Do not put your trust in every idea and every notion

Life can show the most
wonderful things, but behind all of them lies a
trap should we forget the source of this wonder.
God has devised this plan so that we will learn
not to claim, out of arrogance and vanity, these
ideas and plans as our own.
If everything were in truth as it appears to be,
Mohammed, endowed as he was with a vision so
penetrating, so illuminated, would never have
cried,
“Lord, show me things as they are.
You show a thing as fair, and in reality it is ugly.
You show a thing as ugly, and in truth it is beautiful.
Show us everything just as it is,
So that we will not fall into the snare.”

Now, your judgement, however good and
luminous it may be, is certainly not better than
the Prophet’s judgement.
So do not put your trust in every idea and every notion,
 but only in God and Its wisdom.

RUMI