God Shams and Mother Teresa
Shams Tabriz told us this story hundreds of years ago:
“Ya Musa if you come to Ali Babak Kief Tasan? (O Musa, what will you do if I come to the door of your house?”)
He said, O Lord, you are safe from this (Moses said, Lord, you are safe from going to the door of someone’s house)
Qal or Musa lo Jeet. (God said again: O Moses, what if I come?)
What would he say though? He answered that what would you do if it happened?
Akibat said: I am very hungry, leave the debate, prepare the food, I will come tomorrow.
made food; From Pege’s point of view, everything was ready, except that there was little water. That dervish came to give bread. Musa said: You have come well; And he gave two buckets in his hand to bring water. He said: I will serve a thousand; brought water Moses gave him bread. Darvish served and left.
It was late and Musa was waiting. The problem remains, what was the secret of this?
He asked that you promised and did not come? He said: “I came, but when are you going to give us bread, you didn’t bring water for two days!”
(Khumi from Rabbani wine: selected articles by Shams, Mohammad Ali Mohad, pp. 43 and 44)
Before mentioning the story, Shams mentions a part of the Qur’anic verse and hesitates on its meaning: “Aghrezwa Allah, is the end of God necessary?”
In the Quran, who is willing to lend to God?
Who is the one who gives a good loan to God so that [God] will multiply it for him? (Al-Baqarah, 245)
And Shams asks, does God need anything?
Then he brings this sweet story to tell how to care for and serve God and how to reach his threshold.
We hear this story and pass it by, and it doesn’t become a lasting and comprehensive insight in us.
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During her visit to Rome in 1983, Mother Teresa collapsed and was taken to the hospital. His distress was diagnosed as an acute heart problem. When Mother Teresa was hospitalized, she wrote a sincere answer to the question of Jesus Christ, “Who do you think that I am?” (Matthew, chapter 16, verse 15):
“. Jesus is the word to be spoken
Jesus is the truth that must be told
Jesus is the way to walk
Jesus is the light that needs to be lit
Jesus is life to be lived
Jesus is love to be adored
Jesus is a joy to be shared
Jesus is the sacrifice that must be offered
Jesus is the peace that must be given
Jesus is the morsel of life that must be swallowed
Jesus is a hungry man who needs to be fed
Jesus is a thirst that needs to be quenched
Jesus is naked to be covered
Jesus is a homeless person who needs shelter
Jesus is a disease that needs to be treated
Jesus is a lonely being who must be accepted
Jesus is an unwanted being that must be accepted
Jesus is a leper whose wounds must be washed
Jesus is empty-handed to be smiled upon
Jesus is the eternal drunkard whose words should be heard
Jesus is a fool who needs to be supported
Jesus is a baby who needs to be held
Jesus is a blind man who needs to be shown the way
Jesus is a deaf person who needs to be spoken to
Jesus is a disabled person who must be walked with
Jesus is a villain who must be saved from danger
Jesus is a prisoner to be met
Jesus is an old man who should be served.” (Mother Teresa; personal notes, translated by Parvin Adib, Parse Book Publishing, pp. 326-328)
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