Sufi parable from Sanaya Once upon a time there lived an old woman. She had an only daughter named Mahsiti.
One day Mahsiti was jinxed and she became seriously ill. The treatment did not help, and, seeing this, the old woman constantly wailed over her daughter:
“I wish I could die, mother, before you!”
But one day the old cow climbed into the house, stuck her head in the cauldron and could not free herself. So, with a cauldron on her head, she ran with a terrible roar. At the sight of such a monster, the old woman decided that the angel of death Azrael had flown to her, and screamed in fear:
- O angel of death! I'm not Mahsiti! I'm a miserable old woman. I'm healthy, not sick. For God's sake, don't mistake me for her. If you need Mahsiti, then take her and take her away, I agree!
This turned out to be her “love” for her daughter, and the truly loving Majnun freed a wild goat from a trap only because her eyes seemed similar to the eyes of his beloved Laili.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru