The Divine Physician

"The perfect divine physicians will hear your name from afar, and quickly penetrate into the deepest ground of your being and existence;
No, they will have seen you years before your birth- you, together with all the circumstances connected with you...
You are inhaling scent, and no flowers are visible: doubtless it is from the Unseen, and from the garden of the Universal...
Show kindness; O You who knows, and can tell us the mystery...
How should a Sufi be grieved on account of poverty? The very essence of poverty becomes his nurse and his food,
Because Paradise has grown from things disliked, and Mercy is the portion of one who is helpless and broken."

Rumi (Vol. 4, 1800-1856)

Commentary: The good divine Doctor, sends some surprising medicines: like poverty, and the annoying and irritating disappointments of the day. The only lasting cures will be brought about by mercy and grace.