MATHNAVI-E-AKHTAR:

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"What has become deficient in the body of this maid servant
That you notice to make you turn away in disappointment?
What has departed from her body that you now experience aversion to her?

The Sheikh then showed the container
Which had become filled with the girl's faeces
And said: "Look at it, 0 Seeker!
It is only this which had left her body.
Thus your beloved, in fact was these faeces.
It is over this thing that you became a mad man.
And now that through the purgative she has become weak and pale.
The love that you felt has vanished and is gone."

The Sheikh asked the Mureed: "Tell me, if you really loved this girl then how is it that this love has now turned to dislike and aversion? "

Through this plan of the Sheikh, it soon dawned upon the Mureed that he had become involved with sensual love. He became ashamed of it and in sorrow and lamentations, he repented to Allah. Through this repentance and sorrow he was eventually endowed with true Divine Love.

Hazrat Maulana Rumi (R.A.) drew this advise from the story:
"0 people, today you fall in love with a well-musk-scented one with curly locks of hair. One day that same lock of hair will appear worse to you than the tail of an old donkey. "
"Those very eyes that cause you to become intoxicated
And for which you 'are prepared to sacrifice your life,
In old age will have dirty water dripping from, them.
Look at a beautiful child who through his beauty becomes Master among men
But look when old age overtakes him, he becomes worthless among men.
Look how lovely and fresh the sun appears at the time of rising,
But remember its death at the time of setting.
See how splendid the moon appears on the fourteenth night,
But check how is its sorrowful state as it begins to wane.
O Man, you are in love with good food and fine outward form,
But see the result thereof in the toilet afterwards.
The people of this world, like the world are truly unfaithful.
When it turns its face towards you, then know it is not the face,
It is merely the back of the head.
Now that you have come to know the unfaithfulness of the world   and worldly people,
Then establish love contact with the saints of Allah and with no      other beings except them."

A sign of being accepted by Allah is to sit in the company of the friends of Allah and become disconnected from the worldly things. When being inclined towards Allah, one must be outwardly a follower of the Sunnat and at the same time seek the company of a saintly one, who also follows the Sunnat. After attaining this virtue, one should never seek miracles from them because miracles and Kashf are involuntary occurrences. Such involuntary occurrences have nothing to do with being accepted or not by Allah. Miracles are not a sign of being Allah's chosen one or not. Allah has not placed the criterion for acceptance by Him or nearness to Him on involuntary matters. Regarding the despicable and transitory nature of illusory beauty, I have written a poem entitled: "Word of warning regarding sensual love" and for the benefit of readers I quote it here. May Allah accept it and make it beneficial for all men.

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