If you desire that Allah may be pleasing to you, then look at Him with the eyes of them that love Him. Look not at that beauty with your own eyes, look at that object of desire with His votaries' eyes. Shut your own eyes from beholding that sweet object, and borrow from His admirers their eyes. Nay, borrow from Him both eyes and sight and with those eyes of His look upon His face in order that you may not be disappointed with the sight.

Allah says, "Whoso is Allah's, Allah also is his." He says, "I am his eye, his hand, his heart," that his good fortune may emerge from adversity. Whatsoever is hateful to you, if it should lead you to your beloved, at once becomes agreeable to you.

~ RUMI ~