The Great Satan Eblis, according to Rumi, gave words of advicewords that are important, it seems, for human conversation. "No man who thinks ill, will hear the truth despite a hundred signs.

To a Sufi like Rumi, Satan is not a negative creature, as indeed these words of his testify: One recurring failure in history is the failure to listen. Signs, words and symbols that lead to truth have still not made people change and understand. And so it conti