiya 'llah', for God sufficeth me." - Rumi, Masnavi IV (1405)
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"Jesus is the comrade of Moses,
and Jonas is the comrade of Joseph,
but Muhammad sits alone, meaning, "I am distinct (from other Prophets).
Love is the ocean of deep spiritual meaning, and everyone in the ocean is like a fish.
And Muhammad is the pearl in the ocean. Look! I keep revealing this." - Rumi
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"Glory be to God, the Lord of all created beings, and God bless the best of His creatures, Mohammed, and his kin, the noble, the pure!" - Rumi, Preface to Masnavi I (R. A. Nicholson's 1926-34 British translation of the Masnavi)
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"'Tis (even) as by the polishing action of the Light of Mustafá (Mohammed) a hundred thousand sorts of darkness became radiant.
Jew and polytheist and Christian and Magian—all were made of one colour by that Alp Ulugh (great hero).
A hundred thousand shadows short and long became one in the light of that Sun of mystery.
Neither a long (shadow) remained nor a short nor a wide: shadows of every kind were given in pawn to (absorbed in) the Sun." - Rumi, Masnavi VI (1860)
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"Know that the words of the Qur'án have an exterior (sense), and under the exterior (sense) an interior (sense), exceedingly overpowering;
And beneath that inward (sense) a third interior (sense), wherein all intellects become lost.
The fourth interior (sense) of the Qur'án none hath perceived at all, except God the peerless and incomparable.
In the Qur'án do not thou, O son, regard (only) the exterior: the Devil regards Adam as naught but clay.
The exterior (sense) of the Qur'án is like a man's person, for his features are visible, while his spirit is hidden.
A man's paternal and maternal uncles (may see him) for a hundred years, and of his (inward) state not see (so much as) the tip of a hair." - Rumi, Masnavi III (4245)
"Sell intelligence and buy bewilderment: intelligence is opinion, while bewilderment is (immediate) vision.
Sacrifice your understanding in the presence of Mustafa (Mohammed) say, "hasbiya 'llah', for God sufficeth me." - Rumi, Masnavi IV (1405)
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