كتاب فيه ما فيه Quotes

“أنتَ في القيمة أسمى من العَالَمَيْن كليهما
فماذا يمكن أن أفعلَ إذا كنتَ لا تعرفُ قَدَرَك؟؟
لا تبعْ نفسك رخيصاً،وأنتَ نفيسٌ جدا في عيني الحقّ”
― جلال الدين الرومي, فيه ما فيه

“الكلامُ ظلّ الحقيقة وفرع الحقيقة،فإذا ما جذب الظل، فإن الحقيقة أولى بالجذب منه وأخلق.الكلامُ ذريعة،وإنّ الذي يجذب إنساناً إلى إنسان آخر هو ذلك العنصر من التناسب،وليس الكلام.بل حتى إذا رأى الإنسان مئة ألف معجزة وبيّنة وكرامة،ولم يكن فيه عنصر التناسب الذي يربطه بذلك النبي أو الوليّ،لن يفيد ذلك شيئاً.فذلك هو الذي يجعل الإنسان جائشا ومضطربا ولا يهدأ.”
― جلال الدين الرومي, فيه ما فيه

“أنتَ جوهرٌ والعالمَان كلاهما عَرَض لك
والجوهر الذي يُطلَب من العَرَض ليس بذي قيمة
ابكِ على من يبحث عن العِلْم في القلب
واضحك على من يبحث عن العقل في النفس”
― جلال الدين الرومي, فيه ما فيه

“دوستان را در دل رنج‌ها باشد که آن به هیچ دارویی خوش نشود، نه به خفتن نه به گشتن و نه به خوردن الاّ به دیدار دوست”
― مولانا جلال الدین بلخی, گزیده فیه مافیه

“وهكذا يكونُ معلومًا أن لا رجاء من دون خوف، ولا يمكن تصور خوف من دون رجاء أو رجاء من دون خوف. فإذا كان الإنسان مؤملًا ومتوقعًا للجزاء والإحسان، فإنه لا محالة سيكون أكثر نشاطًا وأكثر جِدًّا في ذلك العمل. وذلك التوقع هو جناحه، وكلما قوِيَ جناحه زاد طيرانه.”
― جلال الدين الرومي, كتاب فيه ما فيه

“الحقيقة أن الجاذب واحدٌ، لكنه يتراءى متعددًأ. ألا ترى أن الإنسان تستبد به مئة من الرغائب المختلفة؟ - يقول: "أريد تتماج، أريد بورك، أريد حلوى، أريد فطائر مقلية، أريد فاكهة، أريد رطبًأ." يعدّد هذه الأشياء ويسمّيها واحدًا واحدًا، لكن أصلها جميعًا شئ واحد، أصلها الجوعُ؛ وذلك شئ واحد. ألا ترى كيف أنه عندما يشبع من واحد منها، يقول: "لا ضرورة لشئ من هذه الأشياء؟”
― جلال الدين الرومي, كتاب فيه ما فيه

“Rumi said: Whoever is loved is beautiful, but this doesn’t mean that whoever is beautiful is loved.

"There are girls more beautiful than Laila,"they used to tell Majnun. "Let us bring some to you."

"I do not love Laila for her form," Majnun would reply. "Laila is like a cup in my hand. I drink wine from that cup. I am in love with that wine. You only have eyes for the goblet and do not know the wine. A golden goblet studded with precious stones, but containing only vinegar, what use is that to me? An old broken gourd with wine is better in my eyes than a hundred goblets of gold.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“Wisdom is like the rain.
It's supply is unlimited, but it comes down according to what the occasion requires -
in winter and spring, in summer and autumn,
always in due measure, more or less,
but the source of that rain is the oceans itself, which has no limits.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“Take the famous utterance, "I am God." Some people think this is a great pretension, but "I am God" is in fact a great humility. Those who say, instead, "I am a servant of God" believe that two exist, themselves and God. But those who say, "I am God" have become nothing and have cast themselves to the winds. They say, "I am God" meaning, "I am not, God is all. There is no existence but God. I have lost all separation. I am nothing." In this the humility is greater.

This is what ordinary people don’t understand. When they render service in honor of God’s glory, their servanthood is still present. Even though it is for the sake of God, they still see themselves and their own actions as well as God—they are not drowned in the water. That person is drowned when no movement, nor any action belongs to them, all their movements spring from the movement of the water.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“Words are the shadow of reality, a mere branch of reality. Since the shadow draws, how much more the reality!
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. If someone should see a hundred thousand miracles and divine blessings, still, without an inner connection to that saint or prophet who was the source of those miracles, all these phenomena would come to nothing. It is this inward element that draws and moves us.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“Beyond this world is another world for us. This world and its delights cater to the animal within us. These pleasures all fill our animal nature, while our real self slowly dies. They say, "The human being is a rational animal," yet we consist of two things. Lusts and desires feed our animality in this material world. But as for our true essence, its food is knowledge, wisdom, and the sight of God. The animality within us flees away from God, while our spiritual self flees away from this world.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“From the viewpoint of reality, all the senses see one thing, but from the standpoint of outward form they are each different from the other. When one sense is moved to absorption, all the senses become absorbed in it.

Absorption is such that whoever enters it is no longer there. They make no more efforts, they cease to act and move. They are immersed in the water. No action is their action; it is the action of the water. But if they flail about in the water with their hands and feet, they are not truly submerged. If they utter a cry, “I am drowning,” this too is not absorption.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“Men and women run away from every goal, whether worldly or spiritual, because they overestimate the initial task. The proper way is a bit at a time. It is the same if someone eats too much; they should diminish it daily by a small bit, gradually. In that way, before a year or two have passed, they will have cut down what they eat by half, reducing it in such a way that their body does not notice. So it is with worship, withdrawing into solitude, attending to the service of God, and prayer. When a person enters upon the Way of God, for a while their prayers will be short. But after that, if they pray with their whole heart, their prayers will go on and on without end.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“The light that shines through the windows of the eyes and ears—if those windows did not exist, the light would not stop. It would find other windows to shine through.

If you bring a lamp before the sun, do you say, "I see the sun by means of this lamp"? God forbid! If you did not bring the lamp, the sun would still shine. What need is there for a lamp?”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“You must journey upon this infinite road with the feeble hands and feet that you possess. We know well that with feet so feeble you can never accomplish this journey. Indeed, in a hundred thousand years you will not be able to accomplish a single stage of this journey. But even as you collapse and fall, with no strength left to struggle farther, then Our loving breath will carry you on. Even a child, so long as it is a suckling, is carried in the arms, but when it is grown it is set free to walk. Now in this hour when your powers have left you, when your own means fail, behold Our graces, Our gifts and Our love. You will not witness even an atom of such blessings after a hundred thousand strivings.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“Someone said to Shams-i-Tabriz, "I have established the existence of God by a categorical proof." The following morning our Master, Shams, said, "Last night the angels came down and blessed that man, saying, 'Praise be to God, he has established the existence of our God! God give him long life! He has done no harm to the honor of men and women!'"
Oh poet, God exists. It needs no proof. If you do anything at all, establish yourself in some rank and station before Him. Otherwise, how can you share in His grace?”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“But these are merely words. You have caught that Light but still have not found humanity. Seek humanity: that is your true purpose. The rest is mere long-windedness. When words are elaborately decorated, their purpose is forgotten.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“In times of distress everyone calls for help; in times of toothache, and earache, in doubt, fear and insecurity. In secret everyone calls out hoping that One will hear and grant their requests. Privately, secretly, people perform good deeds to ward off weakness and restore their strength, trusting that Life will accept their gifts and efforts. When they are restored to health and peace of mind, then suddenly their faith leaves, and the phantom of anxiety soon returns.
“O God,” they cry again, “we were in such a terrible state when, with all sincerity, we called upon you from our prison corner. For a hundred prayers you granted our requests. Now, freed of the prison, we are still as much in need. Bring us out of this world of darkness into that world of the prophets, the world of light. Why can freedom not come without prisons and pain? A thousand desires fill us, both good and deceitful, and the conflict of these phantoms brings a thousand tortures that leave us weary. Where is that sure faith that burns up all phantoms?”
God answers, “The seeker of pleasure in you is your enemy and My enemy. When your pleasure-seeking self is imprisoned, filled with trouble and pain, then your freedom arrives and gathers strength. A thousand times you have proved that freedom comes to you out of toothache, headache and fear. Why then are you chained to bodily comfort? Why are you always occupied with tending the flesh? Do not forget the end of that thread: unravel those bodily passions till you have attained your eternal passion, and find freedom from the prison of darkness.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“Though the words of the great saints appear in a hundred different forms, since God is one and the Way is one, how can their words be different? Though their teachings appear to contradict, their meaning is one. Separation exists in their outward form only; in inner purpose they all agree.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“Though spiritual truth is inscrutable, still we all benefit from it through the embodiment of form. Just as you see the changes brought by the stars, moon and sun turning in the sky, the rain from clouds in due season, summer and winter, and all the transformations of time. You see all these things happen, and know that it is right and in accordance with wisdom. But how does that distant cloud know it is necessary to rain at its appointed time? Or how does this earth, when it receives a seed, know to return it tenfold? Well, Someone does this. Behold that Someone through the embodiment of this world, and find nourishment. Just as you use the body of another person to contact their essence, use the embodiment of this world to touch That reality.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“It astonishes me how some people say, 'How do saints and lovers of God find love in the eternal world beyond form, space and time? How can they gain strength and help? How are they affected by things without body or shape?'
Is not all life, night and day, engaged with these very things? One person loves another person and derives help through that love. They find care and grace, kindness and knowledge, happiness and sorrow. All these belong to that formless world. Moment by moment they receive benefits from these abstractions and are affected by them. However, this doesn’t surprise the doubters. Yet they are amazed that saints can find love in the invisible worlds, and derive help without form.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“These words are for the sake of those who need words to understand. But as for those who understand without words, what use have they for speech? The heavens and earth are words to them, sent forth themselves from the Word of God. Whoever hears a whisper, what need have they for shouting and screaming?”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“مجنون را می گفتند که: از لیلی خوبترانند، بر تو بیاریم؟ او می گفت که: آخر من لیلی را به صورت دوست نمی دارم، لیلی صورت نیست. لیلی به دست من همچون جامی است، من از آن شراب می نوشم. من عاشق شرابم و شما را نظر بر قدح است. از شراب آگاه نیستید.(فیه ما فیه)”
― Rumi, كتاب فيه ما فيه

“الفقهاء أناس أذكياء, و مئة بالمئة بصراء في فنهم. و لكن بينهم و بين العالم الأخر شُيّد جدار, من أجل حفظ "يجوز و لا يجوز".”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, كتاب فيه ما فيه

“Discrimination is a quality that is always hidden in a person. Don’t you see that an insane person possesses hands and feet but lacks discrimination? Discrimination is a subtle essence within you.
Yet, day and night you have been occupied with nurturing the physical form that does not know right from wrong. Why have you devoted all your energies to looking after the physical, entirely neglecting that subtle essence? The physical exists through that essence, but that essence in no way depends on the physical.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“No one becomes a scholar by virtue of robe and turban. Scholarship is a virtue in its very essence, and whether that virtue is clothed in tunic or overcoat, it makes no difference.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“Within people there is a longing and a desire such that, even if a hundred thousand worlds were theirs to own, still they would find no rest or comfort. They try every trade and craft, studying astronomy, medicine and every other subject, but they reach no completion, for they have not found their true desire. Poets call the Beloved “heart’s ease,” because there the heart finds ease. How can we find peace and rest in anything but the Beloved?

All these pleasures and pursuits are like a ladder. The rungs of a ladder are not a place to make one’s home; they are for passing by. Fortunate are those who learn this. The long road becomes short for them, and they do not waste their lives upon the steps.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“That infinite world is a subtle world and does not reveal itself openly—yet look how wonderfully it makes its appearance here! Don’t you see how the spring breeze becomes visible in the trees and grasses, the rose-beds and sweet herbs? Through the swaying of fields and flowers you witness the beauty of spring. But when you look upon the breeze itself, you see nothing. This isn’t because the beauty of those rose-beds are outside the reality of the breeze, for the spring breeze contains images of swaying rose-beds and sweet herbs, but those images are subtle and invisible. Only through some medium are they revealed out of their subtlety.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi

“I hope, too, that you will hear these words within your hearts, for that would be profitable. But if a thousand thieves come from outside, they cannot open the door without some fellow-thief inside who can unlock that door.
Speak a thousand words from the outside, still, so long as there is none to answer from within, the door never opens.
So too with a tree—as long as there is no moist thirst in its roots, even if you poured a thousand torrents of water over it, it would accomplish nothing. First there must be a thirst in its roots for the water to nourish it.
Although the whole world is ablaze with the sun’s light, unless there is that spark of light within the eye, no one can behold that light.
The root of the matter is the receptiveness within Soul.”
― Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi