Redeeming the Helpless

"O Thou who watches over us in heat and cold.
O Thou who gives us intimations in gladness and woe, even though our hearts are unaware of Your intimations,
O Lord, who daily and nightly sees us, but whom we do not see.
O Lord, make our light complete in the plain of resurrection, and deliver us from shameful and overwhelming indignities!
Do not let your night companion be banished from Your presence in the daytime, do not inflict separation in the soul that has experienced nearness.
Absence from You is a grievous and tormenting death, especially the absence that comes after the enjoyment of Your favor.
Do not drive from Your face the one who once beheld Your face!
O Lord who knows the secret, preserve us from these distractions and attractions, by the attraction of Your grace.
Thou, O Purchaser, are dominant over all attractors: it would be fitting if You would redeem the helpless."

Rumi (Vol.6 2887-2905)

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