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Pharoah and Moses
Mathnawi I: 2447
mûsà-wo fir`awn ma`nî-râ rahî
Zâhir ân rah dâr-ad-o în bê-rahî
Moses and Pharaoh (were both) the slaves of Spiritual
Reality--2 (even though) outwardly that one kept (the right)
way and this one (went) misguided.
"On the monistic theory underlying this section of the poem, ["God, who has no like or opposite, is the ultimate source of good and evil, faith and infidelity, and all other opposites, since these are nothing more than reflexions of the Divine attributes of Beauty and Majesty, Mercy and Wrath, etc., i.e. aspects in which God reveals Himself to human minds. Such contradictions, though proper to the world of Appearance, are transcended and unified in the mystic's vision of Reality... The mystic, 'seeing by the Light of God', knows that the infinite Divine perfections include all that we describe as good or evil.
Rúmí bids his readers 'break......
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