Search Him Practically Not Black And White Poem by Rhymer Rhymer

We may ask:
Why we should worship God
And whether the theoretical knowledge of His law in nature is not sufficient
For the highest realization
The answer is: no.
Theoretical knowledge of a subject can never take the place of experience,
Which is necessary for realization?
Written music cannot entertain us
Unless it is played,
Nor the description of perfume delight our senses unless we smell it,
No recipes of the most delicious dishes satisfy our hunger unless we taste it
Nor can the theory of God give complete joy and peace;
we must actually realize God or attain that state of realization which gives eternal happiness through the admiration and worship of nature's beauty and its source
'The Beloved is all in all, the lover only veils him; the Beloved is all that lives, the lover a dead thing

' (from Jalalud-Din Rumi) .