We are as the flute
And the music in us is from thee.
We are as the mountain
And the echo in us is from thee.
We are as pieces of chess,
Engaged in victory and defeat
Our victory and defeat is from thee!
Oh thou whose qualities are comely!
Who are we? Oh you Soul of our souls!
That we should remain in being beside thee?
We and our existences are reallly non-existence,
Thou art the absolute, being which manifests the perishable!
We are all lions but lions on a banner,
Because of the wind, they are rushing, onwards from moment to moment.
Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen,
May that what is unseen not fail from us.
Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift!
Our whole existence is from thy bringing into being!
(Jelaluddin Rumi)
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