Can The God Of Love Also Deceive & Fool People?
"You are the king's son.
Why do you close yourself up?
Become a lover.Do not aspire to be a general
or a minister of state.One is a boredom for you,
the other a disgrace.You have been a picture on a bathhouse wall long enough.
No one recognizes you here, do they?God's LION disguised as a human being.
I saw that and put down the book I was studying.There is no early and late for us.
The only way to measure a lover
is by the grandeur of the beloved.Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle.
SHAMS is invisible because he is inside sight.He is the intelligent essence
of what is everywhere at once, seeing.~Poem by Rumi and/or Shams
So, might my mention recently in one of my podcasts about Rumi having been a woman turn out to be false? Shams, whom Rumi venerated and "loved", does seem to impossibly have been the "husband" of Rumi, as I had mentioned, since this poem seems to make things clearer as for who Shams might be instead.