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“When Rumi compares the Koran to a bride (arus), one might suppose that he has in mind her submission to the husband. Quite the opposite: He means that the husband must submit to the will of the wife. Only by giving oneself to the other do we gain worthiness for the other's gift of self.“

“The interplay between these two attributes, these two hands of God, keeps the universe in constant movement and transmutation. At every instant wrath destroys the others, and at every instant mercy recreates them.”