Rumi & Sufism
By Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch
Translated from the French by Simone Fattal Illustrated with 45 photographs, charts, and maps; index and bibliographyThe following is an excerpt from Rumi and Sufism, copyright 1987 Simone Fattal. (English Edition)
"If you ask me, oh my brother, which are the signs of the path, I would
answer you very clearly and without ambiguity. The Path is to look at
the truth and break with the falsity, it is to turn your face to the living
universe, to despise the earthly dignities, to free your mind from any
ambition of glory and fame, to stoop to His service, to purify your soul
from evil and strengthen it with reason, to leave the house of those who
talk too much and go to the ones where people are silent and to travel
from God's manifestations to God's Attributes and from there to His Knowledge.
Then, at that moment, you will have crossed the world of mysteries and
arrived at the door of Poverty. When you are Poverty's friend, your deep
soul will have become a penitent heart. Then, God will extract Poverty
from your heart, and when Poverty is gone from there, God will stay in
your heart." (Sana'i, Hadiqua,p. 112-113)
