Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful; it is out of very jealousy and proper pride that we entered the veil. <br />On the day when we cast of the body’s veil from the soul, you will see that we are the envy of despair of man and the Polestars. <br />Wash your face and become clean for beholding us, else remain afar, for we are beloveds of ourselves. <br />We are not that beauty who tomorrow will become a crone; till eternity we are young and heart-comforting and fair of stature. <br />If that veil become worn out, the beauty has not grown old; the life of the Veil is transient, and we are boundless life. <br />When Eblis saw the veil of Adam, he refused; Adam called to him, “You are the rejected one, not I.” <br />The rest of the angels fell down prostrate, saying as they bowed themselves, “We have encountered a beauty: <br />“Beneath the veil is an idol who by his qualities robbed us of reason, and we, prostrate, fell.” <br />If our reason does not know the forms of the foul old men from those of the beauties, we are apostates from love. <br />What place is there for a beauty? For he is the Lion of God. Like a child we prattled, for we are children of the alphabet. <br />Children are beguiled with nuts and raisins, else, how are we meet for nuts and sesame-grains? <br />When an old woman is hidden in helmet and chainmail, she says, “I am the illustrious Rostam of the battle ranks.” <br />By her boast all know that she is a woman; how should we make a mistake, seeing that we are in the light of Ahmad? <br />“The believer is discriminating” - so said the Prophet; now close your mouth, for we are guided rightly without speech. <br />Hear the rest of from Shams the Pride of Tabiz for we did not take the end of the story from that king.<br /><br />Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/weary-not-of-us-for-we-are-very-beautiful/
