Thinking in terms of profit and self-interest are signs of poverty.
Clean people follow God’s habit.
They contribute.
Some hidden return is expected from every generosity.
Once you reach His Love, there is no greed, no generosity.
But here and now, generosity is like taking a journey.
Greed is like standing still.
And, if you’ve boarded Noah’s Ark,
journeys and stations are not important.
In that Sea of Glory which covers everywhere,
all those forms and titles and names
which have piled up in hundreds of layers
will lose their quality and quantity.
In that Sea, everything turns to Him and becomes Him.
In this world of existence, O poor shepherd,
Love is the staff of Moses.
In real existence, in front of Him,
His manifestations and appearances
are nothing but forms created by a magician.
Escape from drowning in front of the whirlpool of flesh.
Existence and joy all come from that world
which gives light to this six-dimensional world.
Shake yourself off like a tree.
Shake off the green leaves as well as the dry ones.
Once the colors of goodness and badness disappear,
Union and Oneness appear.
Go on your way.
Don’t ask what or why,
because He is beyond quality and quantity.
You are a gazelle.
What are you doing with lions?
Be silent. Words are the sign of separation.
When a brave man is chewing bread,
how can he ask for more bread?
Divan-i Kebir, Volume 1, Ghazal 49, pages 123-124, verses 645-653.