Status Updates From The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi (...

"God looks not at your forms, nor at your deeds, but at your hearts"^^ (Discourses, p. 195).

What is the mirror of Being? Not-being. Bring not-being [death to self] (as your gift [to God]), if you are not afool (I, 3201).

within Sufism, spiritual practices or methods—such as invocation, meditation, music, and dance—are not seen as inherently powerful in and of themselves. Instead, these practices are considered effective only because of God’s grace and permission (tayid) that make them meaningful pathways to spiritual realization

"I am God": This statement, paradoxically, expresses the speaker’s realization that their individual self (ego) does not truly exist independently. In saying “I am God,” they mean “I have dissolved my ego completely; only God exists.” In other words, they’ve “naughted” themselves, removing any sense of a separate self. They see themselves as an expression of God’s reality, not as an independent being.

man does not "achieve" anything by realizing union with God; rather he becomes what he had always been in his inmost nature. God is the Real and nothing can be outside of His Reality.

Union with God is complete absorption in Him, such that:


the one absorbed is no longer there; he can make no more effort;
he ceases to act and to move; he is immersed in the water. Any
action that proceeds from him is not his action, it is the action
of the water

Man's self-existence is not real, since he is not God; therefore the illusion that it is real must be annihilated.

There is no reality but the Reality. Since God alone is real, man's real Self is God.

The mission of the prophets and saints is to remind
man of his original nature and to show him the way through
which it may once again be actualized

. Iblis denied Adam because this
tendency towards separation and spiritual blindness does
in fact exist within the universe.

If there had not been desire and hope of the fruit, how
should the gardener have planted the root of the tree?

Therefore in reality the tree was born of the fruit, (even)
if in appearance it (the fruit) was generated by the tree.

Universal Man has another aspect when seen from the
point of view of the spiritual path: he is the perfect human
model who has attained all of the possibilities inherent in the
human state - the universal man was muhammed

"From the point of view of God," all creation is performing but one task {Discourses, p. 221), i.e., that of revealing the
"Hidden Treasure"; thus, by the very fact that a being exists,
whether it does good or evil, it is worshipping God:

God created evil because it brings humans closer to god

on why god made the earth bad 'Both kinds of pictures are (evidences of) his mastery....
He makes the ugly of extreme ugliness—it is invested
with all (possible) ugliness—
In order that the perfection of his skill may be displayed,
(and that) the denier of his mastery may be put to shame.
And if he cannot make the ugly, he is deficient (in skill)'

God cannot NOT create the world, god is codependent upon its creation

The world subsists on a phantom. You
call this world real, because it can be seen
and felt, whilst you call phantom those
verities whereof this world is but an offshoot. The facts are the reverse.

Every moment the world is renewed,
and we are unaware of its being renewed
whilst it remains (the same in appearance).
Life is ever arising anew, like the
stream, though in the body it has the semblance of continuity

god is the original and when he looks in the mirror the mirrors image is the world as we know it

god is real but the world is not, hadith qudsf: "I was a hidden
treasure and I wanted to be known, so I created the world."

sufism values knowledge and love, it says it differs from traditional sariah because shariah is the act and sufism is the being. Shariah is for the ones of lesser intelligence because god made it so everyone could understand Islam, but sufism is the one tha uncovers the veils and brings us closer to god

his son said about him :

Never for a moment did he cease from listening to music and dancing:
Never did he rest by day or night.
He had been a mufti.- he became a poet.
He had been an ascetic: he became intoxicated by Love.
'Twas not the wine of the grape: the illumined soul drinks only the wine of Light.

Rumi was born in Khurasan, in 1207. After his fathers death in Konia, he took his title of sultan-al-ulema