Sow Flowers

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

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

O' Beloved,
I thought You
were so distant from me,
hiding beyond a veil.
Now I see
it’s 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

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

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!

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:

"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