Wherever You Are,He is with You

WHEREVER YOU ARE, HE IS WITH YOU



One has to observe within all these different states to witness the wonders of
His work. Within one moment, your state is like this, in another moment, it is
like that. Like this, He keeps your eyes closed, and then He makes you open your
eyes, like that!

The human being is greater than all created beings, because his vision is wide enough to contain the Throne, the Highest Heaven, the heavens and the earth, and all the creatures that are in between.

The vision of this creature, who shares the attributes of God, is greater than all vision other than His. Why should it be strange if with all His attributes God manifests Himself through this creature? Wherever you are, He is with you (57:4).By means of his power of sight and understanding, God has shown a direction to each one, in such a way that they see no other direction. One sees the work of goldsmithing, and to another He shows the subtleties of jewelry, of alchemy, of sorcery, or of explanations. Someone else strives on the way of logic and debate; he sees the fine points of jurisprudence and theology. And others, filled with ease and the pleasure of the other universe, see the Divine Light of God, while someone else sees desire, attraction, beauty, and love , the other sees only foolishness and buffoonery. And someone else sees angels, houris, the Throne and the Highest Heaven, and is drawn to these. For each of them, a window of sight is opened in this kiosk, and they watch the universe from a different balcony. This one is not aware of that one's state, and that one doesn't understand anything about the state of this one.

Balconies have been opened for hundreds of thousands--an infinite number of living beings, for animals, insects, and angels. A doctor or an astronomer, or whoever goes higher, will see still more balconies open.

---Rumi's Sun - Shams of Tabriz