Whoever is just is saved
from all kinds of errors and futilities.
It is better to be just
than to pass your whole life
in the genuflexions and prostrations of exterior worship.
Attar, The Conference of the Birds 31
all meaningless, pitiless and contemptible.
Rumi, Masnavi
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"Come, come again, whoever you are, come!
Heathen, fire worshipper or idolatrous, come!
Come even if you broke your penitence a hundred times,
Ours is the portal of hope, come as you are."
Rumi
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"Rumi said, 'From love, thorns become flowers,'
"Rumi teaches that even if the Devil falls in love,
he becomes something like (the angel) Gabriel,
and that evilness dies within him."
"Rumi teaches that even if the Devil falls in love,
he becomes something like (the angel) Gabriel,
and that evilness dies within him."
