魯米(Rumi,1207—1273）
《瑪斯納維》第三卷,故事一：
吃掉小象的旅人
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上帝賜下法老(Pharaoh)無數的財富，以致於他自詡為「至高無上的主」。
他一生無憂無慮，因此，他從未向上帝哭訴，儘管他本是罪人。
上帝賦予他統治世界的絕對權力，卻讓他免受痛苦、悲傷和憂慮；
因為痛苦、悲傷和重擔，是上帝在世上朋友的命運。
痛苦勝過統治世界，這樣你才能在隱密處呼求上帝。
無痛者的哭聲沉悶而冰冷，悲傷者的哭聲來自燃燒的心靈。
Rumi,(1207—1273）:
Masnavi,Volumn III,STORY I.
The Travelers who ate the Young Elephant.
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God gave Pharaoh abundance of riches and wealth,
So that he boasted that he was 'Lord Supreme.'
In the whole of his life he suffered no headache,
So that he never cried to God, wretch that he was.
God granted him the absolute dominion of the world,
But withheld from him pain and sorrow and cares;
Because pain and sorrow and loads of cares
Are the lot of God's friends in the world.
Pain is better than the dominion of the world,
So that thou mayest call on God in secret.
The cries of those free from pain are dull and cold,
The cries of the sorrowful come from the burning hearts.