— Widely circulated under Rumi’s name; no source identified
About this quote
हिन्दी में
पैगंबर हर पीड़ा को स्वीकार करते हैं और उस पर भरोसा भी करते हैं, क्योंकि पानी को आग से कभी डर नहीं लगा।
What it means
The reason offered is not courage. The prophets are said to trust agony — a heavier word than accept, implying the pain is doing something intended — and the ground given is a claim about constitution: water has no occasion to fear fire, because fire is the thing water is proof against. The fearlessness is not a virtue they worked up; it is a fact about what kind of thing they are.
Read as a general be-strong-under-suffering motto it loses its point, since it issues no instruction to be tough at all. And the image repays pressing: fire does boil water away, so the line holds only if water stands for the element fire cannot convert into itself, not for a promise of coming through unharmed. What it guarantees is that the agony cannot change what you are — a much narrower guarantee than safety.
What it teaches you
Before an ordeal you are dreading, name precisely what you think it can destroy. The list is usually a plan, a standing, or a version of the story you tell about yourself — and separating those from whatever would still be there afterwards is what makes the dread proportionate instead of total.
अर्थ और सीख
यहाँ निडरता की वजह हिम्मत नहीं, बनावट है — पानी को आग से डरने का कोई कारण नहीं, क्योंकि आग ही वह चीज़ है जिसके सामने पानी टिकता है। और ‘भरोसा करते हैं’ शब्द ‘सह लेते हैं’ से भारी है: पीड़ा को बेमक़सद नहीं माना जा रहा। सबक: जिस मुसीबत से आप डर रहे हैं, ठीक-ठीक गिनिए कि वह क्या मिटा सकती है — अक्सर वह कोई योजना या रुतबा निकलता है, आप नहीं।
