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Rumi and the Vision of the Qur'an [View all]
From the article:
The peerless God has made all the six directions a theater
for the display of His signs to the clear-seeing,
so that, whatever animal or plant they look upon,
they may feed on the meadows of divine Beauty.
And so He said to the mystic companions,
Wherever you turn, there is the face of God.
for the display of His signs to the clear-seeing,
so that, whatever animal or plant they look upon,
they may feed on the meadows of divine Beauty.
And so He said to the mystic companions,
Wherever you turn, there is the face of God.
To read more:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingtradition/2018/07/1036/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Muslim&utm_content=49
The poem is just a small part of the article, but it so well expresses my own view that I put it at the beginning of the link.
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What about the free will of people who don't want to be murdered in a religious dispute?
trotsky
Jul 2018
#7
It is not a personal attack to reference threads where your own quoted text contradicted your claim,
trotsky
Jul 2018
#20
What makes you feel that you have this insight into the mind of the Creator? eom
guillaumeb
Jul 2018
#26
It should be obvious to everyone by now that gil's rules only apply when he wants them to.
trotsky
Jul 2018
#107
It's a ridiculous apologetic made even more ridiculous by its definition of "free will".
Act_of_Reparation
Jul 2018
#77
Like the Creator, I give my children vague, non-literal, and contradictory instructions
marylandblue
Jul 2018
#9