Can One Voice Reshape Faith Views? Rumi's Wisdom

📊Daily Poll📊 💭Can a single voice reshape your view of an entire faith? Image 📷 artist :Jan Schmuckal (It is an original oil painting depicting a tonalist landscape. The scene features two figures sitting beneath a large oak tree.) ✨️Inspiration✨️ So trump ended up tacking on 2 more weeks to his threats last night And I can't help but to notice a ripple of islamophobia in my fb newsfeed which gave me an idea for a spicy daily poll I am a Christian adjacent mystic, who admires an Muslim mystic poet, Rumi (sufi) Rumi's words and poetry are very women affirming so in my head when people try to portray Islam as a woman hating religion, my mind counters maybe an extreme traditional version maybe, but it can't all be lumped together 🌚💯 It's the equivalent of the pagan/atheist assumption/caricature of Christianity involving desires to blow up planned parenthood clinics or burn LGBT friendly churches down 🫠 😭 I'm interfaith/syncretist & I notice geopolitical tribalism is reaching dehumanizing levels ❤️‍🩹 I refuse to participate in blind cultural hatred, I'd much rather illuminate how connected everything truly is 🥹🖤 Ending with a massive compilation of my favorite Rumi quotes that make me impervious to Western propaganda 😇😅 📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝 ❤️‍🔥"Woman is a beam of the divine Light. She is not the being whom sensual desires takes as its object. She is Creator, it should be said" ❤️‍🔥Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. ❤️‍🔥Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. ❤️‍🔥What you seek is seeking you. ❤️‍🔥Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ❤️‍🔥If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? ❤️‍🔥My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. ❤️‍🔥silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. ❤️‍🔥Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment ❤️‍🔥Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. ❤️‍🔥I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. ❤️‍🔥Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames ❤️‍🔥Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open? ❤️‍🔥Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ❤️‍🔥And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself? ❤️‍🔥You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. ❤️‍🔥I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. ❤️‍🔥Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. ❤️‍🔥Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged ❤️‍🔥You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck! ❤️‍🔥When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ❤️‍🔥You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'. ❤️‍🔥Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

Inspired by Islamophobic reactions to political events, a Christian-adjacent mystic poses a poll questioning if a single voice can reshape views of an entire faith, using Rumi's affirming poetry to argue against monolithic portrayals of Islam and Christianity. The post critiques geopolitical tribalism, advocates for interconnectedness, and shares Rumi quotes promoting self-change, unity, and spiritual seeking over dogma.

@wavypurple the whole quote 🥹❤️‍🔥

@rebelkatt oooh wow didn’t know the whole quote. The “stay with it” part is crucial. I am the tree and the tree stays 🌳