When You are Sugar

When you are sweet because of sugar,
it is (possible) that sometime the sugar may become absent from you.
(But) when you become sweet as a result of being faithful,
then sugar will never be separated from sugar.
When the lover (of God) finds nourishment from (within) himself
(in the form of) "pure wine,"
the intellect will become lost there, lost, O companion.


The partial is the denier of Love,
although it may appear that it is the companion of (Love's) secrets.
It is smart and learned, but it is not non-existent.
As long as the angel has not become nothing, it is a devil.
It is our friend in (helping us with) words and actions,
(but) when you come to the dominating power of the (spiritual) state, (then) it is nothing.
It is nothing since it did not become nothing beyond (its) existence;
since it did not become nothing willingly,
there are (a great) many (who do so) unwillingly!




RUMI