" Come,, Come,, Whoever You Are ! " ... ' Its Link to the Masnavi '...

The Quatrain ....................................................................................................................................... Come, come, whoever you are, come again, Unbeliever, fire-worshipper, idolater, come again. This lodge of ours is not a lodge of despair, Even if you have broken your repentance a hundred times, come again. ......................................................................................................................................... A Door Open to All ........................................................................................................................................ The quatrain does not ask the person at the door who they are. It does not ask which religion they come from, which nation they belong to, or what they did in the past. It says so itself: “Whoever you are, come again.” In the second line it names, one by one, those who stand furthest away, and to them too it says “come again.” So the door does not close even on the most distant person. ........................................................................................................................................ Although the sources dispute who wrote the quatrain, it is not by chance that it is linked with Rumi. For Rumi too, in his Masnavi, teaches people to be brought together, not separated from one another. In the Masnavi’s story of Moses and the Shepherd, God addresses Moses, who has scolded the shepherd, with these words: “You came to unite, not to divide.” ........................................................................................................................................ There is a trace of this in Rumi’s own life as well. According to his son Sultan Walad, when Rumi died in Konya in 1273, a great crowd of every religion and every sect attended ....................... from ...sufiphilosophy.org