Maulana Jalal Uddin Rumi (1207-1273) Every fantasy….

Every fantasy from Msanavi of Rumi..

Every fantasy devours another fantasy:
one thought feeds on another.
You can’t be delivered(set free( from fantasy
or fall asleep to escape from it altogether.
Your thoughts are like hornets, and your sleep is like the water
in which you are plunged: when you awake, the hornets return,
and many hornet-like fantasies fly in
and draw you now this way and then that way.
This mental fantasy is the least of the devourers:
the Almighty knows how great the others are.
Listen, flee from the hordes of devourers
towards the One who has said, ‘We are your protector’ [their
footnote: “Qur’an: Surah Al-Imran (The House of Imran), 3:150″];
or if you can’t hasten towards the Protector Himself,
towards the one who has gained that power of protection.”