| Divine Face of Jalal ud Din Rumi |
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| A prince, while engaged on a hunting excursion, caught sight of a fair maiden, fell in love with her, bought her and brought her to his kingdom and provided her with every happiness and comfort he could have imagined for her. We are living in a material society full of illusions. See what Rumi has to say about �imagination�:
(book 1, Lines 70-71) Within the spirit, imagined forms are visionary Witness world going after everything imaginary! (meaning inner soul dreaming and visualizing possibilities) ----(People act and react according to their own fantasy, thus create a will parallel to Divine Will.) Witness the peace and war based upon something imaginary, Their pride and their shame derived from something imaginary. ----(imagination�.here it is more akin to �bharam� a well maintained face of ego�a mask�it is fake�it has to go�so don�t keep it let it go.) |
| Khayal �.Imagination is something which is in between the stage of being and non-being�.Madoom�It could be and it could not be. So it�s important to regard this world vague like �khayal� or �Madoom��anything can BE, and still can�t BE. A mature soul accepts Divine Will and surrenders to it. Seeds can be sown, nurtured and cared for, still the farmer may not enjoy the luck of reaping a harvest. All his favors could bring no happiness to her; she refused to surrender before him and after a while she fell sick, and the prince had her tended by the best physicians available. They tried their best, being fully confident of their worldly expertise, they did not regard it as a major challenge, and asserted, Yes! Not a big deal, we will cure her, however, they all omitted to say, InShahAllah "God favoring us". Alas! Their treatment was of no avail. The girl was getting worse day by day. Seeking God�s favor relieves us of arrogance, which is the worst attribute of human nature. |
| As the prince has summoned Royal physicians, they saw symptoms of the girl and did not regard it major challenge for them.
Every one of us like Jesus cures the world Knowing medicine of each ailment, behold Arrogance let them not �InShahAllah� pronounce Left by Him what may their limitations denounce? Not that they had not the �word� said It was about their heart dead as lead Many a people talk, without the �word� In their spirits but repeated they heard Hence, hard as they for her cure strived All went fruitless malaise ever thrived When death knocks doctors loose prudence Astray medicine serve without guidance |
| Disappointed by all worldly efforts prince sought refuge in prayer. It was so deep and sincere one, that it was answered well by Allah and he was promised that a special physician shall be sent from heaven. He was the master�spiritual healer�he disregarded the royal physicians view, and employed his own method of investigation into heart�a very skilful diagnosis was reached. He had discovered that the real cause of the maiden's illness was her love for a certain goldsmith of Samarcand. Who had bought her, kept her along for six months and then resold her. She was in love with his physical smartness, could not part with him, and was unable to bear his deceit and exploitation of her. Unable to reject and denounce her beloved (goldsmith), she was rejecting sincere love of prince.
Look at how Rumi describes ailment of heart: |
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