God’s Attributes: Essence & Effects. {231.}

God’s Attributes: Essence & Effects. {231.}
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“Everyone can see the effects of God’s mercy.
But who, except God himself,
understands the essence of his mercy?
Most people cannot understand
the essence of any of God’s attributes;
they only know his attributes through their effects
and also through analogy.
Only mystics have eyes to see
the essence of God’s attributes.”

---- Jalaluddin Rumi; Mathnawi.
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First Earn & Then Spend. {224.}

First Earn & Then Spend. {224.}
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“God has said, ‘Spend’; so earn something,
since there can be no expenditure without income.
Although He used the word, ‘Spend’ absolutely,
read it, ‘Earn, then spend’.”

---- Jalaluddin Rumi; Mathnawi {V, 579-580}.
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