Many times does sunlight succeed to darkness.

Excerpt

To despair is wrong, The mercy and grace of God are boundless. One must not despair of the grace of such a Benefactor, One must cling to the stirrup-straps of God. Ah! many are the conditions which at first are hard, But, are afterwards relieved and lose their harshness. Oftentimes hope succeeds to hopelessness, Many times does sunlight succeed to darkness.

Source Masnavi, Book III, Story XIII, §6 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Rumi, the prophets remind us that God’s mercy is boundless: many trials, hard at first, end up softening, just as the sun returns after the night. Today, remember a past difficulty that eased over time, and with that same trust, place in God’s hands the one you are living now.

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