It was as if he could see through the wooden door.
My heart pounded like mad. I wanted to run back to the kitchen but couldn’t see how. My arms, my
legs, my whole body froze. Through and beyond the door, the dark eyes of Shams of Tabriz were fixed
upon me. As terrified as I was, I also felt a tremendous amount of energy rushing through my body. He
approached, put his hand on the door handle, but just when I thought he was about to open the door and
catch me, he stopped. I couldn’t see his face from this close and had no idea what had changed his mind.
We waited like that for an unbearably long minute. Then he turned his back, and as he paced away from
the door, he continued with his story.
“When
I got a little older, I asked God to take away my ability to dream,
so that every time I
encountered Him, I would know I wasn’t dreaming. He agreed. He took them all away. That’s why I never
dream.”
Shams of Tabriz now stood by the open windows across the room. Outside, there was a light drizzle,
and he watched it pensively before he said, “God took away my ability to dream. But to compensate for
that loss, He allowed me to interpret the dreams of others. I am a dream interpreter.”
I expected Baba Zaman not to believe this nonsense and to scold him, as he scolds me all the time.
But instead the master nodded respectfully and said, “You seem to be an unusual person. Tell me, what
can I do for you?”
“I don’t know. Actually, I was hoping you could tell me that.”
“What do you mean?” asked the master, sounding puzzled.
“For almost forty years, I have been a wandering dervish. I am skilled in the ways of nature, although
the ways of society are still alien to me. If necessary, I can fight like a wild animal, but I myself cannot
hurt anyone. I can name the constellations in the sky, identify the trees in the forests, and read like an open
book the types of people the Almighty has created in His image.”
Shams paused briefly and waited as the master lit an oil lamp. Then he continued. “One of the rules
says,
You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined
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