A nice quote from Rumi
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When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.
-Rumi, "Mathnawi"
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"If intellect was sufficient for the comprehension of the revealed truths,
Then the rationalists, logicians and dialecticians would have also shared in the secrets of Religion.
And if the intellect could discern the true way in this question,
Then Fakhr-i-Razi would be an expert in Religious mysteries."-- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi (rahmatullahi alayh)
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When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you,
Ansar,
Is the devil an acquired one by those who go astray, or instilled into our nature as rumi points out ?
Dread of the devil has bound their souls;
-Rumi, "Mathnawi"Is soul not the RUH of Allah ? And yet can the devil bind our souls ?
drfazl
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"If intellect was sufficient for the comprehension of the revealed truths,
Then the rationalists, logicians and dialecticians would have also shared in the secrets of Religion.
And if the intellect could discern the true way in this question,
Then Fakhr-i-Razi would be an expert in Religious mysteries."-- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi (rahmatullahi alayh)
Peace all
Do you mean to say intellect is insufficient to discern? Intellect is an endwment from Allah or not ?
drfazl
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