Both ecstasy and sobriety in love!
The oblivion is of two kinds;
one is forgetfulness of the world
which makes us forget first about the memory
then about the future world;
the other way of oblivion is preoccupation
with thoughts of the future world,
so that one forgets oneself as well,
and one plays with the world
as a cat plays with a mouse.
Through association with a man of God,
he has obtained a position - that of Shaykh,
what after thirty years of prayer could never obtain.
The third way of forgetfulness is love for God,
so that man forgets both this world
and the future world;
this is the meaning of the saying:
"This world is forbidden to men of the future world,
and the future world is forbidden to men of this world;
and both, this world and the future world,
are forbidden to men of God (A saying of the Prophet);
that is, that he should forget everything but God;
Mawlana (Rumi) enjoys ecstacy in love;
for him there is no sobriety in love,
but for me there is both ecstasy and sobriety in love.
For me there is no such oblivion in drunkenness;
how does the world dare to conceal me with a veil
or to be concealed from me with a veil?
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