Learn to surrender to the Divine Will
So you will understand quickly
And have a mind fragrant with love of God
When disaster falls on you suddenly.
While others whiten with terror
In the hour of gain or loss,
Laugh like the rose, for the rose –
Even if you tear petal after petal from it –
Never stops laughing and never grows cast down.
“Why,” says the rose, “should a thorn sadden me,
When I grew this laugh because of a thorn?”
A man asked, “What is Sufism?” The sheikh replied,
“To feel joy in the heart when anguish comes.”
Think of His punishment as like the eagle
That whisked away the Prophet’s sandal
To save him from the black snake in it.
God says, “Never despair.
At losing what leaves you.”
If a wolf comes and destroys your sheep
This misery averts worse misery,
This loss far more terrible loss. Rumi