Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Judging God

"Though the pearls be broken into small fragments, they become collyrium for the eye of the spirit.
O pearl, do not beat your head in grief at your being broken,
for through being broken you will become radiant light.
If wheat is broken and turned over in the mill, it appears in the baker's shop saying, "Look! A perfect loaf!"
Verily, this face speaks nothing but truth.
How should it be that someone like you, from egoism, should make a trial of a Beloved like this One?
How can you make a trial of the One who raised aloft the vaults of heaven?
God will not send you to the wrong place...
If the mote comes and weighs the mountain, its scales will be shattered by the mountain, O youth;
For the novice applies the scales of his own judgment and puts the Saints of God on the scales.
But since the Saints are not contained by the scales of the intellect, consequently, they shatter the scales of the intellect.

Rumi (Vol. 4, 343-379)

Commentary: Judging is youthful, and naive; the practice of novices. Someday we will grow up (spiritually).