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Audio file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-I-... -------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go, go, don't be afraid, you stay because you are not pure (Malawi, Masnavi al-Manavi, book 1, part 1 - beginning) ... there is something that remains, and when I look at it, I see that all my life is left with nothing. It is not lost. This is one of the key points of Maulana's school. The school of living in the present and not thinking about the past and the future and not regretting the past and not living in the past, throwing away the old clothes that you took off and wearing new clothes. This is the essence of Rumi's words. When you want to repent of your sin, Rumi's words are that repentance has no meaning, because repentance means returning to the past and looking at the past, and you should have buried this past in the same soil as the past. Of course, there are levels and types of repentance, and the highest level of repentance is that you don't return to sin and throw it away like the old clothes you took off and don't talk about it. ... Rumi says that there are lower levels of repentance that a person feels sorry for, but the most important repentance is to pass this stage, to leave at all, to come out of that house, to take off the old clothes, and to find a new existence that does not even remember that sin. He should not crave for that sin, he should be completely turned upside down and change his temper. ... Despite all this, the principle of repentance is to come out of the past and to come out of consciousness, according to Rumi, thinking about the present, that's all. We have no future and no past. What we have in our hands is our present. Some people waste their time because of the past or the future, while we have no capital except what we have now. Of course, this word has a wide scope, he said that this word should be called a broad translation in another article. ... -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- Source: Maulana Jalaluddin School of Rumi Commentary on Masnavi - First Book - 11th session of Abdul Karim Soroush