Their failures to achieve success the lovers are made aware of their Lord.

Unsuccessfulness is the guide to Paradise; listen, o good-natured man nature, to the tradition, “Paradise is surrounded by hardships”.

God says, “After all, grief and pain have made you imploring humbly and righteous.

Are you not really a hunter and seeker of Me? No, you are My servant, who prostrates himself before My command.

You are thinking of devices with which you might reach Me: both in being separated from Me and in seeking Me you are helpless.

Your anguish is seeking a means to reach Me: yesterday evening I heard your heavy sighs.

I am even able to give you access to and show you the way of passage without this waiting,

That you may be delivered from this whirlpool of Time and may set your foot on the treasure of Union with Me;

But the sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain of the journey.

Only then will you enjoy your native town and your kinsfolk when you suffer the pains and tribulations of exile.”

© Rumi