MERCY
IS ENDLESS
Many saints, seers, sages, poets and
religious philosophers believe that the world is a prison.
There are also such thinkers as regard the body a temporal prison and the imperishable
soul a time-bound prisoner therein.
The body is punished through different ways because people commit several lapses, crimes and sins
and ultimately seek for mercy.
The amazing fact is that if people get mercy once, they do
not give up their addiction to aberrations and repeat their evil deeds for which their
prayers for forgiveness accepted and
mercy was granted.
Some metaphysical poets
have applied their minds to the question of granting mercy again and again to
the sinner. The only condition for him is that he should reach the stage of irrevocable
sinlessness.
The Persian metaphysical poet Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) says to every
chronic sinner:
“Come, come, whoever you are,
Wanderer, the worshipper. Lover of
leaving
This is not a caravan of despair.
It does not matter that you have
broken your vow
A thousand times, still come, and yet
again come.”
.Finally, have another view about mercy by
the great English -poet playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616). He says in
a sonnet:
The quality of mercy is not straine’d,
It droppeth like the gentle rain from
heave,
Upon the place beneath: it is twice
blessed;
It blesseth him that gives and him
that takes:
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his
crown;
His sceptre shows the force of
temporal power;
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear
of kings;
But mercy is above the sceptred sway,
It is enthroned in the hearts of
kings,
It is an attribute to God himself,
An earthly power doth then show
likest God’s
When mercy seasons justice.
*****
G.R.Kanwal
19th December 2024
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