Rumi 17: “If there be any lover in the world, O Moslems,

“If there be any lover in the world, O Moslems, ’tis I.

If there be any believer, infidel, or Christian hermit, ’tis I.

The wine-dregs, the cupbearer, the minstrel, the harp, and

the music,

The beloved, the candle, the drink and the joy of the

drunken--’tis I.

The two-and-seventy creeds and sects in the world

Do not really exist: I swear by God that every creed and

sect--’tis I.

Earth and air and water and fire--knowest thou what they are?

Earth and air and water and fire, nay, body and soul too--’tis I.

Truth and falsehood, good and evil, ease and difficulty from first

to last,

Knowledge and learning and asceticism and piety and faith--’tis I.

The fire of Hell, be assured, with its flaming limbos,

Yes, and Paradise and Eden and the Houris--’tis I.

This earth and heaven with all that they hold,

Angels, Peris, Genies, and Mankind--’tis I.”