Hello Rumi Tuesday! The Gnat Plaintiffs…

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Some gnats come from the grass to speak with Solomon.

“O Solomon, you are the champion of the oppressed.
You give justice to the little guys, and they don’t get any littler than us! We are tiny metaphors for frailty. Can you defend us?”

“Who has mistreated you?”

“Our complaint is against the wind.”

“Well,” says Solomon, “you have pretty voices,
you gnats, but remember, a judge cannot listen
to just one side. I must hear both litigants.”

“Of course,” agree the gnats.

“Summon the East Wind!” calls out Solomon,
and the wind arrives almost immediately.

What happened to the gnat plaintiffs? Gone.

Such is the way of every seeker who comes to complain
at the High Court. When the Presence of God arrives,
where are the seekers? First, there’s dying,
then Union, like gnats inside the wind.

by Jalaluddin Rumi
translated by Coleman Barks
(Mathnawi, III, 4624-4633, 4644-4659)
from Rumi: We Are Three

Have you ever complained about God?

Or to God?

Of course you have. You are a human being.

And yet, when the Essence of God comes to show you His Truth,

and your heart is blown open

to see with the inner eye,

then there is no more you.

There is Only One –

The Essence of the One.

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