Re: Mufti Menk gets on to my nerves.
Brother how can you not detect the stark contrast in the quality of these two statements? As a person studying linguistics you should be able to see the chasm there.
The first statement is asking us to be increasingly suspicious of others as we climb up the ladder of success … Then to ignore any who we deem to be the jealous type … But the paranoia? What if those people are giving us truth? What if they are helping?
The statement by Rumi is recognition of the Surah … Alm nashra laka sadraka … That after hardship there is ease …