Knowing

No one can understand this

Association

Explaining the meaning of ‘Association’ RUMI said:..

“A rain drop from the sky:

if it is caught by clean hands, 

is pure enough for drinking.

If it falls in the gutter,

its value drops so much that it can’t be used even for washing your feet.

If it falls on a hot surface,

it will evaporate... 

If it falls on a lotus leaf,

 it shines like a pearl 

and finally,

if it falls on an oyster,

 it becomes a pearl...

the drop is the same, 

but its existence and worth

 depends on whom

 it is associated with.”

Always be associated with people who are good at heart.

You will experience your own inner transformation...

In my soul

"In 

my soul

there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church

where I kneel. 

Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist.

Is there not a region of love where the sovereignty 

illumined nothing,

where ecstasy gets poured into itself

and becomes

lost,

where the wing is fully alive

but has no mind or body?

In 

my soul

there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque,

a church

that dissolve, that

dissolve in

God."

~ Rabia al-Adawiyyah of Basri

HU....

Who Am I?

I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Moslem.

(Rumi)

I Have Learned So Much

I can no longer call myself A christian, a hindu, a muslim, a buddhist, a jew.

I can no longer call myself a man, a woman, an angel, even pure Soul.

(Hafiz)

Nowhere else

God was nowhere else to be found.

(Rumi)

Tiada tuhan

Aku yang akan pulang 

Bacalah!

Bacalah!

Bacalah dengan Nama Tuhan ku....

اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ - 96:1

semoga pendengaran ku tajam..

penglihatan ku tersingkap..

sehingga aku tersedar....

"Bukankah Aku ini Tuhanmu?"

أَلَسْتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ ۖ - 7:172

Lalu aku bersaksi..

Tiada Tuhan

لَا إِلٰهَ

melainkan Allah

إِلَّا ٱلله

Muhammad itu pesuruh Allah

مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ ٱلله

dan kembalilah kepada Tuhanmu dengan redha lagi diredhai

ارْجِعِي إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرْضِيَّةً - 89:28

Becoming.. dissolving.. no thing...

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.

There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.

(RUMI)

Nothing but your real face

Who are YOU really?

Who do you think it is?

Nowhere else

  I tried to find God on the Christian Cross,
but He was not there;

I went to Muslims’ Kaaba in Mecca,
but God was not there either.

I went to the old Jewish Synagogue
and the Hindu Temple of Idols,

but I couldn’t find a trace of God anywhere.

I questioned the scholars and philosophers,
but God was way beyond their understanding!

I then looked deep into my heart and
it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him

God was nowhere else to be found.

(RUMI)

Who do you think it is?

The Journeys

Deathless - Know Who You Are

Searching

Lost

Alas, don't tell me the Christians are lost.
Don't tell me the Jews are lost.
Don't tell me the infidels are lost.
Alas, my brother, you are lost,
That is why everyone else seems lost.

- RUMI 

 

Hu.....

 

This task

Sesat bercabang, tenggelam di rimbunan

Sebatang pohon

Sekurang-kurangnya lima cabang dahan

Darinya tiga-puluh ranting menyelerak

Tumbuhlah ratusan, ribuan daun merimbun

Sekirannya mampu

Maka berputiklah bunga-bungaan

Menerbitkan impian hasil

Manis dan ranum

Di sinilah

Sesat di antara ranting-ranting berselerak

Tenggelam dalam rimbunan daun

Bermimpikan buah ranum di siang hari

Kembalilah

Susuri rimbunan daun

Dari selerakan ranting

Kembalilah
Ke dahan yang lima

Yang bertahan kepada enam keimanan

Yang menghidupkan tiga-puluh ranting

Agar dapat berpaut semula

kepada batangnya pokok

Lalu tunduk dengan keinsafan

Ke bawah

Menyembah lapisan bumi

Itu yang nyata

Pada pandangan mata

Begitu jua

Ibaratnya yang tidak ternyata

Pada pandangan mata

Apabila menembusi lapisan nyata

Apa lagi yang ada?

Akar tunjang? Akar Banir? Akar selirat yang melata?

Yang mengambil faedah

Dari air dan nutrisi bumi indah?

Kemana jua perjalanan ini

Melihat diri

Di dalam cermin

Yang ini

Melihat yang itu

Dan begitulah berbolak-balik

Seolah-olah tiada kesudahannya

Ibarat sepohon pokok

Turning round in circles

Pilgrims!

why are you turning round in circles,

what are you looking for?

The Beloved is here, why search in the desert?

If you look deep in your heart,

you will find Him within yourself.

You have made the pilgrimage

and trod the path to Mecca many times.

You rave about the holy place

and say you've visited God's garden

but where is your bunch of flowers?

You tell stories about diving deep into the ocean

but where is your pearl?

There is some merit in the suffering you have endured

but what a pity you have not discovered

the Mecca that's inside.

(Translation by Azima Melita Kolin & Maryam Mafi, "Rumi: Hidden Music", HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001)

What is this in between?

Unspecified desire

Stop asking without, listen within

Death, Dream and Living

Deathless - Know Who You Are

Not from books..

No room..