As John Hick put it, pluralism is the belief that no one religion has a monopoly of the truth or of the life that leads to salvation.[16] In the poetic words of the great Sufi, Rumi, speaking of the religions of the world, "The lamps are different but the Light is the same; it comes from beyond" (Rumi: Poet and Mystic, trans. R.A. Nicholson, London and Boston: Unwin, p. 166).