Opposites

"When there is no enemy, the Holy War is inconceivable; if you have no lust, there can be no obedience to the Divine command.
Chastity depends on the existence of lust...
Heroism cannot be displayed against the dead...
Since God has given the command, "Refrain yourselves," there must be some desire from which you should divert your face.
For His lovers, God alone is all their joy and sorrow; God alone is their wages and hire for service.
Love is that flame, which when it blazes up, consumes everything else but the Beloved.
The lover drives home the sword of NOT in order to kill all other than God; therefore consider what remains after NOT.
There remains God: all the rest is gone.
Truly, God is the first and the last...
Oh, wonderful! Is there any beauty except from the refection of the Divine?
The human body has no movement, except from the spirit...
No opposite can be known, except through its opposite: only when anyone suffers blows will he know the value of kindness.
Consequently the present life has come first, in front, in order that you may appreciate the realm that comes at the last.
When you are delivered from this place, and go to that place, you will give thanks to God in the sugar-shop of everlastingness."

Rumi (Vol. 5, 575-601)

Commentary: Until we get to that ultimate "sweet-shop", in some weird way we can be grateful for all that opposes us...or so says Rumi...