When we used a word suffering what does it means, is suffering a painfull, yes it is. Is suffering is a long lasting thing, yes it will be depend on your destiny. So why it is a gift, is rumi likes it or he is a madman, or rumi doesn’t understand this term.
When we think word suffering it’s very horrible, and then about happiness it’s feeling good. So how God has a gift of misery. Is God is ruthless it give gift of misery for her humans?
Let’s find out as I personally follow Sufism but from religion I am a sikh, but I doesn’t have any problem about that.
In rumi ideology the term love is used frequently he connect everything with love in love there is no differs in happiness and sorrow and God test their love for sake of ourselves, why didn’t God have pity on lovers. Where this will a test without test God doesn’t justify a true lover. God gave a gift of suffering to weaken their faith, you must have to make a unshakable faith pass this test.god gave unlimited problems on them. They drop out everything for sake of god. They become beggar in eyes of God. It’s not a journey for scared people one who handle this pain is blessed the grace of God.
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