Kisah Sufi

A Sufi came to see Shabli, his teacher, weeping bitterly. “Why are you weeping?” Shabli asked him. “I had a friend whose beauty filled my heart. He died yesterday. Now I feel as if I will die of grief today.” “Grieve not! You enjoyed that friendship while it lasted. You must seek another,” Shabli said. “But this time, take as your friend one who will not die, and then you will have no cause to grieve. This attachment to what is mortal will always end in grief. Go seek your beloved in that place beyond which there is no beyond.”