RUMI: "The protection against God's anger"

Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi (Allah be pleased with him) said:

 

A sober-minded man said to Jesus,

"What in this existence is hardest to bear?"

"O dear soul," he replied, "the hardest is God's anger,

from which Hell is trembling as we are."

"And what is the protection against God's anger?"

Said Jesus, "To abandon your own anger at once."

 

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Goft `Isâ-râ yeki hoshyâr sar

"Chist dar hasti ze jomleh sa`b-tar"

Goftesh "Ay jân sa`b-tar kheshm-e Khodâ

keh az ân Duzakh larzad cho mâ"

Goft "Azin kheshm-e Khodâ cheh bovad amân"

Goft "Tark-e kheshm-e khvish andar zamân"

 

           -- Mathnawi IV: 113-115

              Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski

              "Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"

              Threshold Books, 1996

              (Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

 

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