Maulana Rumi, may Allah be pleased with him, said:
He has afflicted you from every direction in order to pull you back to the Directionless.
We can, regardless of our own individual state, derive many teachings from this short statement, which is why this student is going to leave this quote here so that she can reflect more clearly.
March 15, 2009 at 9:41 pm
al-Salamu alaikum sister Asma,
Ma sha Allah! Thank you for sharing this profound statement of Mevlana Rumi (may God sanctify his soul)
March 17, 2009 at 2:29 am
Bismillah.
As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh . . .
Ma sha Allah… I don’t even know how to express the feelings that ran across my heart and grabbed my soul upon reading this.
Source, reference?
Sincerely,
khalil abu asmaa
March 17, 2009 at 9:36 am
Wa alaykum asalaam wa rahmatullah,
Please forgive me for my forgetfullness in referencing and May Allah reward you for making me aware of it. The quote was obtained from: http://www.rumi.org.uk/
May Allah reward them with Tawfeeq. Allahumma Ameen.