Masnavi III, 3210-12
Where there is pain, cures will come; where there
is poverty, wealth will follow.
Where there are questions, answers will be given;
where there are ships, water will flow.
Spend less time seeking water and acquire thirst!
Then water will gush from above and below.
"The Sufi Path of Love - The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi"
Translated by William C. Chittick
State University of New York Press, Albany, 1983
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