"A Candle About To Burn Out" interpretation of Rumi

When candle becomes one with the flame,

at that very moment before its own annihilation

it casts no shadow.

It becomes nothing,
but a tongue of light.

Look at this stub
as is about to finish
as someone who is finally safe
from all virtues and vices of life
-- the pride and the shame
which were born of these.


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Rumi, the 12th century Sufi mystic is showing us the main concept of
oneness with God in Islam (tawhid) -- when the person finds herself at
total peace and love, where there is no pride and shame, where there
is no duality or confusion.