MAN OF GOD
The universe as we know it is the
creation of God whose attributes are too many to be numbered. All men of all
religions and faiths, beliefs and disbeliefs, are His children. There is , however,
a difference between men and men.. Some
men get absorbed in the temptations of the world and forget God most of the time.
Man is never a self-ruler. He is
never independent of God’s assistance. In sickness and misfortune, he has to direct
his mind towards God for necessary help to regain normalcy. Those men who are
devoted to God are substantially men of God and have specific qualities.
Quoted below is a bunch of poetic lines in which the Persian
mystic and poet Jalal al- Din Muhammad
Rumi (1207-1273) says that a man who transcends discursive knowledge and
attains to Divine knowledge is the ‘Man of God,’ and the perfect man. Such a
man assimilates God himself but does not lose his own individuality.
The English version the of Persian
lines that follow is by the writer and translator R.A.Nicholson (1868-1945).
“The man of God is drunken without
wine,
The man of God is full without meet
The man of God is distraught and
bewildered,
The man of God has no food or sleep.
The man of God is a king ‘neath
dervish cloak,
The man of God is a treasure in a
ruin.
The man of God is not of air and
earth,
The man of God is not of fire and
water.
The man of God is a boundless sea,
The man of God rains pearls without a
cloud.
The man of God hath hundred moons and
skies,
The man of God hath hundred suns.
The man of God is made wise by the Truth,
The man of God is not learned from
book.
The man of God is beyond infidelity
and religion.
To the man of God right and wrong are
alike.
The man of God has ridden away from
from Not-being.
The man of God is gloriously attended.
The man of God is concealed, Shamsi
Din,
The man of God do thou seek and find.
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Note: Shamsi means “of the sun,
sunny, or solar”. The friend of Rumi was also called Shams.
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G.R.Kanwal
30 December 2025
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