SCENT OF BELOVED

I was speaking one day among a group of people, and a party of non-muslim was present.
In the middle of my address they began to weep and to register emotion and ecstasy. Some one asked: What do they understand and what do they know? Only one muslim in a thousand understand this kind of talk. What did they understand, that they should weep? The Master (i-e Rumi himself) answered: It is not necessary that they should understand the form of the discourse; that which constitutes the root and principle of the discourse, that they understand. After all, everyone acknowledge the Oneness of God, that He is the creator and provider, that He controls everything that to Him all things shall return, and that it is He who punishes and forgives. When anyone hears these words, which are a description and commemoration (dhikr) of God, a universal commotion and ecstatic passion supervenes, since out of these words come the scent of their Beloved and their Quest.

RUMI

REFERENCE: THE OTHER IN THE LIGHT OF THE ONE
BY RAZA SHAH KAZMI