Come, O son, I am thy mother.

Excerpt

Or when a mother cries to her sucking babe, 'Come, O son, I am thy mother,' Does the babe answer, 'O mother, show a proof That I shall find comfort from taking thy milk'?

Source Masnavi, Book II, Story XVI, §6 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Rumi, the Persian Sufi poet, just as a nursing baby recognizes its mother’s voice without asking her for proof, the soul instinctively recognizes the voice of truth and of God, who says in the Quran: “I am near.” Today, simply welcome a word or a presence that does you good, without arguing with it, and let yourself be comforted by it.

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