Who Am I? - من انا

The Strangest Secret in the World

2011-12-29T22:32:00.001+08:00

The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale has sold over a million copies and is the only gold record ever achieved for the spoken word. Its message is simple, yet powerful, and it became the basis for the Nightingale-Conant Corporation. Many thousands of people have attributed this recording with turning their lives around and helping them make their fortunes in the world.

And the secret is… “We become what we think about.”

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Who Are You.....Really?

2011-12-26T10:29:00.002+08:00

It’s really easy to put a narrow, little box around our beings, summing up everything we are into an quickly recallable identity. The mind just works that way, it can only process one thought at a time. So often the easiest way to look at ourselves is as these small, insignificant specks.

The great news is we are from from it. We are infinite beings, so large and magnificent that conscious thought wouldn’t even try to put a label on us. So next time you feel down about the narrow-minded chatter telling you how small you are on this planet, take a look at this video for a remind of just how wrong those thoughts are.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Is Your Energetic Frequency Sabotaging Your Dream Life?

2011-12-22T09:17:00.000+08:00

ntuitive medium and energetic healer Christie Marie Sheldon, talks about the most common reason people struggle with manifesting--no matter how hard they try or what Law of Attraction or personal growth tool they use.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Change Your Frequency To Change Your Reality

2011-12-20T12:30:00.001+08:00

A must see video for everyone.

Christie Marie Sheldon will change your life. Energy healer and author of Love or Above breathes the kind of talent we wish we had.

Christie was born with the gift of seeing your energy vibrations. She'll tell you in an instant what's standing between your goals and dreams. At last year's Awesomeness Fest, Christie shared the realities which creates our blocks and taught us how to overcome it. So if you're ready to unlock your truest potential, check this insightful video out..

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Sow Flowers

2011-09-07T12:54:00.002+08:00

Sow flowers to make a garden bloom around you,
The thorns you sow will prick your own feet.

Arrows shot at others
Will return to hit you as they fall.

You yourself will come to teeter on the lip
Of a well dug to undermine another.

Though you look at others with contempt,
It's you whose body will be reduced to dust.

Humanity is all one body;
To torture another is simply to wound yourself.

When you don't look for faults in others,
They will conceal your weaknesses in return.

Make your path straight now, by the bright light of day;
For pitch darkness will come without warning.

Consider no wickedness insignificant, however slight;
For the little deeds of darkness soon pile up.

If another does you harm, return them good;
Or evil will devour you too.

The heart that is safe in the storm
Is the one which carries
Others' burdens
Like a
Boat.

-- from The Poetry of Rahman Baba: Poet of the Pashtuns, translated by Robert Sampson and Momin Khan

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE

2011-09-06T10:28:00.001+08:00

Knowledge said to me, Love is madness;
Love said to me, Knowledge is calculation—
O slave of calculation, do not be a bookworm!
Love is Presence entire, Knowledge nothing but a Veil.
The universe is moved by the warmth of Love;
Knowledge deals with the Attributes, Love is a vision of the Essence;
Love is peace and permanence, Love is Life and Death:
Knowledge is the rising question, Love is the hidden answer.
Kingdom, faith and faqr are all miracles of Love;
The crowned kings and lords are base slaves of Love;
Love is the Space and the Creation, Love is Time and Earth!
Love is conviction entire, and conviction is the key!
The luxury of destination is forbidden in the religion of Love;
Fighting the storms is permitted, but the comfort of the shore is forbidden;
Lightning is permitted to Love, Harvest is forbidden.
Knowledge is the child of the Book, Love is the mother of the Book.

~ Allama Muhammad Iqbal

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Veil

2011-08-30T11:10:00.001+08:00

O' Beloved,
I thought You
were so distant from me,
hiding beyond a veil.
Now I see
its my own veil,
my own lack of clear vision.
Why do I wear this veil
that keeps You distant from me?
Fashion?
Custom?
Habit?

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Each, Alone

2011-08-28T10:50:00.001+08:00

Each, Alone
We help each other discover a path,
We help each other travel the path,
Yet each must walk alone on their personal path,
Each must surrender alone, in private.
No one else can surrender for us,
No one else can take away the separation
that we have chosen.
No one else can surrender for us,
No one else can take away the pain
that we have chosen.
Oh Beloved, I walk alone,
empty,
into Your arms.
Each in their own time,
into Your arms.
Each in their own way,
into Your arms.
Each, alone, one by one,
into Your arms.
Each, alone, by their own desire,
into Your arms.
Each, alone, one by one,
into Sweet Surrender.

Wahiduddin from Rendezvous with the Beloved

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Mind over Matter - revisited

2010-12-08T09:02:00.006+08:00

Read the article Mind over Matter: Other name for Illusion. Click Here

Past video Part 1
Past video Part 2
Past video Part 3

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Aku berikan DiriKu kepadamu!

2010-11-26T18:17:00.000+08:00

Allah mewahyukan kepada Nabi Isa a.s.: Wahai Isa! Hati-hatilah, jangan sampai Aku terlepas daripadamu! Yakni, jangan sampai engkau memilih yang lain daripada Aku, lalu engkau kehilangan Aku! Nabi Musa a.s. berdoa kepada Allah: Ya Allah! Berilah aku sesuatu anugerah! Allah menjawab: Aku berikan DiriKu kepadamu! Kemudian Nabi Musa a.s. memohon lagi: Ya Allah! Berikan aku sesuatu pemberian! Allah menjawab lagi: Aku berikan DiriKu kepadamu! Sehingga berulang empat kali, Nabi Musa a.s. meminta kepada Allah s.w.t, namun jawaban Allah sama belaka, iaitu: Aku berikan DiriKu kepadamu!

Nyatalah kini, bahawa makrifat hamba akan Zat Tuhan yang menciptanya itu adalah anugerah utama yang diberikan kepada para Nabi dan Rasul, para shiddiqin dan salihin. Itulah kumia yang terbesar yang harus diminta oleh seseorang hamba, sebagaimana yang disarankan oleh Syekh Abdul Qadir AI-Jailani, maka perhatikanlah apa yang disarankannya itu!

Allah Ta'ala mencipta alam dan segala yang terisi di dalamnya, termasuk makhlukNya yang berupa jin, manusia dan Malaikat adalah untuk disembah. Setiap yang disembah itu mestilah dikenali terlebih dahulu, dan kalau masih belum dikenali mestilah dicari sehingga dapat dikenali. Lantaran itu, maka Zat yang disembah itu adalah umpama 'perbendaharaan yang tersembunyi', yang mesti dicari lalu dikenali sebelum disembah. Kalau Dia gagal untuk dikenali, bagaimana dapat pula disembah..

Jadi maksud dari 'perbendaharaan yang tersembunyi' itu ialah hakikat Zat Allah yang menciptakan makhlukNya untuk dicari dan dikenali, lalu disembahi sebagai Tuhan Maha Pencipta.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

A wonderful Sufi quote:

2010-11-11T11:28:00.000+08:00

"In fact, what separates man from divine Reality is but a thin partition: God is infinitely close to man, but man is infinitely far from God. This partition, for man is a mountain; man stands in front of a mountain which he must remove with his own hands. He digs away the earth, but in vain, the mountain remains; man however goes on digging, in the name of God. And the mountain vanishes. It was never there."

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

The Alchemy Of Happiness

2010-10-19T09:08:00.005+08:00

God has sent on earth a hundred and twenty-four thousand prophets
to teach men the prescription of this alchemy, and how to purify their
hearts from baser qualities in the crucible of abstinence. This alchemy
may be briefly described as turning away from the world to God, and its
constituents are four:

1. The knowledge of self.
2. The knowledge of God.
3. The knowledge of this world as it really is.
4. The knowledge of the next world as it really is.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

The Power of Silence

2010-08-16T13:15:00.000+08:00

A story is told about a woman who went to a healer and said to him, 'My husband is very bad tempered. Every evening when he comes home he scolds me and there is quarrel that ends in a very disgraceful manner. Can you give me a remedy for it?' The healer said, 'Certainly,' and gave her seven pieces of candy, explaining, 'These are charmed pieces of candy. When your husband comes home, put one of these in your mouth.' When I did so, and that evening there was no quarrel: such a miracle, after ten years of continuing quarreling! The next day the woman went to the healer, thanked him a thousand times and told him that he had done such a miracle. She said, 'I do not know what to do to thank you. I want you to give me a big box of that candy which might last for some time.' the healer answered, 'The candy is not necessary, silence is needed.' This teaches us that often we quarrel only because of our speech. Silence is a great peacemaker. 'Blessed are the peacemakers.'

The Art of Being - Inayat Khan

"For the ignorant there is no better rule than silence and if he knew its advantage he would not be ignorant."

Saadi

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Learn to be still

2010-08-10T13:02:00.001+08:00

It's just another day in paradise
As you stumble to your bed
You'd give anything to silence
Those voices ringing in your head
You thought you could find happiness
Just over that green hill
You thought you would be satisfied
But you never will-
Learn to be still

We are like sheep without a shepherd
We don't know how to be alone
So we wander 'round this desert
And wind up following the wrong gods home
But the flock cries out for another
And they keep answering that bell
And one more starry-eyed messiah
Meets a violent farewell-
Learn to be still
Learn to be still

Now the flowers in your garden
They don't smell so sweet
Maybe you've forgotten
The heaven lying at your feet

[Solo]

There are so many contradictions
In all these messages we send
(We keep asking)
How do I get out of here
Where do I fit in?
Though the world is torn and shaken
Even if your heart is breakin'
It's waiting for you to awaken
And someday you will-
Learn to be still
Learn to be still

You just keep on runnin'
Keep on runnin'

©1994 By Don Henley and Stan Lynch and the Eagles

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

If...

2010-08-05T16:02:00.001+08:00

IF YOU CAN DISENTANGLE
yourself from your selfish self
all heavenly spirits
will stand ready to serve you

if you can finally hunt down
your own beastly self
you have the right
to claim Solomon's kingdom

you are that blessed soul who
belongs to the garden of paradise
is it fair to let yourself
fall apart in a shattered house

you are the bird of happiness
in the magic of existence
what a pity when you let
yourself be chained and caged

but if you can break free
from this dark prison named body
soon you will see
you are the sage and the fountain of life

Rumi poem translated by Nader Khalili

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

THE ROSE GARDEN OF LOVE

2010-07-28T16:25:00.003+08:00

Even if the two worlds were prison cells
They would be orchard gardens for me,
When the Friend bestows His favor
On me, I am not sad, I do not grieve.

If I were the slave of the Friend
I would flower like an opening rose,
I would be the nightingale singing of love,
I would live in the rose garden of love.

My eyes have seen the Beloved's face,
And my face is dust to the friends of God,
But for those who understand
My words, they are sweet sugar cane.

If you give up the claims of the world
And fly up all the way to the Beloved,
If you drink the wine of love,
You will certainly be drunk with enchantment.

If I cannot see You, both this world
And the hereafter are prison cells
For my eyes. Whoever knows Your love
Must surely be the purest and the best.

My inner self has never tired of Your love,
My tongue speaks of You in spite of myself,
Yunus, may these words of yours
Be an epic tale for all the worlds.

Poem by Yunus Emre (AD. 1240 - 1320)

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Prophets and the Martyrs will envy them !

2010-07-23T08:27:00.006+08:00

It is reported by Sayidina Omar r.a, Prophet Muhammad s.a.w said:

“Surely, some of God blessed servants are neither Prophets nor Martyrs; they are special People, who on the Day of Reckoning, the Prophets and the Martyrs will envy them for their ranks and nearness to their God.”

“A Companion asked,

“O Messenger of God (pbuh), who are they, and what kind of deeds do they perform so that we may love Them as well?"

Messenger of God (pbuh) said,

“They are People who love one another in God, even though they have no consanguineous (of the same blood or origin) ties, money to exchange or worldly business to barter with. I swear by God on the Reckoning, their faces will be effulgent lights and they will be raised on Pulpits of Light. They will not be subject to fear when the creation is seized by the awesomeness of the Day of Resurrection, nor will they be subjected with sorrow when the rest of creation will be seized by it." He then recited from Surah Yunus: 62, أَلَا إِنَّ أَوْلِيَاءَ اللَّهِ لَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ “Surely, God’s Deputies (Aulia) are not subject to fear (both in this world and the next, for they will always find My help and support with them) nor shall they grieve”

So who are these people and what are their characteristic? You may find some of the answer from our earlier posting...
Who is these so call Aulia-ul-Allah (In Malay)
Realities of those who knows (In Malay)

Even though we may not be one of them, at least we must have the firm believe that they do exist on this earth, around us, even today. Only their identity is kept secret from us.

أَوْلِيآئِى تَحْتَ قُبَابِي لَا يَعْرِفُهُمْ غَيْرى My friends are under My Dome where no one recognize them except me."

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Knowledge is to understand who you are.

2010-07-21T16:12:00.001+08:00

Knowledge is to understand
To understand who you are.
If you know not who you are
What's the use of learning?

The aim in learning is
To understand God's Truth.
Because without knowledge
It is wasted hard labour.

Do not say: I know it all,
I am obedient to my God.
If you know not who God is
That is sheer idle talk.

Twenty-eight syllables
You read from end to end.
You name the first `alpha''
What can it possibly mean?

Yunus Emre says also
Let me receive what I need.
The best possible thing
Is to find perfect peace.

Poem by Yunus Emre (AD. 1240 - 1320)

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

To be a Lover

2010-07-14T17:12:00.001+08:00

"Even if it be after thousand years, these words will reach those for whom they're intended" - Rumi

Whoever claims to be a lover
Does not think of passion or desires,
Whoever comes to the house of love
Has no interest in anything, no attachment to anything.

Whoever is a true lover no longer
Remembers this world and the hereafter,
Whoever expects titles and struts
With arrogance is not a true lover.

Arrogance and honor belong
To love of this world,
Whoever loves the titles of the world
Never talks about love.

Whoever talks about love with his tongue alone,
Does not know what love is,
So here is my explanation,
Love is exalted in a priceless way.

It is slanderous to call someone a lover
Who does not renounce love of the world,
Love does not come to an inner heart
Filled with arrogance and love of the world.

Love does not accept arrogance
Or love of the world:
These are not my words, love itself
Does not find them correct.

Let those whose hearts taste love
Forget about everything except love,
No other vehicle but love
Will reach the presence of the Friend.

Let those who are true lovers
Walk the path with love,
Whoever uses the eye of the inner heart
Never stumbles into traps along the way.

Let those who call Yunus a lover
Be careful, do not imitate him,
Many will be lost because
Our destination is far away.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

You are my Soul

2010-07-10T13:10:00.002+08:00

"Even if it be after thousand years, these words will reach those for whom they're intended" - Rumi

Starting today this blog would start posting a series of poems by Yunus Emre, the turkish National poets. All these poems would carry the same theme, ie devine love, i found it really beautiful and simple. But the most important is the hidden message it carrying with each of the poems. The message is clearer for some while for others it might still find it hard.

There was an earlier posting of a poem by the same author. To take a look at them please click here

You are the soul of my soul, and
I have no peace without You,
If You are not in paradise, I swear
I will never even look up there.

Wherever I look my eyes see only You,
Whatever I say my words are only You,
My only desire is to be Your witness,
And yet I have no desire.

Traveling on my way to You,
I have forgotten myself already,
Whatever I say, whatever state I'm in,
Without You, I have no peace.

If You kill me and bring me back to life
Seventy times, like Cercis, just
Take me back to You again,
I have lost all my pride in Your love.

Yunus falls into Your love too,
So reveal Your face to him,
You are my only Beloved, my heart
Is in love with nothing but You.

Poem: By Yunus Emre

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Jangan remehkan amalan yg ikhlas!

2010-07-06T08:59:00.003+08:00

أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ قَرَصَتْ نَمْلَةٌ نَبِيًّا مِنْ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ فَأَمَرَ بِقَرْيَةِ النَّمْلِ فَأُحْرِقَتْ فَأَوْحَى اللَّهُ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ قَرَصَتْكَ نَمْلَةٌ أَحْرَقْتَ أُمَّةً مِنْ الْأُمَمِ تُسَبِّحُ

Dari Abu Hurairah r.a. katanya: Saya mendengar Rasulullah s.a.w. bersabda: “Seekor semut menyengat salah seorang Nabi. Nabi itupun menyuruh mencari sarang semut itu lalu dibakar. Allah lalu menurunkan wahyu kepada Nabi itu: “Sesungguhnya hanya seekor semut yang menyengat engkau dan engkau bakar salah satu umat yang bertasbih kepada Tuhan!” Riwayat Bukhari

Walaupun yang dianiaya itu hanyalah seekor semut yang kecil pada pandangan manusia tetapi ia tetap salah satu ciptaan tuhan yang Maha Agung, bukan sahaja semut akan tetapi semua makhluk tuhan lain juga begitu. Mereka yang mengerti akan hakikat penciptaan dengan sebenar-benarnya (sifat ini biasanya dimiliki oleh para kekasih Allah iaitu orang-orang yang arif), mereka akan lebih mengasihi dan menghargai semua ciptaan Allah berbanding dengan orang lain.

Disebutkan bahawa Allah mewahyukan kepada Nabi Musa as.: Tahukah Kamu mengapakah Aku mengangkat engkau sebagai Nabi yang terus mendengar kalamKu? Jawab Musa: Engkau yang lebih mengetahui. Bersabda Tuhan: Ketika Aku larikan semua kambing Nabi Syuaib yang kau pelihara itu, sehingga dengan susah payah engkau mengejar kambing-kambing itu untuk mengembalikannya, tetapi kemudian setelah kembali semuanya engkau tidak merasa jengkel marah, maka itulah sebabnya.

Dalam Hadith lain diceritakan, seorang pelacur yang memberi minum kepada anjing, tiba-tiba Allah bersyukur kepadanya dan mengampunkan semua dosanya. Demikianlah kehormatan dari kurnia-kurnia besar dari Allah itu, tidak dapat dicapai oleh manusia, dan selalu diberikan oleh Allah secara tiba-tiba, supaya tidak ada orang berbangga dengan amal perbuatannya.

Kasihani lah dirimu dan semua makhluk tuhan disekeliling mu, semuga Allah mengasihimu dan membuka bagimu jalan bagi mengetahui pelbagai rahsia penciptaan dan kehidupan. Tidak dibukakan oleh Allah melainkan kepada mereka yang sangat beruntung di dunia dan akhirat.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

The invitation

2010-06-29T01:47:00.001+08:00

The Invitation

(Oriah Mountian Dreamer)

It doesnt interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing.

It doesnt interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesnt interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by lifes betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us to
be careful
be realistic
remember the limitations of being human.

It doesnt interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
Yes.

It doesnt interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesnt interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesnt interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Life Quotes - Unfoldment of the heart

2010-06-27T10:54:00.001+08:00

By unfoldment of heart

"The facts can be put into words but not the truth, for God is truth, the soul is truth, the real self of man is truth."

"We generally confuse truth with fact, and we often use the word fact for truth. When we look at it from the mystic's point of view we find that words are too intricate ever to explain what is truth. ... Truth is that which cannot be pointed out, because all things that can be compared have their opposite, but neither God nor truth has an opposite. Names are to point out forms, and words are to distinguish one thing from another, while definitions come from the pairs of opposites or at least from differences. That which is all-pervading and is in all things and beings, that which every word explains and yet no word can explain, is God and is truth."

(...) "And truth can neither be studied nor taught nor learned; it is to be touched, it is to be realized; and it can be realized by the unfoldment of the heart."

Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Life Quotes - Opening of the heart

2010-06-25T09:53:00.003+08:00

If we could live our lifes bases on this principle we could become one of the happiest man on earths, life full of joys and freedom.

Stepping Into Freedom

"When we can acknowledge and accept our own shadows, our negative self-judgment lightens. When our negative self-judgment lightens, our negative judgment of others lightens simultaneously, and compassion for the pain of others arises."

Joan Hoeberichts

You Open Yourself

"When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You're able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias, and aggression. You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And, you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start to do things differently."

Pema Chödrön

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

He Said

2010-06-23T11:12:00.014+08:00

السعى لاكتشاف السر - من أنا؟

Today poem is by Rumi, notice what he said at the end of the poem where he claimed that the only way to benefit from this life is by keeping true to ourselves. We cannot be true to ourselves unless we know who we really are. This require us to know our true identity, and our true life purpose in this world. And yet when come to providing the answer to this questions, as usual Rumi can only give a vague idea about them...it is up to us to really search for the answer.

Those who seek will find them..وَالَّذِينَ جَاهَدُوا فِينَا لَنَهْدِيَنَّهُمْ سُبُلَنَا وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمَعَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ - And those who strive in Our (cause),- We will certainly guide them to our Paths: For verily Allah is with those who do right. (Al-Ankabut: 69).

If we cannot find the answer to it, it only meant we are not serious enough, not hard enough with our searching and pursuit for the answer. Only those wo really seek will find them. Those who found them will remain silent and say very little..except to those who is ready to hear the truth.

As narrated by Abu Huraira: I have memorized two kinds of knowledge from Allah's Apostle . I have propagated one of them to you and if I propagated the second, then my pharynx (throat) would be cut (i.e. killed). Source from here: Volume 1, Book 3, Number 121:

The second type of knowledge is the secret knowledge, knowledge of the path to know our trueself. A road that could only be traveled by the brave one with a fearless heart.

HE SAID

He said, "Who is at my door?"
I said, "Your humble servant."
He said, "What business do you have?"
I said, "To greet you, 0 Lord."
He said, "How long will you journey on?"
I said, "Until you stop me."
He said, "How long will you boil in the fire?"
I said, "Until I am pure.
"This is my oath of love.
For the sake of love
I gave up wealth and position."
He said, "You have pleaded your case
but you have no witness."
I said, "My tears are my witness;
the pallor of my face is my proof.'
He said, "Your witness has no credibility;
your eyes are too wet to see."
I said, "By the splendor of your justice
my eyes are clear and faultless."
He said, "What do you seek?"
I said, "To have you as my constant friend."
He said, "What do you want from me?"
I said, "Your abundant grace."
He said, "Who was your companion on the journey?
I said, "The thought of you, 0 King."
He said, "What called you here?"
I said, "The fragrance of your wine."
He said, "What brings you the most fulfillment? "
I said, "The company of the Emperor."
He said, "What do you find there?"
I said, "A hundred miracles."
He said, "Why is the palace deserted?"
I said, "They all fear the thief."
He said, "Who is the thief?"
I said, "The one who keeps me from -you.
He said, "Where is there safety?"
I said, "In service and renunciation. "
He said, "What is there to renounce?"
I said, "The hope of salvation."
He said, "Where is there calamity?"
I said, "In the presence of your love."
He said, "How do you benefit from this life?"
I said, "By keeping true to myself
Now it is time for silence.
If I told you about His true essence
You would fly from your self and be gone,
and neither door nor roof could hold you back!

Poem by: Maulana Jallaluddin Rumi
Source of picture is from here

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

اَلْطَرِيْقُ اِلَى الله - The way to God

2010-06-21T13:37:00.005+08:00

اَلْطَرِيْقُ اِلَى الله هُو كَثِيرُ - وَلَكِنْ أَقْصَرُ وَأَسْهَلُ هُوَ خِدَمَةُ الْآخِرِيْنَ ، وَلَا يَزْعُجُ الْآخِرِيْنَ ، وَجَعَلَ الآخِرِيْنَ سَعِدًاء

One day a man asked a sheikh how to reach God. “the Way to God” the sheikh replied, “are many as they are created beings. But the shortest and easiest is to serve others, not to bother others, and to make others happy.

If you wish to draw near to God, you must seek God in the hearts of others. You should speak well of all, whether present or absent. If you seek to be a light to guide others, then, like the sun, you must show the same face to all. To bring joy to a single heart is better than to build many shrines for worship, and to enslave one soul by kindness is worth more than the setting free of a thousand slaves. The true man of God sits in the midst of his fellowmen, and rises up and cats and sleeps and buys and sells and gives and takes in the bazaars, and marries and has social intercourse with others, and yet is never for one moment forgetful of God.

The above is from the saying of Abu Sa'id, a great sufi and poets, Shaikh Abu-Said was one of the earlier Sufi poets. He lived more than two centuries before Jelaluddin Rumi yet, like Rumi, much of his mysticism follows a similar path of annihilation in divine Love.

From my own small experience and knowledge there is a great truth in what has been said. Many others have said about the same things, for example Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishty said "A sin committed does not harm an individual so much as looking down upon one's own fellow human beings".

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

The question of destiny ?

2010-06-15T08:31:00.007+08:00

The question of destiny is a very complicated matter to understand ..

However, I like and adopted the view of Syaikh Ibnu Atho'illah, the author of a famous book "Kitabul-Hikam", on this subject, he said: الغافل اذا اصبح ينظر ماذا يفعل، والعاقل ينظر ماذا يفعل الله به

Those people who fail to fail to understand that the true meaning of tauhid which is that everything is running according to terms destine by God, in the morning is worring about what he should be doing that day whereas a person with sound understanding of tauhid would see only what Allah had destined for him that day.

ابن عجيبة said in his kitab إيقاظ الهمم شرح متن الحكم:
الغافل هو الجاهل بالله ولو كثر ذكره باللسان والعاقل هو العارف بالله ولو قل له ذكر اللسان

الغافل - are those who are do not know Allah even though they do a lot of zikrullah with their tongue whereas العاقل are those who know Allah even though they do less of zikrullah with their tongue..

وقول عمر بن عبد العزيز : أصبحت وما لي سرور إلا فى مواقع القدر
And the saying of Umar bin Abdul Aziz: In the morning i would rejoice with nothing except with what Allah had destined for me.

May God opened our hearts to the proper understanding of destiny.. It is most important key to peacefull living..

(p/s : I am testing my new found skill - typing with arabic keyboard and at the same time enhancing my knowledge of arabic..)

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Saved by a Poem

2010-06-14T14:14:00.003+08:00

Kim Rosen, author of "Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words" speaks about loving -- and fearing -- poetry and how poems can be a powerful medicine to heal and transform individuals and our world.

Many of the great Sufi mystics in the past such as Rumi, Attar, Hafiz, Yunus Amre, Saadi, Mahmud Shabistari,Ibn Arabi, Omar Khayyam and many others have been able to encapsulate and share their spiritual experiences through them. Many of the most truly important sufi message and secret are reveal through them. Reading these sufi poems can uplift our own consciouness.

However some of this "life secret" could only be understood with the help of the wise and enlightened being.

Many of these poems could be found on the internet. One of such site is The Poets Seeres.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Kindness

2010-06-03T01:09:00.001+08:00

----Kindess-----
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.
Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.
Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you every where
like a shadow or a friend.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Presence

2010-06-01T18:12:00.001+08:00

--- PRESENCE ----
This we have now
is not imagination

This is not
grief or joy.

Not a judging state,
or an elation,
or sadness.

Those come
and go.

This is the presence
that doesn't.

It's dawn, Husam,
here in the splendor of coral,
inside the Friend, the simple truth
of what Hallaj said.

What else could human beings want?

When grapes turn to wine,
they're wanting
this.

When the nightsky pours by,
it's really a crowd of beggars,
and they all want some of this!

This
that we are now
created the body, cell by cell,
like bees building a honeycomb.

The human body and the universe
grew from this, not this
from the universe and the human body.

--Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Listening

2010-05-30T00:04:00.000+08:00

---LISTENING ----
What is the deep listening? Sama is
a greeeting from the secret ones inside

the heart, a letter. The branches of
your intelligence grow new leaves in

the wind of this listening. The body
reaches a peace. Rooster sound comes,

reminding you of your love for dawn.
The reed flute and the singer's lips:

the knack of how spirit breathes into
us becomes as simple and ordinary as

eating and drinking. The dead rise with
the pleasure of listening. If someone

can't hear a trumpet melody, sprinkle
dirt on his head and declare him dead.

Listen, and feel the beauty of your
separation, the unsayable absence.

There's a moon inside every human being.
Learn to be companions with it. Give

more of your life to this listening. As
brightness is to time, so you are to

the one who talks to the deep ear in
your chest. I should sell my tongue

and buy a thousand ears when that
one steps near and begins to speak.

— Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting
translated by Coleman Barks
Viking Penguin, NY (1999)

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

You give but little - Khalil Gibran

2010-05-28T19:03:00.000+08:00

"You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow?

And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the overprudent dog burying bones in the trackless sand as he follows the pilgrims to the holy city?
And what is fear of need but need itself?
Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

There are those who give little of the much which they have--and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.
And there are those who have little and give it all.
These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.
And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue;

They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.
Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth.

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding;

And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

And is there aught you would withhold?
All you have shall some day be given;

Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors'.

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving."
The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights, is worthy of all else from you.

And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.

And what desert greater shall there be, than that which lies in the courage and the confidence, nay the charity, of receiving?
And who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?
See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

For in truth it is life that gives unto life while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

And you receivers... and you are all receivers... assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives.
Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings;
For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the freehearted earth for mother, and God for father."

( "On Giving": Kahlil Gibran )

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

James Allen Quotes - As A Man Thinketh

2010-05-26T00:42:00.003+08:00

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Nothing Lasts Forever

2010-05-24T00:39:00.004+08:00

----Nothing lasts forever -----
No one lives forever.
Keep that in mind,
And love,

Our life is not the same old burden,
Our path is not the same long journey,
The flower fades and dies,
We must pause to weave,
Perfection in music,
Keep that in mind,
And love.

My beloved,
In you I find refuge.
Love droops towards sunset,
To be drowned in golden shadows,
Love must be called from its play,
And love must be born again to be free,
Keep that in mind,
And love.

My beloved,
In you I find refuge,
Without seeing my love,
I cannot sleep.
Lets us hurry to gather our flowers,
Before they are plundered by the passing winds,
It quickens our blood,
And brightens our eyes,
To snatch kisses that would vanish,
If we delayed.
Our life is eager,
Our desires are keen
For time rolls by,
Keep that in mind,
And love.

My beloved,
In you I find refuge.
Beauty is sweet for a short time,
And then it is gone,
Knowledge is precious,

But we will never have time to complete it,
All is done and finished,
In eternal heaven,
But our life here is eternally fresh,
Keep that in mind,
And love.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Gift of Love (10 of 10)

2010-05-22T00:38:00.000+08:00

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Gift of Love (9 of 10)

2010-05-20T00:12:00.003+08:00

---The Mirror -------
(Read by : Debra Winger)
We are the mirror as well as the face in it.
We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.
We are pain and what cures pain both.
We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.
I want to hold you close like a lute so we can cry out with loving.
You would rather throw stones at a mirror?
I am your mirror, and here are the stones.

---- Look at Your Eyes ----
(Read by: Noah Hutton/Debra Winger)
I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?
Look at your eyes, they are small but they
see enormous things.

---- Looking for Love ------
(Read by : Rosa Parks)
God is within
My heart is in harmony with my head
my spirit soars as a bird in search of new sky,
The innocence of my life releases the God I love everywhere.

---- Some Kiss ------
(Read by : Coleman Barks)
There is some kiss we want
with our whole lives,
the touch of spirit on the body.
Seawater begs the pearl
to break its shell.
And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling!
At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won’t use the door,
only the window

----The Freshness----
(Read by : Coleman Barks)
When it's cold and raining,
you are more beautiful.

And the snow brings me
even closer to your lips.

The inner secret, that which was never born,
you are that freshness, and I am with you now.

I can't explain the goings,
or the comings. You enter suddenly,
and I am nowhere again.
Inside the majesty.

----- My Beloved -----
(Read by : Chris Barron)
Know that my beloved is hidden from everyone
Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs
Know that in my heart she is as clear as the MOON
Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul

---- The Hunt -------
(Read by : Deepak Chopra)
The Lover comes, the Lover comes!
Open the way for him!
He’s looking for a heart,
Let’s show him one.
I scream
“What you come to hunt is me!”
He says laughingly,
“I’m here not to hunt you but to save you.”

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Gift of Love (8 of 10)

2010-05-18T00:15:00.002+08:00

-----The Agony and Ecstasy of Divine Discontent-----
(Read by : Sonja Sohn)
In the orchard and rose garden
I long to see your face.
In the taste of Sweetness
I long to kiss your lips.
In the shadows of passion
I long for your love.

Oh! Supreme Lover!
Let me leave aside my worries.
The flowers are blooming
with the exultation of your Spirit.

By Allah!
I long to escape the prison of my ego
And lose myself
In the mountains and the desert.

These sad and lonely people tire me.
I long to revel in the drunken frenzy of your love
And feel the strength of Rustam in my hands.

I’m sick of mortal kings.
I long to see your light.
With lamps in hand
The sheikhs and mullahs roam
The dark alleys of these towns
Not finding what they seek.

You are the Essence of the Essence,
The intoxication of Love.
I long to sing your praises
But stand mute
With the agony of wishing in my heart.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Gift of Love (7 of 10)

2010-05-16T00:35:00.003+08:00

----The Mythical Lover -----
(Read by : Gautama Chopra)
My love for you has driven me insane
I wander aimlessly the ruins of my life , my old self a stranger to me
Because of your love I have broken with my past
My longing for you keeps me in this moment , My Passion gives me courage
I look for you in my innermost being
I used to read
the myths of love
Now I have become
a mythical lover

--- I am and I am Not ----
(Read by : Deepak Chopra)
I'm drenched
in the flood
which has yet to come

I'm tied up
in the prison
which has yet to exist...

Not having played
the game of chess
I'm already the checkmate

Not having tasted
a single cup of your wine
I'm already drunk

Not having entered
the battlefield
I'm already wounded and slain

I no longer
know the difference
between image and reality

Like the shadow
I am
And
I am not

---The Agony of Lovers----
(Read by : Laura Day)
The agony of lovers
burns with the fire of passion.
Lovers leave traces of where they've been.
The wailing of broken hearts
is the doorway to God."

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Gift of Love (6 of 10)

2010-05-14T00:02:00.003+08:00

--- Surrender ------
(Read by : Deepak Chopra)
In love...nothing is eternal, but drinking your wine.
There is no reason for bringing my life to you,
other than losing it. I said, I just want to know you,
and then disappear. She said, knowing me does not mean dying.

----Defeated by Love-----
(Read by : Sussan Deyhim)
The sky was lit by the splendor of the moon,
so powerful I fell to the ground.
Your love has made me sure
I am ready to forsake this worldly life
and surrender to the magnificence of your being.

--- Lost in the Wilderness ---
(Read by : Deepak Chopra)
Oh lovers, where are you going? Who are you looking for?
Your beloved is right here. She lives in your own neighbourhood.
Her face is veiled. She hides behind screens calling for you,
while you search and lose yourself in the wilderness and the desert.
Cease looking for flowers, there blooms a garden in your own home.
While you go looking for trinkets, your treasure house awaits you in your own being. There is no need for suffering, God is here!

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Gift of Love (5 of 10)

2010-05-12T00:01:00.004+08:00

---Dying to Love ----
(Read by : Robert A.F. Thurman)
Die! Die!
Die in this love!
If you die in this love
your soul will be renewed.

Die! Die!
Don't fear the death
of that which is known
If you die to the temporal
you will become timeless

Die! Die!
Cut off those Chains
that hold you prisoner
to the world of attachment

Die! Die!
Die to the deathless
and you will be eternal

Die! Die!
and come out of this cloud
When you leave the cloud
you will be the effulgent moon

Die! Die!
Die to the din and the nouise
of mundane concerns
In the silence of love
you will find the spark of life

--- The privileged lovers--------
(Read by : Deepak Chopra)
The moon has become a dancer at this festival of love. This dance of light, this sacred blessing, this divine love beckons us to a world beyond, that only lovers can see with their eyes of fiery passion. They are the chosen ones who have surrendered. Once they were particles of light, now they are the radiant sun. They have left behind the world of deceat-full games. They are the privileged lovers who created new worlds with their eyes of fiery passion.

--- Precious Love ----
(Read by : Deepak Chopra)
Oh God!
I have discovered love!
How marvelous!
How good!
How beautiful it is!

My Body is warm
from the heat of this love
How secret!
How deep
How obvious it is!

I offer my salutations
to the stars and the moon
to all my brothers and all my sisters
I offer my salutations
to the spirit of passion
that aroused and excited this universe
and all it contains

I have fallen
unable to rise
What kind of trap is this?
What chains have tied my hands and feet?

It is so strange
and so wonderful
this loving helplessness of mine

Be silent
do not reveal the secret
of my precious love

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Gift of Love (4 of 10)

2010-05-09T00:31:00.004+08:00

--- I am yours -----
(Read By: Robert John Burke)
Because the idol is your face, I have become an idolater,
Because the wine is from your cup, I have become a drunkard.
In the existence of your love, I have become non existent.
This non existence linked to you is better than all existence.

--- Behine the Scenes ----
(Read by: Blythe Danner)
Is it your face that adorns this garden?
Is it your fragrance that intoxicates this garden?
Is it your Spirit that has made this brook a river of wine?
Hundreds have looked for you, and died searching in this garden,
where you hide behind the scenes.
But this pain is not for those who come as lovers.
You are easy to find here.
You are in the breeze and in this river of wine.

--- Looking for Your Face ---
(Read by: Jared Harris)
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it

Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for

Today I have found you
and those who laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I did

I am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you
with a hundred eyes

My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now behold

I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine

Your fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow

My soul is screaming in ecstacy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with you

Your effulgence
has lit a fire in my heart
and you have made radiant for me
the earth and sky

My arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer

----The Meaning of Love ------
(Read By: Goldie Hawn)
Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.
Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets.
Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless.

Although I may try to describe love,
when I experience it, I am speechless.
Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless.
My pen breaks, and the paper slips away
at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one.
Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.

--- Aroused Passion---
(Read By: Deepak Chopra)
Oh God
Let all lovers be contents
Give them happy endings
Let their lives be celebrations
Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love

My sweetheart
you have aroused my passion
Your touch has filled me with desire
I am no longer separate from you

These are precious moments
I beseech you
Don't let me wait
Let me merge with you

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Gift of Love (3 of 10)

2010-05-07T00:19:00.002+08:00

Jelaluddin Rumi, the 13th century mystic poet, was truly one of the most passionate and profound poets in history. Now, today his presence still remains strong, due in part to how his words seem to drip of the divine, and startle a profound rememberance that links all back to the Soul-Essence. Born in what is present day Afghanistan in 1207, he produced his master work the Masnawi which consists of over 60,000 poems before he died in 1273.

--- The Alchemy of Love -----
(Read By: Deepak Chopra)
You come to us
from another world

From beyond the stars
and void of space.
Transcendent, Pure,
Of unimaginable beauty,
Bringing with you
the essence of love.

You transform all
who are touched by you.
Mundane concerns,
troubles, and sorrows
dissolve in your presence,
Bringing joy
to ruler and ruled
To peasant and King.

You bewilder us
with your grace.
All evils
transform into
goodness.

You are the master alchemist.

You light the fire of love
in earth and sky
in heart and soul
of every being.

Through your loving
existence and nonexistence merge.
All opposites unite.
All that is profane
becomes sacred again.

-------Caught in the Fire of Love ----
(Read By: Martin Sheen)

My heart is on fire
In my madness I roam the desert
The flames of my passion
devour the wind and the sky
My cries of longing,
my waves of sorrow are tormenting my soul
You wait patiently
looking into my intoxicated eyes
You accept my passion
with the serenity of Love
You are the master of existence
One day I shall be a Lover, like You

---- THE AWAKENING --------
(Read By: Deepak Chopra)

In the early dawn of happiness
you gave me three kisses
so that I would wake up
to this moment of love

I tried to remember in my heart
what I'd dreamt about
during the night
before I became aware
of this moving
of life

I found my dreams
but the moon took me away
It lifted me up to the firmament
and suspended me there
I saw how my heart had fallen
on your path
singing a song

Between my love and my heart
things were happening which
slowly slowly
made me recall everything

You arouse me with your touch
although I can't see your hands.
You have kissed me with tenderness
although I haven't seen your lips
You are hidden from me.

But it is you who keeps me alive

Perhaps the time will come
when you will tire of kisses
I shall be happy
even for insults from you
I only ask that you
keep some attention on me.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Gift of Love (2 of 10)

2010-05-05T00:15:00.003+08:00

--- The Lover's Passion ----
(Read By: Deepak Chopra)
A lover knows only humility, he has no choice.
He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice.
He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don’t fret, he has no choice.
In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice

---Do you love me----
(Read By: Demi Moore)
A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more
than you love me?
The beloved replied,
I have died to myself
and I live for you.

I've disappeared from myself
and my attributes.
I am present only for you.

I have forgotten all my learnings,
but from knowing you
I have become a scholar.

I have lost all my strength,
but from your power
I am able.

If I love myself
I love you.
If I love you
I love myself.

---- Come to me --------
(Read By: Deepak Chopra)
I am your lover, come to my side,
I will open the gate to your love.
Come settle with me, let us be neighbours to the stars.
You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love.
Even so, you have always been connected to me.
Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest.
I am life itself.

You have been a prisoner of a little pond,
I am the ocean and its turbulent flood.
Come merge with me,
leave this world of ignorance.
Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.

---Desire-----
(Read By: Deepak Chopra)
I desire you more than food or drink
My body my senses my mind hunger for your taste
I can sense your presence in my heart
although you belong to all the world
I wait with silent passïon for one gesture one glance
from you."

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Gift of Love (1 of 10)

2010-05-03T20:31:00.002+08:00

"The innocence of my life releases the God I love everywhere." These are the words of Rumi, 13th-century poet and founder of the Whirling Dervishes of Sufism, as spoken by the mature and melodious voice of Rosa Parks. Her voice, American history, those words, intense longing: Power. In celebration of the human spirit, The Gift of Love is a recitation of the love poems of Rumi by Dr. Chopra and celebrity friends, including Madonna, Goldie Hawn, and Robert A.F. Thurman. Sensual Middle Eastern-influenced music backs the reading and provides breaks between sections such as "Love Drunk" and "The Light of Love." The Gift of Love is sincere and potent stuff, unafraid of the deep physical, spiritual, and mental hunger that Rumi's words not only taste, but roll about the tongue and swallow whole. --Paige La Grone

--- My Burning Heart ----
My heart is burning with love
All can see this flame
My heart is pulsing with passion
like waves on an ocean.

My friends have become strangers
and I’m surrounded by enemies.
But I’m free as the wind
no longer hurt by those who reproach me.

I’m at home wherever I am
And in the room of lovers
I can see with closed eyes
the beauty that dances.

Behind the veils
intoxicated with love
I too dance the rhythm
of this moving world.
I have lost my senses
in my world of lovers...

--- Bittersweet-----
In my hallucination
I saw my beloved's flower garden
In my vertigo, in my dizziness
In my drunken haze
Whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel
I saw myself as the source of existence

I was there in the beginning
And I was the spirit of love
Now I am sober
There is only the hangover
And the memory of love
And only the sorrow

I yearn for happiness
I ask for help
I want mercy
And my love says:

Look at me and hear me
Because I am here
Just for that

I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl

I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you

Oh sweet bitterness
I will soothe you and heal you
I will bring you roses
I, too, have been covered with thorns

---Intoxicated by Love----
Because of your love
I have lost my sobriety
I am intoxicated
by the madness of love

In this fog
I have become a stranger to myself
I'm so drunk
I've lost the way to my house

In the garden
I see only your face
From trees and blossoms
I inhale only your fragrance

Drunk with the ecstasy of love
I can no longer tell the difference
between drunkard and drink
Between Lover and Beloved

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Here I am

2010-05-01T00:26:00.006+08:00

"The original words of Rumi are so deep, so perfect, so touching, that when one man repeats them hundreds and thousands of people are moved to tears. They cannot help penetrating the heart. This shows how much Rumi himself was moved to have been able to pour out such living words. - Hazrat Inayat Khan

Here is another example of Rumi masterpiece entitled "Here I am"

--------- Here I am -------------

All night, a man called “Allah”
Until his lips were bleeding.
Then the Devil said, “Hey! Mr Gullible!
How comes you’ve been calling all night
And never once heard Allah say, “Here, I am”?
You call out so earnestly and, in reply, what?
I’ll tell you what. Nothing!”

The man suddenly felt empty and abandoned.
Depressed, he threw himself on the ground
And fell into a deep sleep.
In a dream, he met Abraham, who asked,
“Why are you regretting praising Allah?”

The man said, “ I called and called
But Allah never replied, “Here I am.”
Abraham explained, “Allah has said,
“Your calling my name is My reply.
Your longing for Me is My message to you.
All your attempts to reach Me
Are in reality My attempts to reach you.
Your fear and love are a noose to catch Me.
In the silence surrounding every call of “Allah”
Waits a thousand replies of “Here I am.”

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

I've Come To Take You With Me

2010-04-30T18:43:00.000+08:00

"I've Come To Take You With Me
Even if i must drag you along
but first must steal your heart
then settle you in my soul.

I've come as a spring
to lay beside your blossoms
to feel the glory of happiness
and spread your flowers around.

I've come to show you off
as the adornment in my house
and elevate you to the heavens
as the prayers of those in love.

I've come to take back
the kiss you once stole
either return it with grace
or i must take it by force.

You're my life
you're my soul
please be my last prayer
my heart must hold you forever.

From the lowly earth
to the high human soul
there are a lot more
than a thousand stages.

Since i've taken you along
from town to town
no way will i abandon
you halfway down this road.

Though you're in my hands
though I can throw you around
like a child and a ball
i'll always need to chase after you..."

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

The way to the Beloved

2010-04-30T09:09:00.011+08:00

/ Photo by A-Daly /

Abu Said Khair once said:

"The shortest way to the Beloved is through selfless service and generosity to all of the Beloved's creatures."

"If you are seeking closeness to the Beloved, love everyone. whether in their presence or absence, see only their good. if you want to be as clear and refreshing as the breath of the morning breeze, like the sun have nothing but warmth and light for everyone."

In a similar notes Sa'di Shirazi had said

"Higher spiritual life is nothing but service of humanity, It is not the rosary, or prayer carpet, or woolen robes."

Shaikh Abu Said Khair (967 - 1049) was one of the earlier Sufi poets who lived more than two centuries before Jelaluddin Rumi. He lived in Mayhana in what is modern day Turkmenistan, just north of Iran and Afghanistan in Central Asia.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Though you are wise

2010-04-29T12:03:00.002+08:00

Today peom is by Lalla, a great saint and mystic from the Kashmir province of India. She lived in the 14th Century. Her poems, formed an important part of Kashmiri language and culture and are still very much revered today.

--- Though you are wise ----

Though you are wise, be as a fool;
Though you can see, be as one blind;
Though you can hear, be as one deaf;
Patiently bear with all you meet,
and politely talk to eveyone.
This practice surely will lead you
to the realisation of the Truth.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Yang lebih baik dari anak dara!

2010-04-22T18:43:00.003+08:00

Apabila Tuhan membukakan bagimu suatu jalan untuk bermakrifat (mengenal padaNya), maka jangan menghiraukan soal amalmu yang masih sedikit, sebab Tuhan tidak membukakan bagimu, melainkan Ia akan memperkenalkan diriNya kepadamu. Tidakkah kau ketahui bahawa makrifat itu semata-mata pemberian kurnia Allah kepadamu, sedang amal perbuatanmu hadiah daripadamu, maka di manakah letak perbandingannya antara hadiahmu dengan pemberian kurnia Allah kepadamu – Mutiara kata Shaikh Ibu Atho’illah dari kitab Al-Hikam.

Makrifat (mengenal) kepada Allah dengan sebenar pengenalan adalah kemuncak keuntungan seorang hamba (tidak dapat dibandingkan dengan ganjaran atau kedudukan lain didunia ini walau apa pun jua. Maka apabila Tuhan telah membukakan bagimu suatu jalan untuk berserta keinginan yang kuat untuk mengenal kepadaNya, maka bersyukur dan bergembiralah. Dan tidak usah kau hiraukan berapa banyak amal perbuatanmu meskipun masih sangat sedikit amal kebaikanmu dan masih terasa jauh perjalananmu. Sebab makrifat itu suatu kurnia pemberian langsung dari Allah, maka ia sekali-kali tidak tergantung kepada banyak atau sedikitnya amal kebaikan.

Rasulullah s.a.w bersabda dari riwayat Abu Hurairah ra. Allah berfirman: Apabila Aku menguji hambaKu yang beriman, kemudian ia tidak mengeluh kepada pengunjung pengunjungnya, maka Aku lepaskan ia dari ikatanKu dan Aku gantikan baginya daging dan darah yang lebih baik dari yang asal, dan ia boleh memperbaharui amal, sebab yang lalu telah diampuni semua.

Diriwayatkan lagi: Allah telah menurunkan wahyu kepada salah seorang Nabi s.a.w. Aku telah menurunkan bala (berupa ujian) kepada seorang hamba maka ia berdoa, dan tetap Aku tunda permintaannya, akhirnya ia mengeluh, maka Aku berkata kepadanya: Hambaku, bagaimana Aku akan melepaskan daripadamu rahmat yang justru bala itu mengandungi rahmatKu.

Kerana dengan segala kelakuan kebaikanmu engkau tidak dapat sampai ke tingkat yang akan Aku berikan padamu, maka dengan bala itulah engkau dapat mencapai tingkat dan kedudukan di sisi Allah.

Suburkan lah keinginan dirimu untuk bermakrifat (mengenal) Allah kerana disitulah letaknya keuntungan hakiki. Kelazatan ibadat orang yang makrifat kepada Allah disebut di dalam kitab-kitab sufi sebagai sebuah pengalaman ibadat yang tiada bandingannya. Kalau hendak dibandingkan juga ia terlebih lazat dari ketika bersatu dengan anak dara yang baru dikahwini. Sebab tu mereka ini dapat duduk berjam-jam (hatta berhari-hari dan setengahnya berbulan-bulan hatta bertahun-tahun) berzikir dan bermunazat tanpa rasa penat, mengantok dan letih..Mungkin sukar untuk digambarkan.

Adaptasi dari Terjemahan Al-Hikam oleh H.Salim Bahreisy

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Love of the Prophet!

2010-04-16T16:15:00.006+08:00

The first time I read a book on the life of the prophet was in 1984. The title of the book was "MUHAMMAD, THE BENEFACTOR OF HUMANITY" by Nayeem Siddiqi. It is considered one of the best book on the life of the prophet pbuh. There were so many exemplary stories told in the book about the life of the prophet and his sahabah but there was one story that really moved my heart. After 26 years i could still remember it very well. It is about the love of the prophet pbuh by the Ansar. The story goes like this.

When Prophet Muhammad pbuh entered Mecca a large quantity of booty- 24,000 camels, 400,000 goats 4,000 measures of silver – was collected at Ja’arana and as usual one-fifth of it was taken by the prophet pbuh for collective use and for relieving poverty the rest was distributed.

The Quraish was given a larger shared which angered some of the Ansars at the prophet's generosity at the cost of those who had staked their lives to support him and fought his battles.

Some Ansars were saying “We are called for help in adversity but the fruit of victory goes to others.”

When the Prophet heard this he called together the Ansars and asked them if the rumours were true. The Ansar confessed that there was such talk but only among irresponsible youths.

Then the Prophet said:“Is it not true that you were in the wrong and God gave you right guidance through me? That you were divided and God united you through me? That you were poor and God made you prosperous through me?’ At every sentence the Ansar cried, “Truly, we are greatly indebted to God and His Prophet.”

The Prophet again said, “No, you should say, O Muhammad! When people denied you we believed in you. When you were abandoned by the Quraish we sheltered you. When you came to us in poverty we gave you every help. And at every sentence I will say, ‘Yes, it is true.’ But O Ansar! Do you not like that while others take with them camels and goats, you take Muhammad with you.” This statement by the prophet moved the Ansar so much that torrents of tears began to wet their beards and they emotionally cried out, “We want only Muhammad and nothing else.” When the Prophet quietly explained to them the reasons which necessitated sympathetic treatment of the Quraish they really understood it.

They realized it, that there is nothing in this world equal to the love of the prophet. The Ansar know it very much in their heart. The worldy richness, even when the whole world turn into gold and presented to them it still cannot match their love for him. That is why they cried out “We want only Muhammad and nothing else.”

The prophet one day was reported cried out yearning for his ummah when he was sitting with his companions who asked him about the reason, he said" I yearn for my brothers "They said "Are not we your brothers?" He said :"No,you are my friends, my brothers are those who embrace Islam without seeing me "

Now even though prophet Muhammad is no longer with us, we can still shows our affection and love toward him by saying much salawat to him...

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Give me your big Smile !

2010-04-09T09:39:00.001+08:00

Today I stumble upon an awesome video on the internet with an amazing soundtrack that will put a smile on your face today. It’s the story of a parking attendant who makes people smile. And becomes famous for it.

Until… he walks into the DMV and falls for a women who doesn’t believe in smiling.

It is really funny, inspiring and will leave you beaming. I am sharing this with you all. You should watch it now! (Todate more then 3.3 million people around the globe have already watched this on YouTube)

Share this video with your loves one.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

How could I ever thank my Friend?

2010-04-02T11:00:00.000+08:00

This is another good poem by Saadi (1207? - 1291) entitled "How could I ever thank my Friend?". His real name was Sheikh Muslihu'd-Din, was a descended from Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed. Saadi is probably the first Persian poet to have been translated into European languages. A German version of the Gulistan appeared in 1654. There is a real good deals of sufi message was told by Saadi in this poem in a very nice and subtle ways.

How could I ever thank my Friend?
No thanks could ever begin to be worthy.
Every hair of my body is a gift from Him;
How could I thank Him for each hair?
Praise that lavish Lord forever
Who from nothing conjures all living beings!
Who could ever describe His goodness?
His infinite glory lays all praise waste.
Look, He has graced you a robe of splendor
From childhood's first cries to old age!
He made you pure in His own image; stay pure.
It is horrible to die blackened by sin.
Never let dust settle on your mirror's shining;
Let it once grow dull and it will never polish.
When you work in the world to earn your living
Do not, for one moment, rely on your own strength.
Self-worshiper, don't you understand anything yet?
It is God alone that gives your arms their power.
If, by your striving, you achieve something good,
Don't claim the credit all for yourself;
It is fate that decides who wins and who loses
And all success streams only from the grace of God.
In this world you never stand by your own strength;
It is the Invisible that sustains you every moment.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

One Who Is Real Is Humble

2010-03-29T16:37:00.007+08:00

There is only one virtue and
one sin for a soul on this path;
virtue when he is conscious of God,
and sin when he is not
- Muhammad Abu Hashim Madani

I have learned a great deal of understanding from reading the poem by the great Sufis of the past like Jalaluddin Rumi, Yunus Emre, Mahmud Shabistari and Saadi. The poems are are so valuable as an alternative source of knowledge and I greatly adored them. The poem below is by Yunus Emre (1238-1320), one of my favourite poets. He was a contemporary of Rumi, who lived in the same region, Anatolia.

To be real on this path you must be humble--
If you look down at others you'll get pushed down the stairs.

If your heart goes around on high, you fly far from this path.
There's no use hiding it--
What's inside always leaks outside.

Even the one with the long white beard, the one who looks so wise--
If he breaks a single heart, why bother going to Mecca?
If he has no compassion, what's the point?

My heart is the throne of the Beloved,
the Beloved the heart's destiny:
Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming
in this world or any other.

The ones who know say very little
while the beasts are always speaking volumes;
One word is enough for one who knows.

If there is any meaning in the holy books, it is this:
Whatever is good for you, grant it to others too--

Whoever comes to this earth migrates back;
Whoever drinks the wine of love
understands what I say--

Yunus, don't look down at the world in scorn--

Keep your eyes fixed on your Beloved's face,
then you will not see the bridge
on Judgment Day.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Don't complain the Beloved is listening

2010-03-26T10:44:00.004+08:00

"Don't complain the beloved is listening", that is the title for one of the sufis poem by the great Jalaluddin al Rumi. Unfortunately i could only lay my hand on the translated title without the poem's body. I have tried in vain to search for the translated version but unable to find any. Nevertheless the title alone is enough for us to understand the intended message of the peom, i guessed.

As servant of Allah it is a great sins for us to complain about our life, for when we complains we are implying that Allah don't know what best for us and at the same time we are saying Allah being unjust (zalim) to us. So long that we keep complaining about our lifes, complaining about others mistreating us, complaining about our misfortune and ill fate we remain in the disgrace of not knowing our true self.

Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishty (R.A.) once said "A person who has firm faith and believes in Allah doesn’t complain of others behaviour"

Next time before we complain we should remember that.....

If you think you are unhappy, look at them

If you think your salary is low, how about her?

If you think you don’t have many friends...

If you think you suffer in life, do you suffer as much as he does?

If you complain about your transport system, how about them?

The above was, (as i was told) from an email that was voted as the best email of the Year...I could understand why...because it touch everybody's heart. Does it touch yours?

Here is another opportunity for us to feel blessed, for Allah has created us with complete arms and legs..not like Nick Vujicic.

Say Subhanallah and Alhamdulillah.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

A description of Sufi

2010-03-17T12:19:00.001+08:00

Foto is taken from here

The following is a beautiful description of the Sufi ideal by a sufi commentator Qushayri:

Sufism is entry into exemplary behavior and departure from unworthy behavior.
Sufism means that God makes you die to yourself and makes you live in him.
The Sufi is single in essence; nothing changes him, nor does he change anything.
The sign of the sincere Sufi is that he feels poor when he has wealth, is humble when he has power, and is hidden when he has fame.
Sufism means that you own nothing and are owned by nothing.
Sufism means entrusting the soul to God most high for whatever he wishes.
Sufism means seizing spiritual realities and giving up on what creatures possess.
Sufism means kneeling at the door of the Beloved, even if he turns you away.
Sufism is a state in which the conditions of humanity disappear.
Sufism is a blazing lightning bolt.

Quoted in Sufism: An essential introduction to the philosophy and practice of the mystical tradition of Islam, by Carl W. Ernst, PhD

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

The Universe as a Hologram

2010-03-12T12:32:00.007+08:00

The article below is by By Michael Talbot (1953-1992) , a writter of a book called "The Holographic Universe" (May 6, 1992). Although I have not read the book myself but after reading the article and making some research on the topics i found it very interesting and mind blowing. I hope you would like it also as it help us understand what others view on the subject matter ï am interested in "Who Am I?" - Rbain

Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm?

In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science.

Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart. Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein's long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain away Aspect's findings. But it has inspired others to offer even more radical explanations.

University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.

To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. A hologram is a three- dimensional photograph made with the aid of a laser. To make a hologram, the object to be photographed is first bathed in the light of a laser beam. Then a second laser beam is bounced off the reflected light of the first and the resulting interference pattern (the area where the two laser beams commingle) is captured on film. When the film is developed, it looks like a meaningless swirl of light and dark lines. But as soon as the developed film is illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original object appears.

The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable characteristic of holograms. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half and then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire image of the rose. Indeed, even if the halves are divided again, each snippet of film will always be found to contain a smaller but intact version of the original image. Unlike normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the information possessed by the whole.

The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order. For most of its history, Western science has labored under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its respective parts. A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to take apart something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller wholes.

This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.

To enable people to better visualize what he means, Bohm offers the following illustration. Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine also that you are unable to see the aquarium directly and your knowledge about it and what it contains comes from two television cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the other directed at its side. As you stare at the two television monitors, you might assume that the fish on each of the screens are separate entities. After all, because the cameras are set at different angles, each of the images will be slightly different. But as you continue to watch the two fish, you will eventually become aware that there is a certain relationship between them. When one turns, the other also makes a slightly different but corresponding turn; when one faces the front, the other always faces toward the side. If you remain unaware of the full scope of the situation, you might even conclude that the fish must be instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is clearly not the case.

This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on between the subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment. According to Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality. Such particles are not separate "parts", but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that is ultimately as holographic and indivisible as the previously mentioned rose. And since everything in physical reality is comprised of these "eidolons", the universe is itself a projection, a hologram.

In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a universe would possess other rather startling features. If the apparent separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected.The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shimmers in the sky. Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide, the various phenomena of the universe, all apportionments are of necessity artificial and all of nature is ultimately a seamless web.

In a holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be viewed as fundamentals. Because concepts such as location break down in a universe in which nothing is truly separate from anything else, time and three-dimensional space, like the images of the fish on the TV monitors, would also have to be viewed as projections of this deeper order. At its deeper level reality is a sort of superhologram in which the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously. This suggests that given the proper tools it might even be possible to someday reach into the superholographic level of reality and pluck out scenes from the long-forgotten past.

What else the superhologram contains is an open-ended question. Allowing, for the sake of argument, that the superhologram is the matrix that has given birth to everything in our universe, at the very least it contains every subatomic particle that has been or will be -- every configuration of matter and energy that is possible, from snowflakes to quasars, from blue whales to gamma rays. It must be seen as a sort of cosmic storehouse of "All That Is."

Although Bohm concedes that we have no way of knowing what else might lie hidden in the superhologram, he does venture to say that we have no reason to assume it does not contain more. Or as he puts it, perhaps the superholographic level of reality is a "mere stage" beyond which lies "an infinity of further development".

Bohm is not the only researcher who has found evidence that the universe is a hologram. Working independently in the field of brain research, Standford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram has also become persuaded of the holographic nature of reality. Pribram was drawn to the holographic model by the puzzle of how and where memories are stored in the brain. For decades numerous studies have shown that rather than being confined to a specific location, memories are dispersed throughout the brain.

In a series of landmark experiments in the 1920s, brain scientist Karl Lashley found that no matter what portion of a rat's brain he removed he was unable to eradicate its memory of how to perform complex tasks it had learned prior to surgery. The only problem was that no one was able to come up with a mechanism that might explain this curious "whole in every part" nature of memory storage.

Then in the 1960s Pribram encountered the concept of holography and realized he had found the explanation brain scientists had been looking for. Pribram believes memories are encoded not in neurons, or small groupings of neurons, but in patterns of nerve impulses that crisscross the entire brain in the same way that patterns of laser light interference crisscross the entire area of a piece of film containing a holographic image. In other words, Pribram believes the brain is itself a hologram.

Pribram's theory also explains how the human brain can store so many memories in so little space. It has been estimated that the human brain has the capacity to memorize something on the order of 10 billion bits of information during the average human lifetime (or roughly the same amount of information contained in five sets of the Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Similarly, it has been discovered that in addition to their other capabilities, holograms possess an astounding capacity for information storage--simply by changing the angle at which the two lasers strike a piece of photographic film, it is possible to record many different images on the same surface. It has been demonstrated that one cubic centimeter of film can hold as many as 10 billion bits of information.

Our uncanny ability to quickly retrieve whatever information we need from the enormous store of our memories becomes more understandable if the brain functions according to holographic principles. If a friend asks you to tell him what comes to mind when he says the word "zebra", you do not have to clumsily sort back through some gigantic and cerebral alphabetic file to arrive at an answer. Instead, associations like "striped", "horselike", and "animal native to Africa" all pop into your head instantly. Indeed, one of the most amazing things about the human thinking process is that every piece of information seems instantly cross- correlated with every other piece of information--another feature intrinsic to the hologram. Because every portion of a hologram is infinitely interconnected with every other portion, it is perhaps nature's supreme example of a cross-correlated system.

The storage of memory is not the only neurophysiological puzzle that becomes more tractable in light of Pribram's holographic model of the brain. Another is how the brain is able to translate the avalanche of frequencies it receives via the senses (light frequencies, sound frequencies, and so on) into the concrete world of our perceptions.

Encoding and decoding frequencies is precisely what a hologram does best. Just as a hologram functions as a sort of lens, a translating device able to convert an apparently meaningless blur of frequencies into a coherent image, Pribram believes the brain also comprises a lens and uses holographic principles to mathematically convert the frequencies it receives through the senses into the inner world of our perceptions.

An impressive body of evidence suggests that the brain uses holographic principles to perform its operations. Pribram's theory, in fact, has gained increasing support among neurophysiologists.

Argentinian-Italian researcher Hugo Zucarelli recently extended the holographic model into the world of acoustic phenomena. Puzzled by the fact that humans can locate the source of sounds without moving their heads, even if they only possess hearing in one ear, Zucarelli discovered that holographic principles can explain this ability. Zucarelli has also developed the technology of holophonic sound, a recording technique able to reproduce acoustic situations with an almost uncanny realism.

Pribram's belief that our brains mathematically construct "hard" reality by relying on input from a frequency domain has also received a good deal of experimental support. It has been found that each of our senses is sensitive to a much broader range of frequencies than was previously suspected. Researchers have discovered, for instance, that our visual systems are sensitive to sound frequencies, that our sense of smellisin part dependent on what are now called "osmic frequencies", and that even the cells in our bodies are sensitive to a broad range of frequencies. Such findings suggest that it is only in the holographic domain of consciousness that such frequencies are sorted out and divided up into conventional perceptions.

But the most mind-boggling aspect of Pribram's holographic model of the brain is what happens when it is put together with Bohm's theory. For if the concreteness of the world is but a secondary reality and what is "there" is actually a holographic blur of frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects some of the frequencies out of this blur and mathematically transforms them into sensory perceptions, what becomes of objective reality? Put quite simply, it ceases to exist. As the religions of the East have long upheld, the material world is Maya, an illusion, and although we may think we are physical beings moving through a physical world, this too is an illusion.

We are really "receivers" floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into physical reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the superhologram.

This striking new picture of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and Pribram's views, has come to be called the-holographic paradigm, and although many scientists have greeted it with skepticism, it has galvanized others. A small but growing group of researchers believe it may be the most accurate model of reality science has arrived at thus far. More than that, some believe it may solve some mysteries that have never before been explainable by science and even establish the paranormal as a part of nature. Numerous researchers, including Bohm and Pribram, have noted that many para-psychological phenomena become much more understandable in terms of the holographic paradigm.

In a universe in which individual brains are actually indivisible portions of the greater hologram and everything is infinitely interconnected, telepathy may merely be the accessing of the holographic level.

It is obviously much easier to understand how information can travel from the mind of individual 'A' to that of individual 'B' at a far distance point and helps to understand a number of unsolvedpuzzles in psychology.

In particular, Stanislav Grof feels the holographic paradigm offers a model for understanding many of the baffling phenomena experienced by individuals during altered states of consciousness. In the 1950s, while conducting research into the beliefs of LSD as a psychotherapeutic tool, Grof had one female patient who suddenly became convinced she had assumed the identity of a female of a species of prehistoric reptile. During the course of her hallucination, she not only gave a richly detailed description of what it felt like to be encapsuled in such a form, but noted that the portion of the male of the species's anatomy was a patch of colored scales on the side of its head. What was startling to Grof was that although the woman had no prior knowledge about such things, a conversation with a zoologist later confirmed that in certain species of reptiles colored areas on the head do indeed play an important role as triggers of sexual arousal. The woman's experience was not unique. During the course of his research, Grof encountered examples of patients regressing and identifying with virtually every species on the evolutionary tree (research findings which helped influence the man-into-ape scene in the movie Altered States). Moreover, he found that such experiences frequently contained obscure zoological details which turned out to be accurate.

Regressions into the animal kingdom were not the only puzzling psychological phenomena Grof encountered. He also had patients who appeared to tap into some sort of collective or racial unconscious. Individuals with little or no education suddenly gave detailed descriptions of Zoroastrian funerary practices and scenes from Hindu mythology. In other categories of experience, individuals gave persuasive accounts of out-of-body journeys, of precognitive glimpses of the future, of regressions into apparent past-life incarnations.

In later research, Grof found the same range of phenomena manifested in therapy sessions which did not involve the use of drugs. Because the common element in such experiences appeared to be the transcending of an individual's consciousness beyond the usual boundaries of ego and/or limitations of space and time, Grof called such manifestations "transpersonal experiences", and in the late '60s he helped found a branch of psychology called "transpersonal psychology" devoted entirely to their study.

Although Grof's newly founded Association of Transpersonal Psychology garnered a rapidly growing group of like-minded professionals and has become a respected branch of psychology, for years neither Grof or any of his colleagues were able to offer a mechanism for explaining the bizarre psychological phenomena they were witnessing. But that has changed with the advent of the holographic paradigm.

As Grof recently noted, if the mind is actually part of a continuum, a labyrinth that is connected not only to every other mind that exists or has existed, but to every atom, organism, and region in the vastness of space and time itself, the fact that it is able to occasionally make forays into the labyrinth and have transpersonal experiences no longer seems so strange.

The holographic paradigm also has implications for so-called hard sciences like biology. Keith Floyd, a psychologist at Virginia Intermont College, has pointed out that if the concreteness of reality is but a holographic illusion, it would no longer be true to say the brain produces consciousness. Rather, it is consciousness that creates the appearance of the brain -- as well as the body and everything else around us we interpret as physical.

Such a turnabout in the way we view biological structures has caused researchers to point out that medicine and our understanding of the healing process could also be transformed by the holographic paradigm. If the apparent physical structure of the body is but a holographic projection of consciousness, it becomes clear that each of us is much more responsible for our health than current medical wisdom allows. What we now view as miraculous remissions of disease may actually be due to changes in consciousness which in turn effect changes in the hologram of the body.

Similarly, controversial new healing techniques such as visualization may work so well because, in the holographic domain of thought, images are ultimately as real as "reality".

Even visions and experiences involving "non-ordinary" reality become explainable under the holographic paradigm. In his book "Gifts of Unknown Things," biologist Lyall Watson describes his encounter with an Indonesian shaman woman who, by performing a ritual dance, was able to make an entire grove of trees instantly vanish into thin air. Watson relates that as he and another astonished onlooker continued to watch the woman, she caused the trees to reappear, then "click" off again and on again several times in succession.

Although current scientific understanding is incapable of explaining such events, experiences like this become more tenable if "hard" reality is only a holographic projection. Perhaps we agree on what is "there" or "not there" because what we call consensus reality is formulated and ratified at the level of the human unconscious at which all minds are infinitely interconnected. If this is true, it is the most profound implication of the holographic paradigm of all, for it means that experiences such as Watson's are not commonplace only because we have not programmed our minds with the beliefs that would make them so. In a holographic universe there are no limits to the extent to which we can alter the fabric of reality.

What we perceive as reality is only a canvas waiting for us to draw upon it any picture we want. Anything is possible, from bending spoons with the power of the mind to the phantasmagoric events experienced by Castaneda during his encounters with the Yaqui brujo don Juan, for magic is our birthright, no more or less miraculous than our ability to compute the reality we want when we are in our dreams.

Indeed, even our most fundamental notions about reality become suspect, for in a holographic universe, as Pribram has pointed out, even random events would have to be seen as based on holographic principles and therefore determined. Synchronicities or meaningful coincidences suddenly makes sense, and everything in reality would have to be seen as a metaphor, for even the most haphazard events would express some underlying symmetry.

Whether Bohm and Pribram's holographic paradigm becomes accepted in science or dies an ignoble death remains to be seen, but it is safe to say that it has already had an influence on the thinking of many scientists. And even if it is found that the holographic model does not provide the best explanation for the instantaneous communications that seem to be passing back and forth between subatomic particles, at the very least, as noted by Basil Hiley, a physicist at Birbeck College in London, Aspect's findings "indicate that we must be prepared to consider radically new views of reality".

Once you grasp the essential whole-in-part of the holographic model, you will be ready, in the words of the poet William Blake:

To see the World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an Hour.

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Additional references:
The evidence and implications of a holographic universe
http://www.crystalinks.com/holographic.html
http://www.mindpowernews.com/Hologram.htm

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Come to Me alone!

2010-03-09T10:21:00.003+08:00

You must perform your work without seeing yourself doing it!
You must give charity without any regard to it!

Your act of goodness, even though may looks good, is not worthy of Me to look at. So do not come to me with them!

In fact, if you come to me armed with your goods deeds, I will greet you with billing and calculations. If you come armed with your knowledge, it will be greeted with the demands! And if you come to me with ma'rifat, I will greet you with my “hujjah”, but surely my hujjah is invincible.

Get rid of any endeavor (ikhtiar), then I would remove my claim aginst you. Put aside your knowledge, your good deeds, your ma'rifat, your own characteristic (sifat), and your name (asma) and all thare is (when you visit me ), so that you meet Me alone.

When you come to Me, and still there is between Me and you one of those things, when I was the one who actually created them, and i have remove them from you because of my love to draw near to you, so do not take them all with you when you come to Me, if you are still so, they no longer remain any kindness from you.

If only you knew, when you are entering Me, surely you will even try to separate yourselves from the angels, although they all work together to help you, because of your doubts (there is helper beside Him). Then let not be any other helper beside Me.

Do not you step out the house without expecting my pleasure, because I am here waiting to be your guidance.

Meet Me in your loneliness, once or twice after your shalat, I will certainly look after you, day and night. I will keep watching over your heart, I will look after of your daily business, your will and expectation.

Do you know how you can came to see me alone? You should bear withness that you receive my guidance is because my generousity. Do not assume that you are forgiven because of your good deeds, nor beacuse of your knowledge.

Return to me all your books of knowledge, sent home your records of goods deeds, I will undoubtedly open my hands, I will made it to bear fruit with my blessing, and suffice for you my generousity. "

From Muhammad ibn al-Hasan an-Niffari ‘Al-Mawaqif wal Mukhtabat’

Leave behind your cleverness, O lover of God: go crazy instead. Become a moth: enter the flame! - Rumi

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Kitab Al-Hikam

2010-03-03T11:41:00.008+08:00

Kitab Al-Hikam merupakan sebuah kitab yang sangat terkenal dikalangan peminat ilmu tasawuf dan sering diajar di surau dan masjid di Malaysia dan Indonesia.

Saya sudah membacanya berulang kali dan mendapati ia sangat memberi manfaat kepada saya. Sehingga sekarang pun saya masih mengulangi membacanya. Bagi saya kitab tersebut banyak menjawab persoalan penting mengenai ilmu ketuhanan dan memberi banyak petunjuk kepada usaha mengenal Allah dan bagaimana patut memperbaiki diri kita untuk beroleh sampai kepadaNya. Hal tersebut telah diungkap dengan begitu baik dan halus sekali sehingga kita tidak akan menyedari hal tersebut sehinggalah ianya dibukakan untuk kita. Ia itu setelah dibukakan kepada kita pemahaman yang sebenarnya sebagai mana yang diingginkan oleh pengarang kitab tersebut. Hal tersebut pastinya menuntut kita untuk bergurukan seorang yang betul-betul layak.

Pengarang kitab tersebut yang terkenal dengan panggilan Sheikh Ibnu Atho 'illah berasal dari bangsa Arab. Beliau lahirkan sekitar tahun 658 sampai 679 H.

Dipermulaan hidupnya, beliau merupakan ulamak ilmu tafsir, hadits, fiqih, usul, nahwu dan lain-lain yang terkenal di Iskandariah. Di awal hidupnya beliau menjadi penentang dan mengingkari para ahli tasawwuf karena kefanatikannya pada ilmu fiqih. Serba sedikit disebabkan oleh pengaruh abang beliau sendiri.

Ibnu Atho 'illah menceritakan :

"Suatu ketika aku mengalami goncangan batin dan jiwa tertekan. Aku bertanya-tanya dalam hatiku : "Apakah semestinya aku membenci tasawuf. Apakah suatu yang benar kalau aku tidak menyukai Abul Abbas al-Mursi (seorang guru tasawuf)?. Setelah lama aku merenung, berfikir akhirnya aku beranikan diriku untuk mendekatnya, melihat siapa al-Mursi sesungguhnya, apa yang ia ajarkan sebenarnya. Kalau memang ia orang baik dan benar maka semuanya akan kelihatan. Kalau tidak demikian halnya biarlah ini menjadi jalan hidupku yang tidak sealiran dengan tasawuf.

Lalu aku datang ke majlisnya. Aku mendengar, menyemak ceramahnya dengan tekun tentang masalah-masalah syara'. Tentang kewajiban, keutamaan dan sebagainya. Di sini jelas semua bahwa ternyata al-Mursi yang kelak menjadi guru sejatiku ini mengambil ilmu langsung dari Tuhan. Dan segala puji bagi Allah, Dia telah menghilangkan rasa bimbang yang ada dalam hatiku".

Maka demikianlah, ketika ia sudah mengecap manisnya tasawuf hatinya semakin tertambat untuk masuk ke dalam dan lebih dalam lagi. Sehingga ia sampai kepadanya suatu fikiran bahawa beliau tidak akan dapat menjadi seorang sufi sejati kecuali dengan masuk ke dunia itu sepenuhnya, berhasrat untuk menghabiskan seluruh waktunya untuk sang guru dan meningalkan aktiviti lain. Namun demikian ia tidak berani memutuskan keinginannya itu kecuali setelah mendapatkan izin dari sang guru al-Mursi.

Dalam hal ini Ibn Atho 'illah menceritakan :

"Aku menghadap guruku al-Mursi, dan dalam hatiku ada keinginan untuk meninggalkan ilmu dzahir. Belum sempat aku mengutarakan apa yang terkandung dalam hatiku ini tiba-tiba guruku berkata : "Di kota Qous aku mempunyai kawan namanya Ibnu Naasyi’. Dulu dia adalah pengajar di Qous dan sebagai wakil penguasa. Dia merasakan sedikit manisnya tariqah kita. Kemudian ia menghadapku dan berkata : "Tuanku… apakah sebaiknya aku meninggalkan tugasku sekarang ini dan berkhidmat saja pada tuan?". Aku memandangnya sebentar kemudian aku katakan : "Tidak demikian itu tariqah kita. Tetaplah dengan kedudukan yang sudah di tentukan Allah padamu. Apa yang menjadi garis tanganmu akan sampai padamu juga".

Setelah bercerita semacam itu yang sebetulnya adalah nasehat untuk diriku beliau berkata: “Beginilah keadaan orang-orang al-Siddiqiyyin. Mereka sama sekali tidak keluar dari suatu kedudukan yang sudah ditentukan Allah sampai Dia sendiri yang mengeluarkan mereka". Mendengar uraian panjang lebar semacam itu aku tersadar dan tidak bisa mengucapkan sepatah katapun. Dan alhamdulillah Allah telah menghapus angan kebimbangan yang ada dalam hatiku, sepertinya aku baru saja melepas pakaianku. Aku pun rela tenang dengan kedudukan yang diberikan oleh Allah".

Akhirnya Sheikh Ibnu Atho 'illah diangkat menggantikan tempat gurunya setelah gurunya dijemput mengadap Allah.

Peristiwa di atas turut disebut di dalam kitab Al-Hikam sebagai sebahagian daripada ulasan mengenai hikmah kedua (di halaman 11) yang bermaksud:

Keinginan untuk tajrid (melulu beribadat, tanpa berusaha dunia), padahal Allah masih menempatkan engkau pada golongan orang-orang yang harus berusaha (kasab) untuk mendapat keperluan sehari-hari, maka keinginanmu itu termasuk syahwat hawa nafsu yang samar (halus). Sebaliknya keinginanmu untuk berusaha kasab, padahal Allah telah menempatkan dirimu pada golongan orang yang melulu beribadat tanpa kasab, maka keinginan yang demikian bererti menurun dari semangat dan tingkat yang tinggi.

Bersambung...

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Pembuka Segala Rahsia

2010-02-23T10:54:00.001+08:00

Sekapur Sirih

Daripada penulis Kitab Ini

Kitab Kasyful Asrar ini ditulis oleh Syeikh Mohd Saleh bin Abdullah Mengkabau yang begitu menarik adalah untuk memberikan pengajaran kepada orang yang inginkan akhirat dalam usaha menyampaikan ke arahnya. Mudah-mudahan mendapat manfaat daripada limpah kurnia-Nya daripada Tuhan sekalian alam di kemudian hari. Amin.

Sesiapa yang menyimpan kitab ini
Umpama duduk bersama guru setiap hari
Hendaklah dibaca pada setiap hari
Janganlah kurang tujuh hari sekali
Dapatkanlah ilmu kurniaan
Tuhan Yang mana ditegah kita jauhi
Iktikad yang betul kita ketahui
Iktikad yang salah kita jauhi
Menuntut ilmu wajib pada kita
Sebelum mengenal tidaklah terhingga
Amal dan ilmu wajib serta
Amalan tanpa ilmu diazab kita
Syarat rukunnya wajib diketahui
Sah batalnya demikian lagi
Amalan diterima Tuhan ilahi
Syarat rukunnya sudah kita ketahui
Sesiapa yang beramal dengan kejahilannya
Tidak mengetahui syarat rukunnya
Amalannya tidak diterima Tuhannya
Tidak mengetahui sah batalnya
Dan sesiapa yang suka akan kitab ini
Alamat petunjuk Tuhan ilahi
Dan sesiapa tidak suka akan kitab ini
Alamat mengikut iblis syaitan
Wahai saudara-saudaraku yang tua dan muda
Hendaklah berfikir sentiasa
Jangan seperti orang buta
Meninggalkan ibadat mencari harta
Tidak teringat yang hidup akan mati
Bersuka ria jua sepanjang hari
Hanya harta yang mendapatkan diri
Tiga lapis kapan saja yang diberi.

Salah satu buku yang menjadi rujukan saya di dalam permasalahan ilmu tasawuf. Buku ini telah siap ditulis pada 27hb Safar 1344H. Bermakna buku ini telah siap ditulis kira-kira 87 tahun (hijrah) yang lalu. Sehingga ini ia masih menjadi rujukan penting peminat-peminat tasawuf di Malaysia.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

The Visit

2010-02-19T13:15:00.000+08:00

ONE day at the dawn

The fair idol entered my door

And woke me from my sleep

Of slothful ignorance.

The secret chamber of my soul

Was illumined by His face,

And my being was revealed to me

In its true light.

I heaved a sigh of wonder

When I saw that fair face.

He spoke to me, saying,

"All thy life thou has sought

Name and fame;

This self-seeking of thine

Is an illusion, keeping thee back from Me.

To glance at My face for an instant

Is worth a thousand years of devotion."

Yes, the face of that world-adorner

Was shown unveiled before mine eyes;

My soul was darkened with shame

To remember my lost life,

My wasted days.

Poem by SA’D UD DIN MAHMŪD SHABISTARĪ who was born at Shabistar, near Tabriz, about A.D. 1250. He wrote the Gulshan i Rāz, or Secret Rose Garden, as a reply to questions put forth by a Sūfī doctor of Herat named Dmir Syad Hosaini.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Journey of Love

2010-02-14T12:03:00.002+08:00

the saints and prophets and masters
are made of the same stuff as you and me
the difference is that they had the
courage to die to this world
they had the guts to let go of this
flimsy raft of self
they leaped willfully into the Flame
they walked deliberately on the journey of Love
what’is stopping you?

Poem by: Wahiduddin Richard Shelquist

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Siapa wali Allah?

2010-02-12T09:30:00.000+08:00

Siapakah yang digelar wali Allah?

1. Ibnu Abas seperti yang tercatit dalam tafsir Al Khazin menyatakan “ Wali-wali Allah itu adalah orang yang mengingat Allah dalam melihat”.

2. Al Imam Tabari meriyawatkan daripada Saeed bin Zubair berkata bahawa Rasulullah s.a.w. telah ditanya orang tentang Wali-wali Allah. Baginda mengatakan “Mereka itu adalah orang yang apabila melihat, mereka melihat Allah”.

3. Abu Bakar Al Asam mengatakan “Wali-wali allah itu adalah orang yang diberi hidayat oleh Allah dan mereka pula menjalankan kewajiban penghambaan terhadap Allah serta menjalankan dakwah menyeru manusia kepada Allah”.

Petikan di atas diambil daripada buku kompilasi "Mengenali Wali-Wali Allah Dan Karamah Mereka", dari ceramah-ceramah Bulanan Tasauf - Masjid Khadijah. Muka surat 4 & 5

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Two Ways

2010-02-11T13:27:00.003+08:00

Two ways,
but only one leads to happiness.

Some will try to
tell God how to run the world,
demanding this and demanding that.

Others will quietly listen and observe
as The Beloved governs the world,
accepting this and accepting that.
Your choice.

Poem by: Wahiduddin Richard Shelquist (Rendezvous with the Beloved)

In about similar way Shaikh Ibn 'ata 'illah has said in the book of Al-Hikam, the following "In the morning, the one who does not understand will consider what he will do (during the day), while the one who understands will consider what the One will do with him (during that day)."

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Tinggalkan dirimu!

2010-02-10T10:12:00.006+08:00

Ungkapan-ungkapan berikut sangat menarik untuk diperhatikan kerana mempunyai pengertian yang sangat mendalam di dalam ilmu kesufian:

"Until you become an unbeliever in your own self, you cannot become a believer in God." Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir - 'Nobody, Son of Nobody'

"In our strugle to become something, we become nothing. Only when, we are willing to be nothing, can we become something" - Wahiduddin Richard Shelquist.

Manusia secara semula jadi menginginkan dirinya menjadi seseorang yang hebat dan dikenali oleh orang lain, menjadi orang yang berpengaruh dan dihormati, keinginan itu mungkin berkait dengan dunia (seperti menjadi orang yang kaya dan berpangkat) ataupun akhirat (seperti menjadi orang alim dan ulamak terkenal).

Selagi mana keinginan itu tetap berada didalam diri kita (yang berkaitan dengan keinginan yang bersifat dunia atau keinginan kepada selain daripada Allah), maka selama itu lah kita akan tetap jauh dari Tuhan. Hanya apa bila kita sudah bersedia untuk tidak menjadi sesesiapa (melainkan menjadi diri kita yang sendiri yang sebenarnya), barulah kita akan dapat menjadi orang yang dekat kepada Tuhan.

Syaikh sufi yang sangat besar, Bayazid al-Bistami, dan kisah yang terkenal ketika dia menyaksikan Tuhan dalam kasyf dan dia berkata kepada Dia: ” Ya Allah, bagaimana jalan menuju Engkau?”. Dan Allah menjawab: “Tinggalkan dirimu dan datanglah kepada-Ku”

Perkataan-perkataan di atas mengandungi rahsia yang sangat besar di dalam perjalanan seseorang untuk mendekatkan diri kepada Tuhan. Semua hanya mungkin setelah kita dapat "Meninggalkan diri kita lalu menuju Dia". Bagaimanakah ini dapat kita lakukan?

Sama-sama kita mencari jawapannya. Semuga ianya memberi manfaat untuk kita semua.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Loving ourself as we are

2010-02-09T12:06:00.002+08:00

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.

Stacey Charter

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Being thankful

2010-02-04T00:09:00.002+08:00

How could I ever thank my Friend?
No thanks could ever begin to be worthy.
Every hair of my body is a gift from Him;
How could I thank Him for each hair?
Praise that lavish Lord forever
Who from nothing conjures all living beings!
Who could ever describe His goodness?
His infinite glory lays all praise waste.
Look, He has graced you a robe of splendor
From childhood's first cries to old age!
He made you pure in His own image; stay pure.
It is horrible to die blackened by sin.
Never let dust settle on your mirror's shining;
Let it once grow dull and it will never polish.
When you work in the world to earn your living
Do not, for one moment, rely on your own strength.
Self-worshiper, don't you understand anything yet?
It is God alone that gives your arms their power.
If, by your striving, you achieve something good,
Don't claim the credit all for yourself;
It is fate that decides who wins and who loses
And all success streams only from the grace of God.
In this world you never stand by your own strength;
It is the Invisible that sustains you every moment.

By Saadi, translation by Andrew Harvey and Eryk Hanut - 'Perfume of the Desert'
Saadi of Shiraz (1215-1292), a great poet of Persia, author of the Gulistan (Rose-Garden) and the Bostan (Orchard), who also wrote many odes and lyrics.
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How tollerance are we?

2010-02-03T00:30:00.001+08:00

You might have seen similar video before but try to view this to completion.

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Syukur

2010-02-02T09:40:00.004+08:00

Tersebut kisah tentang seorang raja perkasa zaman dahulu yang hobinya memburu binatang. Satu hari ketika beliau sedang sibuk memburu, kudanya berteriak kuat sambil mengangkat dua kakinya ke atas. Raja terperanjat, lalu terpelanting jatuh. Jari kelingkingnya putus. Raja sangat marah. “Sudahlah Tuanku. Kalau kena musibah, lebih baik kita bersyukur sahaja,” kata seorang penasihatnya.

Raja bukannya bertambah tenang malah bertambah murka. Dengan lantang baginda berteriak : ‘Penjarakan penasihat kurang ajar ini!’ Para pengawal yang selalu taat, tidak berani untuk membantah, melaksanakan perintah itu. Sang penasihat pun dihumban ke penjara.

Lima tahun kemudian, ketika sedang berburu, raja ini ditangkap oleh sekumpulan orang asli. Raja gagah berkulit putih ini akan dipersembahkan sebagai korban pada dewa. Hanya sahaja, setelah diteliti, aduhai jari kelingkingnya terpotong. Cacat dan tidak sempurna. Kaum asli tersebut terpaksa membatalkan niatnya untuk mengorbankan baginda kepada dewa. Sebagai penggantinya, pengawalnya yang tidak cacat dijadikan korban. Pengawal itu dikorbankan, dan rajanya dipulangkan.

Setelah itu raja menyedari kesalahannya. Penasihat yang dulu dipenjara itu pun dilepaskan. “Beta memang harus bersyukur kerana tidak memiliki kelingking,” kata Raja, mengakui kesalahannya. Ternyata, sang penasihat pun bersyukur, “Kalau saya tidak dipenjarakan oleh Tuanku, mungkin, hamba sudah menggantikan Tuanku sebagai korban.”

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How to please Allah

2010-02-01T10:57:00.002+08:00

Hazrat Ibrahim ibn Adham, when he was still an emperor bought a slave and asked him a few questions. The answers so impressed him that he freed the slave and submitted himself to the path of God. He eventually became a spiritual King and obtained nearness of God.

The nature of the conversation is reproduced below for our benefit:

Hazrat Adham: What will you eat?
Slave: Whatever you will feed me.
Hazrat Adham: What will you wear?
Slave: Whatever you will give.
Hazrat Adham: What is your name?
Slave: Whatever you wish to call me will be my name.
Hazrat Adham: What would you like to do?
Slave: Whatever you will command me to do.
Hazrat Adham: Do you have any desire?
Slave: What does a servant have to do with desires?

There is something very important that we could learn from this conversation especially for those who aspire to please Allah and to obtain nearness to Him.

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Who am I?

2010-01-29T10:02:00.007+08:00

“Tidak ada sesuatupun yang lebih dekat kepadamu selain dirimu sendiri, jika kau tidak memahami dirimu, bagaimana kau dapat memahami orang lain?

Kau mungkin berkata, “aku memahami diriku”, tetapi kau salah!…Satu-satunya yang kau ketahui tentang dirimu hanyalah penampilan fizikalmu. Satu-satunya yang kau ketahui tentang ‘nafs’mu (jiwa) adalah ketika kau lapar kau makan, ketika kau marah kau berbuat kegemparan. Semua binatang memiliki kesamaan dengan dirimu dalam hal ini.

Kau harus mencari kebenaran di dalam dirimu… Siapa dirimu? Darimana datangnya dirimu dan kemana kau akan pergi? Apa perananmu di dunia ini? Mengapa kau diciptakan? Dimana kebahagiaan sejatimu berada?

Jika kau ingin mengetahui tentang dirimu, kau harus mengetahui bahwa kau diciptakan dari dua hal. Pertama adalah tubuhmu dan penampilan luarmu (zahir) yang dapat kau lihat dengan matamu. Bahagian lainnya adalah jiwamu. Jiwamu adalah bahagian yang tidak mungkin kau lihat tetapi boleh kau ketahui dengan pengetahuanmu yang mendalam.

Kebenaran akan kewujudanmu ada di dalam jiwamu. Hal lainnya hanyalah pengabdi bagi jiwamu.”

- From the book of Imam Al Ghazali “The Alchemy of Happiness”

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Menjadi seorang yang suci

2010-01-28T14:18:00.006+08:00

“Kau tidak akan menjadi seseorang yang suci hingga kau laksana bumi, baik terhadap golongan yang soleh mahupun golongan pendosa diperlakukan secara sama,

dan hingga kau laksana awan, yang menaungi segala sesuatu,

dan hingga kau bagaikan hujan, yang mengairi segala sesuatu, walaupun mereka mencintainya atau tidak.”

- Sheikh Abu Yazid al-Bisthami

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Is Reality Merely An Illusion?

2010-01-27T00:03:00.024+08:00

An interesting article on the subject of Reality Vs Illusion. This article was send to me through an email subscriptions in the last couple of days. I am sharing this with all you.

Every action and all matter that has developed in the universe conforms to what we know as reality. The idea that our universe passes like a giant's dream, or like a product of a very complex virtual reality program, more closely resembles an ingenious science fiction script than the crude and imperfect world in which we move every day.

However, the reality that we perceive seems to be contrary to scientific logic, if we bear in mind that matter hardly exists. The construction blocks of visible matter are atoms, which are merely small nuclei lost in the middle of a great spacial emptiness, surrounded by nearly invisible particles (electrons) that orbit them at magnificent speeds. If our bodies were to be put under a powerful microscope, what would be seen would probably be a sea of sand grains in perpetual motion.

According to recent research in the field of quantum physics, all of what we know as matter -- the solid cement of what appears to be what our reality is composed of -- could be nothing more than quantum fluctuations in the middle of the empty universe.

A group of physicists led by Dr. Stephen Durr from the John Von Neumann Institute in Germany confirmed that the sum of the three subatomic particles that make up protons and neutrons (called quarks) barely represent 1 percent of their total mass.

Such evidence suggests that the rest of the nuclear mass would consist of gluons, ephemeral particles that bubble in the middle of the emptiness, which function to maintain the unity among the trio of quarks inside protons and neutrons. This fact suggests the hypothesis that our tangible reality might be mere fluctuations of emptiness or purely nothing.

The Other Truth

What we see with our physical eyes is greatly reduced to a convenient scope. Possessing a pair of eyes that could see only microscopic particles would make it impossible for us to move in a world with objects so large, as the objects with which we generally interact are composed of billions and billions of microscopic particles.

According to biologist Richard Dawkins, rocks only feel hard and impenetrable to our hands because they can’t penetrate each other. For us, it is useful to have notions of hardness and solidity as it helps us navigate our world.

Navigating in an illusory reality, we have to accept that somewhere in the universe another reality can be found. There could be a gigantic slumber, a crazy bubble, or God, if you will.

Since the reality of particles cannot be more than smoke and shadows, it could be that the real existence of all objects in the cosmos resides in one or more parallel spaces. Many scientists speculate that, just like a three-dimensional object can project a two-dimensional shadow over the ground, a multidimensional universe (like the case of the String Theory) could cast a shadow in three-dimensional space.

If this theory is correct, every object and organism in this world would not be more than a gross representation of objects and organisms in a more "real" universe. Coinciding with this theory, the existence of an extracorporeal mind in another dimension might be the ideal explanation for why we have memory, as the atoms in our brains are replaced hundreds of time throughout the course of our lives. According to Steve Grand, author of "Creation: Life and How to Make It," none of the atoms that make up our bodies today would have been in our bodies during an event in our childhood that we remember.

Grand suggests that matter moves from one place to another and reunites momentarily so that you can be you. Therefore, you aren't the matter of which you are made. This would imply that our real bodies are in the space that we cannot comprehend -- while a virtual body, a mere container, would be what is in what we call reality.

Shadows and colors of light are crude projections of a "more real" reality. The universe that we live in presents itself as something even more illusory, where bodies, minds, and planets are parts of a great magic trick without a magician or an audience.

Scientists in Hanover, Germany, working on the GEO 600, which is an instrument that detects gravitational waves, believe they have discovered a "granulation" in space-time that indicates that our universe is nothing more than a giant hologram.

Those responsible for the GEO 600 believe that, in the same way a digital image loses resolution with significant increase in its size, the captured interference in the detector could be interpreted as the universe’s limited resolution of what it’s capable of providing to human eyes. There’s an exact point where the hologram of reality begins to "pixelize" itself.

The scientists suspect that the precision of the GEO 600, capable of detecting variations in longitudinal waves at the subatomic scale, served to discover the tiniest grains that compose the three-dimensional holographic universe, projected from the bidimensional confines of its interior.

You and I, Only Holograms

The idea of a holographic universe isn’t new. In the 1990s, scientists Leonard Susskind and Gerard Hooft suggested that the same principal that makes a two-dimensional image on a flat surface look three-dimensional could be applied to the entire universe.

Then, why do our senses perceive reality in such a distinct and "voluminous" way if we appear to be no more than shadows on a flat screen? The problem could be that our human eyes and our powerful telescope lenses conform to the reality of such a hologram of the rest of the universe.

The second point to consider is that our organic brain can also be found in the illusion, never being able to interpret a universe with a greater or fewer number of dimensions than can be perceived.

Neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, founder of the Center of Cerebral Research at the University of Radford in Virginia, thinks that our brains are holograms interpreting the hologram universe, mathematically constructing a reality interpreting frequencies that come from another dimension -- a domain of significant reality that transcends time and space.

Nevertheless, the theory of a holographic universe of only two special dimensions conflicts with multidimensional theories arising from the roots of the superchord theory. Before this mark of a disparate hypothesis, many scientists already suspected that the universe is a hologram or illusion created by particles in the emptiness. However, all of the scientific efforts to comprehend the truth amid the mirage have become trapped in a frustrating array of unprovable theories.

Many vanguard theorists think that the disturbing breach in the field of quantum physics and relativity could explain historically argued phenomena in the scientific field, like those in which the mind doesn’t seem to be associated to the brain -- such as near-death experiences, remote vision, and precognition.

In whatever case, Plato’s allegory of the cave would seem to be the most rational option now for explaining these vivid daily experiences that our brains interpret as being real appearances of the world.

By Leonardo Vintiñi / Source: Epoch Times
The same subject matter can be found at http://www.secretbeyondmatter.com/

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Doorkeeper of the Heart

2010-01-26T00:07:00.004+08:00

Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word
My choicest hours
Are the hours I spend with You --

O God, I can't live in this world
Without remembering You--
How can I endure the next world
Without seeing Your face?

I am a stranger in Your country
And lonely among Your worshippers:
This is the substance of my complaint.

A story as related by Rabiatul Adawiyah.

I saw myself in a wide green garden, more beautiful than I could begin to understand. In this garden was a young girl. I said to her, "How wonderful this place is!"

"Would you like to see a place even more wonderful than this?" she asked.
"Oh yes," I answered. Then taking me by the hand, she led me on until we came to a magnificent palace, like nothing that was ever seen by human eyes. The young girl knocked on the door, and someone opened it. Immediately both of us were flooded with light.

God alone knows the inner meaning of the maidens we saw living there. Each one carried in her hand a serving-tray filled with light. The young girl asked the maidens where they were going, and they answered her, "We are looking for someone who was drowned in the sea, and so became a martyr. She never slept at night, not one wink! We are going to rub funeral spices on her body

"Then rub some on my friend here," the young girl said.
"Once upon a time," said the maidens, "part of this spice and the fragrance of it clung to her body -- but then she shied away."
Quickly the young girl let go of my hand, turned, and said to me:

"Your prayers are your light;
Your devotion is your strength;
Sleep is the enemy of both.
Your life is the only opportunity that life can give you.
If you ignore it, if you waste it,
You will only turn to dust."

Then the young girl disappeared.

In love, nothing exists between breast and Breast.
Speech is born out of longing,
True description from the real taste.
The one who tastes, knows;
the one who explains, lies.
How can you describe the true form of Something
In whose presence you are blotted out?
And in whose being you still exist?
And who lives as a sign for your journey?

Excerpts from Doorkeeper of the Heart Versions of Rabi'a by Charles Upton

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Dilarang berdukacita terhadap dunia

2010-01-25T08:00:00.000+08:00

Peringatan dari Hadis Qudsi

“Barangsiapa yang berpagi-pagi di dalam keadaan berdukacita terhadap dunia, tidak akan bertambah hampir ia kepada Allah melainkan bertambah jauh. Tidak akan bertambah di dunia melainkan keletihan. Tidak akan bertambah di Akhirat melainkan azab. Allah akan mencampakkan rasa dukacita yang berterusan, kesibukan yang tidak ada kerehatan, kefakiran yang tidak memperolehi kekayaan dan angan-angan yang memanjang ke dalam hatinya.”

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Free Will

2010-01-20T13:05:00.006+08:00

You say, "I myself have Free-will,
For my body is the horse and my soul the rider,
The reins of the body are in the hands of the soul,
The entire direction is given to me."

Oh! foolish one, these are falsehoods and delusions
That come from an illusory existence.

As your essence is nothingness,
How can you have Free-will?
Seeing that your being is one with not-being,
Whence comes this Free-will of yours?

Imagination distributes actions
As in a play or a farce,

For when your actions were planned,
Before your existence,
You were created for a certain purpose,
By the desire of the Truth.
Therefore man is predestined, before his existence,
To certain appointed work.
. . . (Oh, wondrous ways of Thine, without how or why!)

The honour of man consists of slavery,
In having no share of Free-will.

Of himself man has nothing,
Yet of good and evil God asks him,
Man has no choice, he is under control.
Oh! poor soul, he seems free, yet is a slave.

Give yourself up to the Truth,
For you are helpless in his grasp;
Freedom from self you will find in the All,
And, O Dervish! in the Truth you will find riches.

This article which was posted much earlier may be relevant as it was about the same topic. Click Here

By Sa'd ud Din Mahmud Shabistari who was born in Persia, in Shabistar, near Tabriz, about 1250 CE. His best known work, The Secret Rose Garden was written as a reply to questions by a Sufi doctor of Herat. The above is from the said The Secret Rose Garden

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Differences and Distinctions

2010-01-19T08:52:00.000+08:00

Differences and distinctions

are merely a starting place,

a place of the beginning,

a place before understanding.

There is a Wholeness,

Completeness,

beyond differences,

beyond distinctions.

The one who does not know

will see differences and distinctions everywhere,

While the one who truly knows

will see the wonders of Divine Glory everywhere.

Poem from Journey of the Heart collection

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Surrender

2010-01-18T12:56:00.000+08:00

Surrender is a moment in time when, standing on the bridge of daily chores watching the flow of the Great River of Life, one suddenly realizes the true source of all that is beautiful, and that our true destiny is to be willfully and joyfully engulfed by the Great River.

That is the moment of giving up selfishness, clinging and stubborn independence. And in that moment, there is no choice but to leap from the bridge and plunge headlong into the Great River, willing to be carried wherever It may choose.

Poem from Journey of the Heart collection

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

What is in your purse?

2010-01-15T09:13:00.004+08:00

The story below is related by the great Sufi teacher Attar:

As the Prophet Isa and his disciples entered a village, some of the villagers began to harass the Prophet, shouting unkind words and harsh accusations.

But the Prophet answered them by bowing down and saying prayers for their happiness and well-being.

A disciple said to him: 'You prayed for these men, aren't you filled with anger toward them ?'

Prophet Isa answered: 'I could only spend from what I had in my purse.'

When the situation is pleasant and comfortable, it is easy to be nice. But when we're faced with an unpleasant situation, then we begin to react from the very foundation of our being and automatically draw from of the depths of our purse. If, in such difficult situations, we respond in an unwholesome manner with anger, fear, hatred or violence, then that shows all too clearly what our purse really contains.

So, my dear friends, what's in your purse?

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Perhatikan lah aib sendiri

2010-01-14T10:15:00.005+08:00

"Ada lah satu kecelaan apabila kita lupa kepada keaiban yang ada pada diri kita sendiri lalu memandang keaiban orang lain. Kita sering menyebut-nyebut keaiban saudara kita yang lain yang patut kekal tersembunyi. Andai kata kita orang yang berakal nescaya kita tidak akan mengaibkan orang lain. Pada diri kita sendiri penuh dengan keaiban, andainya diperhatikan cukuplah bagi kita."

- Ahli Sufi

Pandangan di atas adalah selari dengan pendapat Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishty (R.A.) yang berkata "A person who has firm faith and believes in Allah doesn’t complain of others behaviour" yang membawa maksud seseorang yang benar (kuat) aqidah dan keimanannya kepada Allah tidak akan bersungut (berkata dengan tujuan mengeji atau mengumpat) atas kelakuan serta perbuatan orang lain samada kepada dirinya sendiri atau kepada orang lain. Ia lebih suka memilih diam dari berkata-kata sesuatu yang menyentuh peribadi atau kelakuan orang lain. Sekiranya ia memberi nasihat, nasihatnya adalah yang bersifat umum sahaja tanpa mengaitkan dengan mana-mana peribadi.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Knowledge of all things is within us.

2010-01-13T10:36:00.005+08:00

According to Ibnu Arabi, Allah deposited within all of us knowledge of all things, and then He blocked us from perceiving it; this is one of the divine mysteries that reason denies totally and thinks impossible. This mean that we are not able to gain this knowledge using our reasoning and thinking ability alone. Most of this knowledge is also not available by normal method of learning through books.

"And He taught Adam the names - all of them. Then He showed them to the angels and said, "Inform Me of the names of these, if you are truthful." (Quran 2:31)

The nearness of the mystery to those who do not know is like God's nearness to His servant, as proclaimed in His words,

"We are nearer to Him than you, but you do not see" (Quran 56:83) and His words, "We are nearer to Him than His jugular vein" (Quran 50:16).

Despite this nearness, the servant does not perceive or know anything; no one can know what is within himself until it is revealed to him moment by moment.

For those who seek and travel on the path to know himself this special knowledge will be revealed directly to him moment by moment. But this is only so after he reached a certain level of "knowing himself".

To reach to that stage he must do so under the guidance of Wise Spritual Master. It is wise for us not to deny the existence of such knowledge.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Wise saying of the living sheikh

2010-01-12T08:54:00.002+08:00

Do you think that this creation can be in existence without a Lord? Do you think that for this existence, for the whole creation, which is in existence, there is no one saying, This belongs to me"? Do you think that for all this creation no one is coming, saying, "I created it"?

What is that foolishness? But nowadays people do not ask this question. They say “It was in times unknown and in an unknown space. We don’t know its beginning nor its end. Therefore, we don’t know anything about that One...” - Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Al-Haqqni

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Dua jenis kematian

2010-01-05T11:41:00.003+08:00

Sebagai mana yang diceritakan oleh Sheikh Abdul Qadir Al-Jilani di dalam bukunya Pembukaan kepada yang Ghaib (Futuh Al-Ghaib)

Sesuatu perkara telah mengacau fikiran saya pada suatu hari. Batin saya berasa berat dengan beban dan saya pohon kesenangan dan kesentosaan dan jalan keluar. Saya ditanya apa yang saya mahu.

Kata saya. "Saya mahu mati yang tidak ada kehidupan dalamnya dan satu kehidupan yang tidak ada mati di dalamnya,"

Maka saya pun ditanya apakah jenis mati yang tidak ada kehidupan di dalamnya dan apakah jenis kehidupan yang tidak ada mati di dalamnya, jawab saya:

"Mati yang tidak ada kehidupan di dalamnya ialah matiku dari jenisku sendiri supaya saya tidak melihatnya sama ada memberi manfaat atau memberi mudarat, dan mati dari diriku sendiri dan keinginanku, tujuanku, dan harapku dalam hal dunia dan akhirat, sehingga saya tidak ada dalam semua ini. [Sheikh Abdul Qadir menganggap makhluk langsung tiada ada kuasa memberi manfaat atau mudarat sedikitpun kepada beliau dan berusaha mematikan keinginan nafsunya kepada selain dari Allah, hatta balasn akhirat sekalipun. Beliau berada didalam keadan tawakal seperti mayat ditangan yang memandikan mayat. Iaitu mati dari kehendak dan keinginan diri sendiri - Rbain]

Berkenaan kehidupan yang tidak ada mati di dalamnya, ialah kehidupanku dengan lakuan tuhanku dalam keadaan saya tidak ada wujud dalamnya, dan matiku di dalamnya ialah wujudku dengannya. [Sheikh Abdul Qadir menganggap semua kewujudan selain daripada Allah itu tidak wujud pada hakikatnya dan yang wujud hanya lah Allah semata-mata. Makhluk tidak ada perbuatan sendiri melainkan Allah yang melakukan perbuatan. Seperti firman Allah di dalam surah Al-Imran

"..Dan bukanlah engkau (wahai Muhammad) yang melempar ketika engkau melempar, akan tetapi Allah jualah yang melempar ...Al-Quran 8:17)

- Bagi beliau itulah kehidupan yang sebenar-benarnya - Rbain].

Oleh kerana saya telah mengetahui maka ini telah menjadi tujuanku yang paling berharga sekali."

Gambar foto diambil disini

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Redha itu sikap utama Insan

2010-01-04T12:16:00.004+08:00

Tiga perkara yang wajib bagi seseorang mukmin dalam semua keadaan ini ialah:

(a) Melakukan segala perintah Allah;
(b) Menjauhkan diri dari segala yang haram;
(c) Redha dengan hukum-hukum atau ketentuan Allah.

Seseorang mukmin hendaklah jangan tidak ada tiga perkara ini. Oleh itu si mukmin hendaklah memikirkan perkara ini, bercakap kepada dirinya tentang perkara ini dan anggotanya melakukan perkara-perkara ini
– Sheikh Abdul Qadir Al-Jilani (Pembukaan kepada yang Ghaib - Syarahan Pertama Halaman 17)

Menurut Sheikh Abdul Qadir Al-Jilani selain ketaatan kepada Allah di dalam hal yang disuruh dan dilarang, redha dengan hukum-hukum atau ketentuan Allah adalah merupakan kunci paling utama menuju kebahagian yang hakiki.

Sebahagian tanda orang yang redha itu ialah ia sentiasa bersikap tenang dan sabar di dalam semua keadaan, tidak merungut apabila ditimpa kesusahan, tidak menceritakan kesusahan yang dihadapi oleh nya kepada orang lain kerana ia sentiasa bersangka baik kepada Allah yang mengetahui hikmah segala sesuatu yang berlaku.

"Boleh jadi kamu membenci sesuatu, padahal ia amat baik bagimu, dan boleh jadi pula kamu menyukai sesuatu, padahal ia amat buruk bagimu ; Allah mengetahui sedang kamu tidak mengetahui.." [al-Baqarah:216]

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Five Mysteries of the Universe

2010-01-01T00:04:00.003+08:00

Even today, there are scientific phenomena that defy explanation. If history is anything to go by, resolving these anomalies could lead to a great leap forward, so what are the greatest mysteries, and what scientific revolutions might they bring?

1. The Missing Universe

Everything in the universe is either mass or energy, but there's not enough of either. Scientists think 96% of the cosmos is missing. They have come up with names for the missing stuff - "dark energy" and "dark matter" - but that doesn't really tell us anything about them. And it's not as if they're not important: dark energy is continually creating new swaths of space and time, while dark matter appears to be holding all the galaxies together. No wonder cosmologists are searching for clues to their whereabouts.

2. Life

I know you think you're more than a sack of molecules, but why? Next time you see a tree, ask yourself why that is alive when your wooden dining table is not. The phenomenon we call life is something that biologists have almost given up trying to define - instead they're investigating ways to make different combinations of molecules come alive. Bizarrely, the best hope is similar in chemical terms to laundry detergent.

3. Death

Here's the flip side: in biology, things eventually die, but there's no good explanation for it. There are hints that switching genes on and off controls ageing, but if our theory is right, those switches shouldn't have survived natural selection. Then there's the argument that an accumulation of faults does us in. However, there are plenty of whales and turtles who seem to age ridiculously slowly - if at all. Of course, if we can work out why, that could be great news for future humans (if not for the planet).

4. Sex

Charles Darwin might have fathered 10 children, but he couldn't understand why almost everything in biology uses sexual reproduction rather than asexual cloning - sex is a highly inefficient way to reproduce. We still don't know the answer. The suggestion that sex's gene shuffling makes us more able to deal with changing environments seems plausible, but the evidence is scarce. At the moment, sex only seems to exist to give males some role in life.

5. Free Will

If you want to keep your sanity, look away now. Neuroscientists are almost convinced that free will is an illusion. Their experiments show that our brains allow us to think we are controlling our bodies, but our movements begin before we make a conscious decision to move. Some researchers have already been approached to testify in court that the defendant is not to blame for anything they did. A scary legal future awaits.

By Michael Brooks / Source: The Guardian

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

MA’RIFATULLAH - MENGENAL ALLAH LEWAT AKAL

2009-12-30T00:20:00.002+08:00

Suatu hari Anda membuka mata Anda dan menemukan diri Anda sendiri di tengah-tengah beragam kenikmatan yang berlimpah… Renungkanlah tentang segala sesuatu yang Allah karuniakan kepada Anda. Di setiap bagian terkecil dari alam semesta ini, di situlah Allah menyadarkan kita akan keberadaan-Nya. Film ini mengajak Anda memikirkan secara mendalam tentang jagat raya dan makhluk hidup, dan memahami bagaimana semua hal tersebut telah diciptakan secara sempurna, tanpa cela. Dengan memperlihatkan beberapa dari tanda-tanda kebesaran Allah yang tak terhitung jumlahnya di alam, film ini bertujuan mengarahkan Anda berpikir tentang kekuasaan dan pengetahuan Allah atas segala sesuatu.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Submit before the will of Allah

2009-12-29T08:00:00.002+08:00

If you are destined for good fortune you will be blessed; if afflictions have been ordained, no matter where you hide they will seek you out. Submit therefore before the will of God; be grateful in well-being and endure adversity with fortitude that His light may radiate within your being.

- Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani , Futhul Ghaib

Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not -
Surat Al-Baqarah 216

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Thankfullness

2009-12-24T17:41:00.012+08:00

Allah Swt says in the Holy Quran :

If you are thankful, I will surely give you more; but if you are ungrateful, My punishment is terrible indeed. (14:7)

This is reinforced by the traditional report, transmitted on the authority of 'Ata' (may Allah be well pleased with him), who said: "I entered the presence of 'A'isha (may Allah be well pleased with her), and said: 'Tell us about the most amazing experience you ever had in the company of Allah's Messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace).'

She wept at first, but then she said: 'Was there anything at all about him that was not a marvelous wonder? He came to me one night, and snuggled up beside me in my bed until his skin was touching my skin. But then he said: 'O daughter of Abu Bakr, let me go, so that I may devote myself to the worship of my Lord.'

"She said: ' So I told him: "I love your nearness, but I prefer to respect your dearest wish." I therefore allowed him to take his leave of me. So he got up, found a skin container full of water, and performed his ritual ablution. Then he stood up, and started to perform the night prayer. He wept as he did so, until his tears were streaming down onto his chest. Then he performed ruku', and shed more tears. Then he performed sujud, and again he wept. Then he raised his head, and wept still more. He went on like this until Bilal (may Allah be well pleased with him) arrived on the scene, and so he told him about the fajr prayer.

"'I then said: "O Messenger of Allah, what causes you to weep, when Allah has forgiven you your earlier and later sins?" To this he replied:

"Should I not be a thankful servant? Why should I not do it, since Allah has sent down to me the words of revelation:
Surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day, and the ship that runs upon the sea with that which is of use to human beings, and the water which Allah sends down from the sky, thereby reviving the earth after its death, and dispersing all kinds of beasts therein, and the distribution of the winds, and the clouds set in orderly array between heaven and earth-surely there are signs for people who can understand. (2:164) "
Let us be more thankfull to Allah for all nikmah and blessing He granted us since our coming to the world to these days.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Tahajjud Rabiatul Adawaiyah

2009-12-23T13:20:00.000+08:00

Rabiatul Adawiyah seorang sufi wanita yang sangat terkenal pernah bermimpi menerima suruhan supaya ia tetap mengerjakan solat Tahajjud meskipun ia sedang sakit.

Beliau menjelaskan bahawa ketika ia sakit itu ia tidak dapat sembahyang Tahajjud sebagaimana kebiasannya sebelumnya. Maka, untuk menggantikan amalan tersebut dia membaca al-Quran pada waktu siang kerana ia tahu bahawa membaca al-Quran sama pahalanya dengan berjaga malam dalam ibadat.

"Namun, setelah aku kembali sihat aku terus melakukan kebiasaan membaca al-Quran itu. Lalu pada suatu malam aku bermimpi berada di sebuah padang yang luas yang dipenuhi tumbuhan yang menghijau. Di tengah-tengah padang luas itu ada sebuah istana yang sa-ngat cantik. Maka aku pun pergi bersiar-siar mengelilingi taman yang indah itu. Ketika itulah aku terpandang seekor burung sedang diburu oleh seorang kanak-kanak perempuan. Aku asyik menyaksikan kecantikan anak itu dan burung yang diburunya. Aku tidak tahu mengapa ia melakukan demikian rupa.

Akhirnya aku berkata kepada anak itu: "Mengapa engkau hendak menangkap burung yang cantik itu. Sesungguhnya aku belum pernah melihat burung secantik itu. Bukankah lebih baik ia dibiarkan lepas terbang sesuka hatinya di taman ini?" Lalu anak itu berhenti mengejar burung itu. Sebaliknya ia datang ke arahku dan membawa aku pergi berkeliling di taman yang indah itu hingga kami tiba-tiba sudah berada di pintu istana yang besar itu. Anak itu mengetuk pintu istana sambil meminta dibukakan pintu, maka pintu itu terbuka dengan sendirinya. Dari dalam istana terpancar cahaya yang terang benderang. Kemudian anak itu mempersilakan aku masuk ke dalam istana. Alangkah cantiknya istana itu dari dalam, lebih cantik daripada dipandang dari luar.”

"Aku dibawa berjalan-jalan mengelilingi istana itu. Di bahagian dalamnya kami berjumpa dengan beberapa pelayan yang sangat cantik wajahnya sedang membawa bejana-bejana yang berisi wangi-wangian. Anak itu bertanya: "Hendak ke mana kamu semua, wahai para pelayan?" Mereka menjawab: "Kami hendak pergi berjumpa dengan orang yang mati syahid kerana terbunuh di lautan."

"Setelah diam sebentar anak itu bertanya lagi:

"Apakah kamu tidak mahu memberi wangian itu sedikit kepada orang yang ada bersamaku ini."

Mereka menjawab: "la sudah pernah mempunyai wangian tapi ia telah membuangnya."

Kemudian anak itu menghadap ke arah aku, lalu mengucapkan kata-kata yang indah. Setelah ia selesai mengucapkannya ia pun terus menghilang. Aku pun terbangun dari tidur.

Mimpi itu begitu mengesankan di hati beliau, kerana setiap kali ia menceritakannya ia akan menangis terisak-isak. Sejak peristiwa itu beliau tidak pernah lagi meninggalkan solat Tahajjud walaupun ketika sedang sakit sehinggalah beliau meninggal dunia.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

A story of Rabiatul Adawiyah

2009-12-22T12:44:00.003+08:00

Below is a story of Rabiatul Adawiyah who one day sent Hasan al Basri three things—a piece of wax, a needle, and a hair.

“Be like wax,” she said. “Illumine the world, and yourself burn.

Be like a needle, always be working naked. When you have done these two things, a thousand years will be for you as a hair.”

“Do you desire for us to get married?” Hasan asked Rabiatul Adawiyah.

“The tie of marriage applies to those who have being,” she replied. “Here being has disappeared, for I have become naughted to self and exist only through Him. I belong wholly to Him. I live in the shadow of His control. You must ask my hand of Him, not of me.”

“How did you find this secret, Rabiatul Adawiyah ” Hasan asked.

“I lost all ‘found’ things in Him,” She answered.

“How do you know Him?” Hasan enquired.

“You know the ‘how’; I know the ‘howless’,” Rabiatul Adawiyah said

Note to readers - During our journey to find our trueself, once we have reach certain level-meaning of the words uttered by Rabiatul Adawiyah would become clear to us - until then it will remain a mystery to be discovered, understood and hopefully experience.

Hassan al Basri was trying to ask Rabiatul Adawiyah about the secret. What he got is only an indirect answer from her. It is a secret that she wanted him to discover himself!

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Hakikat mati sebelum mati

2009-12-18T16:37:00.011+08:00

Seorang saudagar telah sekian lama memelihara seekor burung di dalam sebuah sangkar di rumahnya.

Satu hari ia mengambil keputusan untuk berangkat ke India, tanah asal burung itu, lalu menanyakan burung itu kalau-kalau ia ingin meminta sebarang buah tangan dari sana. Burung itu meminta kebebasannya, tetapi ditolak oleh saudagar. Karena itu ia minta saudagar itu pergi ke hutan di India dan memberitahu tentang keadaannya yang dalam hal dirinya yang di kurung itu kepada burung-burung lain yang masih bebas.

Saudagar itu pun melaksanakan pesan tersebut, dan sebaik sahaja ia mengucapkan pesan tersebut, seekor burung yang serupa dengan burung yang dipeliharanya jatuh dari sebuah pohon, tak sadarkan diri ke tanah.
Si saudagar berpendapat bahawa tentulah ia saudara kepada burung peliharaannya, dan ia pun merasa sedih kerana telah menyebabkan kematiannya.

Ketika ia pulang, burung peliharaannya bertanya apakah tuannya ada membawa sebarang khabar gembira dari India.

“Tidak,” jawab saudagar itu, “Aku membawa khabar buruk. Salah seekor saudaramu tak sedar diri lalu jatuh dekat kakiku ketika aku khabarkan tentang keadaanmu di sini.”

Sebaik sahaja kata-kata itu diucapkan, burung peliharaan saudagar itu pun tak sedarkan diri dan jatuh di dalam sangkar.

“Khabar kematian saudaramu telah menyebabkan kematianmu juga,” fikir saudagar itu. Dengan sedih diambilnya burung itu dari sangkarnya, lalu diletakkannya di tepi jendela.

Segera saja burung itu hidup kembali lalu terbang ke pohon berdekatan.
“Kini aku ingin memberi tahu kepada engkau,” kata Si Burung, “bahawa apa yang kau kira sebagai khabar buruk itu, ternyata merupakan khabar baik bagiku yang dipesan oleh saudaraku melalui kamu. Untuk mendapat kebebasan di dunia ini maka hendaklah kamu mematikan diri kamu, nescaya dengan itu engkau akan beroleh kebebasan.”

Dan burung itupun terbang, bebas merdeka akhirnya.

Cerita ini sesuai dengan hadis Nabi Muhammad s.a.w "Muutu Qobla An-Tamutu", artinya :"Matilah kamu sebelum Kamu Mati".

Kisah di atas memberi iktibar dan petunjuk penting kepada mereka yang ingin mencari identiti dan jati diri yang sebenar. Maka sebab itu lah barang kali Jalaluddin Rumi menukilkan sebagai tinggalan kepada mereka terkemudian untuk direnung-renungkan. Dr Wayne Dyer seorang pakar motivasi barat sendiri telah menyebut kisah ini di dalam sessi ceramah beliau. Lihat di sini

Adaptasi dari sebuah cerita yang diolah oleh Jalaluddin Rumi. Sumber foto diambil disini

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

No attachement - true love

2009-12-17T00:02:00.001+08:00

When we do our duty to others, to the human race, we must do it without attachment, without selfishness, in the proper way, expecting no reward.

Act that pours forth like this is an act of true love.

(M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen)

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

A broken Love

2009-12-16T00:17:00.000+08:00

If we pursue God, worship Him, ask Him for favors, for property, money, possessions, a baby, great titles, a kingdom, or even for heaven, if we love God with interested motives, with selfish love, that love will break down. It is a broken love...
(M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen)

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Hakikat ikhtiar..

2009-12-15T00:04:00.003+08:00

Diambil daripada hadis dan Firman Allah Taala (Hadis Qudsi), mathumnya:

"Aku berasa hairan terhadap hamba-Ku yang sering teringat kepada hartanya. Mereka lupa bahawa Akulah yang memberikan rezeki, tidak berasa syukur berhadap nikmat-Ku, tangannya kedekut untuk bersedekah kepada fakir miskin. Dia menyangka bahawa harta yang diusahakannya itu adalah melalui ikhtiarnya sendiri. Dialah hamba-Ku yang paling bodoh yang tidak berilmu walaupun sezarah."

Bagaimanakah kita dapat melepaskan diri dari menjadi hamba Allah yang paling bodoh itu? Hanya dengan ilmu yang benar sahaja yang kita mampu memahaminya.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Hakikat Orang Arif Billah

2009-12-14T08:12:00.002+08:00

Di dalam sebuah buku kecil "KasyafulAsrar – Pembukaan Segala Rahsia" ada menyebutkan ta’arif orang yang dinamakan orang Arif (Arif bermaksud mengetahui).

Mengikut penulis buku tersebut As-Syeikh Mohd Salleh bin Abdullah mengkabau (Q.S) orang Arif ialah:

a. Orang yang mengenal dirinya.
b. Orang yang mengenal Tuhannya.
c. Orang yang mengenal segala sifat Tuhannya.
d. Orang yang mengenal afaal ( Perbuatan) Tuhannya.
e. Orang yang mengenal Asma' (Nama-nama) Tuhannya.
f. Orang yang mengenal zahir dan batin.
g. Orang yang mengenal baik dan jahat.
h. Sama sahaja suka dan duka.
i. Tidak berasa gembira apabila dipuji.
j. Tidak berasa sedih apabila dikeji.

Persoalan yang selalu timbul kepada saya ialah mengapakah mereka dapat mencapai darjat akhlak begitu rupa. “Sama sahaja bagi mereka suka dan duka, tidak gembira apabila dipuji dan tidak merasa sedih bila dikeji”.

Tentulah ada sesuatu “rahsia yang sangat besar dan istimewa” dalam ilmu yang mereka miliki hasil dari pengetahuan mendalam tentang diri mereka sendiri dan sifat, Afaal dan Asma' Tuhannya.

Mereka orang Arif sebenarnya telah mencapai darjat "Insan kamil" disisi Tuhan yang telah redha sepenuhnya kepada semua hal dan keadaan mereka di dunia ini. Mereka hidup tanpa rungutan dan keluh kesah. Bagi mereka setiap kejadian sama ada baik atau jahat adalah sebenarnya baik belaka.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Knowing self

2009-12-13T00:20:00.002+08:00

Knowing others is wisdom
Knowing the self is enlightenment.
Mastering others requires force
Mastering the self requires strength.
- Tao Te Ching

"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself,
you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not
know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and
lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you
will be imperiled in every single battle."
- Sun Tzu

"He who knows others is learned, but the wise one is one who knows
himself. Learning without wisdom is of no use." - A sufi

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Kata Hikmah

2009-12-12T00:09:00.001+08:00

Sumber foto diambil di sini:

Kebaikan itu semuanya terhimpun dalam empat (4) perkara:

Percakapan, diam, pandangan dan gerak. Tiap-tiap percakapan yang tidak disertai dengan mengingati Allah adalah sia-sia, tiap-tiap diam yang tidak disertai dengan memikirkan kebersaran Allah adalah leka, tiap-tiap pandangan yang tidak disertai dengan pengambilan iktibar adalah lalai, dan tiap-tiap gerak yang tidak disertai dengan perhambaan adalah kosong. Semoga Allah merahmati hamba yang telah menjadikan percakapannya sebagai zikir, diamnya sebagai tafakkur, pandangannya sebagai iktibar, dan geraknya sebagai perhambaaan, dan daripada lisan serta tangannya manusia mendapat kesejahteraan - Saidina Ali Karramallahu Wajhah

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Woods for his fire

2009-12-11T00:07:00.002+08:00

If you don’t have the Beloved why aren’t you looking for Him?
If you have the Beloved why aren’t you rejoicing?
If the Friend is truly your friend. Why not stay with Him?
If the rebec does not wail,Why not teach it how to sing?
If someone bars you from the truth, Why not fight him and his brother as well? You sit quietly and say to yourself, “Something strange is going on.”The only thing strange is that your best friend is a stranger.

You are the Sun of the world -Why is your heart so black?Why do you fall back on your drab and stagnant ways?Don’t stay melted like gold in a furnace -Become a piece of jewelry!

The treasure of Unity is found by those who look within.Why not join your spirit to the onewho sits inside your heart?

Did Majnun ever love two Laylas? Why seek more than one face and one cheek?

There is such a glorious moonhiding in the shadows of your being.Why not make it rise with the power of a midnight prayer? You have danced in the tavern for ages, Love’s wine never slips from your hand,Yet with each new sipyour soul is ravished like never before.

The wine I drink is the fire of love and God Himself pours it into my mouth! What use is your life If your bones are not used as wood for His fire? I’ll leave you with that.I could go on,I could fill pages with these elegant verses But this is a tale for the heart and soul, not the lips.
...

Rumi– Version by Jonathan StarFrom “Rumi - In the Arms of the Beloved”Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York 1997

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Life is an illusions?

2009-12-10T00:13:00.008+08:00

Let us suppose, then, that we are dreaming, and that all these particulars—namely, the opening of the eyes, the motion of the head, the forth-putting of the hands—are merely illusions; and even that we really possess neither an entire body nor hands such as we see.

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

The only love that is beneficial is selfless love.

2009-12-09T00:49:00.002+08:00

The only love that is beneficial is selfless love.
Whatever we raise or touch – cattle, goats, donkeys, horses, dogs, cats, rats, house, property, possessions, learning, titles, fame, political status, or even wisdom – whatever it is we love, if our love is directed toward something and remains fixed on that thing, it is a love which can be lost, which can die...

(M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen)

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Abraham-Hicks: Feel Good Now, It's Important!

2009-12-08T00:17:00.004+08:00

'If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different, so that you can feel good...' :)

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark