Beautiful Sufi poem

Hannah sent me a link to this beautiful Sufi poem below:

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"We all aspire to the same goal:
to worship God in a way
that satisfies us and that pleases the Lord. Looking at it in this way
provides a basis for all people of faith
to find common cause and find a way
to achieve harmony and to work.
It is like we are all together inside
a big black box
with many pinholes along the exterior.
We look out and see
pinpoints of light shining in.
Each person picks one source of light
and says ' that is the one I follow'.
But outside the box,
there is only one sun shining."

-- Shyakh Hisham Kabbani (of Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi Order)in an interview with the Middle East Quarterly in 2000. The above quote, so beautifully put, has been taken from an article 'Sufi antidote to religious terrorism' by Mafoot Simon, The Straits Times, 12 September 2006.

'The Milky Way is as flotsum on the vast ocean of estatic love.' -- Rumi (born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi, 1207-1273