<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57791" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 6px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">What Is Bounty Without A Beggar<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57792" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57793" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">What is bounty without a beggar? Generosity without a guest? <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57794" class="">Be beggar and guest; for beauty is seeking a mirror, water is crying for a thirsty man. <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57795" style="display: inline;" class=""><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57796" class="">Hopelessness and need are tasteful bezel for that ruby.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57797" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline;" class=""><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57798" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px;" class="">Your poverty is a Burak;* don't be a coffin riding on other men's shoulders. <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57799" class="">Thank God you hadn't the means or you may have been a Pharaoh.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57800" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px;" class="">The prayer of Moses was, "Lord, I am in need of Thee!" <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57801" class="">The Way of Moses is all hopelessness and need and it is the only way to God. <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57802" class="">From when you were an infant, when has hopelessness ever failed you?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57803" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px;" class="">Joseph's path leads into the pit; don't flee across the chessboard of this world, for it is His game and we are checkmate! checkmate!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57804" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px;" class="">Hunger makes stale bread more delicious than halvah. <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57805" class="">Your spiritual discomfort is spiritual indigestion; seek hunger and passion and need!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57806" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px;" class="">A mouse is a nibbler. God gave him mind in proportion to his needs. <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57807" class="">Without need God gives nothing.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57808" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px;" class="">How will you impress God? You are a hundred thousand dinars in His debt! <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57809" class="">A beggar shows his blindness and palsy, <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57810" class="">he does not say, "Give me bread, O, people! I am a rich man with granaries and palaces!"</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57811" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px;" class="">Bring a hundred sacks of gold and God will say, "Bring the heart." <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57812" class="">And if you bring a dead heart carried like a coffin on your shoulder, <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57813" class="">God will say, "O, cheat! Is this a graveyard? Bring the live heart! Bring the live heart!"</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57814" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px;" class="">If you haven't any knowledge and opinions, <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57815" class="">have good opinions about God. This is the way. <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57816" class="">If you can only crawl, crawl to Him. <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57817" class="">If you can not pray sincerely, offer your dry, hypocritical, agnostic prayer; for God in His mercy accepts bad coin. <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57818" class="">If you have a hundred doubts of God, <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57819" class="">make them into ninety doubts. This is the way.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57820" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px;" class="">O, Seeker! Though you have broken your vows a hundred times, <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57821" class="">come again! Come again! <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57822" class="">For God has said, “Though you are on high or in the pit consider me, for I am the Way."</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57820" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57820" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre;"> </span><font color="#1d2129" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">- Jellaludin Rumi</font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488308078128_57823" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Translated By Daniel Liebert)</div><div style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></div></body></html>