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Old 06-21-2003, 10:20 AM   #36
Undertoad
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It turns out that "Rumi' is the name of an important Sufi poet. Winds of Change, a blog I read, links to this poem today:

http://www.libertyadvance.org/rumi.m....shepherd.html

In it, Allah speaks to Moses to tell him that any way of worship is a good way:

What seems wrong to you is right for him.
What is poison to one is honey to someone else.

Purity and impurity, sloth and diligence in worship,
these mean nothing to Me.

I am apart from all that.
Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better
or worse than one another.

Hindus do Hindu things.
The Dravidian Muslims in India do what they do.
It's all praise, and it's all right.

It's not Me that's glorified in acts of worship.
It's the worshipers! I don't hear the words
they say. I look inside at the humility.


Rumi, preaching tolerance in the 13th century. It is excellent.
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