Coloured Glasses
Rule 21: When a true lover of God goes into a tavern, the tavern becomes his chamber of prayer, but when a winebibber goes into the same chamber, it becomes his tavern. In everything we do, it is our hearts that make the difference, not our outer appearance. Sufis do not judge other people on how they look or who they are. When a Sufi stares at someone, he keeps both eyes closed and instead opens the third eye – the eye that sees the inner realm. "You become a child with kids", is what I am told often by my relatives. The tone in which it is delivered clearly suggests that it doesn't mean a positive thing in the dictionary of some of them. I ponder over it and still don't realise the real harm in becoming a child with the children. When we go temple, don't we become a little more pious? Or when we go to office, don't we become a little more business-like? Or when we go to a party, aren't we a bit in a party mood? So, when entering the kids' doma