In Love ...

Loving a human, at times, leads one to love the Lord.

And the love of Lord brings one down to earth.

.... To understand what is loving the humans!

Just stumbled across what Rumi writes in "Look! This is Love"

Oh, if a tree could wander

     And move with foot and wings!

It would not suffer the axe blows

     And not the pain of saws!

For would the sun not wander

     Away in every night?

How could at every morning

     The world is lighted up?

And if the ocean's water

     Would not rise to the sky,

How would the plants be quickened

     By streams and gentle rain?

The drop that left its homeland,

     The sea, and then returned?

It found an oyster waiting

     And grew into a pearl.

Did Yusaf not leave his father?

     In grief and tears and despair?

Did he not, by such a journey,

     Gain kingdom and fortune wide?

Did not the Prophet travel?

     To far Medina, friend?

And there he found a new kingdom

     And ruled a hundred lands.

You lack a foot to travel?

     Then journey into yourself!

And like a mine of rubies

     Receive the sunbeams' print!

Out of yourself such a journey

     Will lead you to your self,

It leads to transformation

 Of dust into pure gold!

Poem Translated by Annemarie Schimmel.