"There is a tradition that Muhammad said, 'A wise man will listen and be led by a woman while an ignorant man will not.' Someone too fiercely drawn by animal urges lacks kindness and the gentle affections that keep men human.
Anger and sharp desiring are animal qualities. A loving tenderness toward women shows someone no longer pulled along by wanting. The core of the feminine comes directly as a ray of the sun. Not the earthy figure you hear about in love songs; there's more to her mystery than that. You might say she's not from the manifest at all, but the creator of it."
~ The Soul of Rumi, Translation by Coleman Barks
Pic: Courtesy of Kirtida Mekani
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