The Beloved

Lesson 35: The Beloved

In all the worlds and heavens
not a bird moves a wing
not a straw trembles
but by God's eternal law.
No one can explain this
and no one should try.
Who can number the roses
in the Almighty's rose garden?
How could the Beloved be
snared in a net of words?

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)