Reading Rumi after 9/11 and again at the end of the War in Afghanistan (part 1)

Artwork detail from “Study on Human Migrations and Children’s Tears” by Aberjhani ©2021)

“People cage parrots and nightingales to hear the sound of their sweet songs.
But how should they put crows and owls into cages?
Who indeed has heard tale of that? …
Know for certain that this is the reason
the believers suffer disappointment in good and evil.”
   ––Rumi (translation by William Chittick from The Sufi Path of Love, p. 243)
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The reasons people winced, cried, screamed, and prayed viewing imag...