GUIDE AND THE FOLLOWER

Without an escort you're bewildered on a familiar road,
    don't travel alone on a way you haven't seen at all;
      don't turn your head away from the Guide

                                                                   RUMI

Your sight is failing and the road is long;
Trust one who knows the journey and is strong.
Whoever travels in a great lord's shade
Need never hesitate or be afraid;
Whoever under takes this lord's commands
Find thorns will change to roses in his hands.

                                                                     ATTAR

Since you're not spiritually perfect,
don't open a shop of your own.
     Be plain to the hand,
so you can become leavened and kneaded like dough.
      |Listen to the Divine Command, "keep silence."
                  Be mute
since you haven't become the tongue of God,
                be an ear.
           If you do speak,
  let it be to ask for explanations:
      Speak as a humble beggar
at the hand of spiritually great.

                                                RUMI


SOMETHING INVISIBLE

Once I asked my Master'
"What is the difference
  Between you and me?"

       And He replied,
       "Hafiz, only this:

If a herd of wild buffalo
 Broke into our house
 And knocked over
Our empty begging bowls,
Not a drop will spill from yours.

 But there is something Invisible
That God has placed in mine.

If that spill from my bowl,
It could drown this whole world."

                                                HAFIZ