Two Wings

  سورة النبأ  Sura An-Naba (78) Verse 8

وَخَلَقْنَاكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا

And We have created you in pairs
(male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.)

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God turns you from one feeling to another

and teaches by means of opposites,

so that you will have two wings to fly,

not one.

Mathnawi II: 1552; 1554

Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski

"Rumi: Daylight"

Threshold Books, 1994

The Glow of Humble Longing

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Everyone who delights in some act of devotion
can't bear to miss it,
even for a short while.
That disappointment and grief
are as a hundred prayers:
what is ritual prayer compared
with the glow of humble longing?


Mathnawi II: 2769-2770
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight", Threshold Books, 1994

Today in Konya

(Shrine of Jalaluddin Rumi, Konya, Turkey)

Today...

A couple of hours ago.....

HERE..., in Konya

When I die...

When I die
when my coffin
is being taken out
you must never think
i am missing this world

don't shed any tears
don't lament or
feel sorry
i'm not falling
into a monster's abyss

when you see
my corpse is being carried
don't cry for my leaving
i'm not leaving
i'm arriving at eternal love

when you leave me
in the grave
don't say goodbye
remember a grave is
only a curtain
for the paradise behind

you'll only see me
descending into a grave
now watch me rise
how can there be an end
when the sun sets or
the moon goes down

it looks like the end
it seems like a sunset
but in reality it is a dawn
when the grave locks you up
that is when your soul is freed

have you ever seen
a seed fallen to earth
not rise with a new life
why should you doubt the rise
of a seed named human

have you ever seen
a bucket lowered into a well
coming back empty
why lament for a soul
when it can come back
like Joseph from the well

when for the last time
you close your mouth
your words and soul
will belong to the world of
no place no time

~RUMI, ghazal number 911, 
translated by Nader Khalili.

(Mausoleum of Rumi, Konya, Turkey)

The One Who Keeps Her Heart Awake

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There is many a one whose eye is awake
but whose heart is asleep.
What, in truth, should be seen
by the eyes of creatures of water and clay?
The one who keeps her heart awake,
though the eyes of her head may sleep,
her heart will open a hundred eyes.


Mathnawi lII:1222-1223
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996

The One I Feed

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A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt.

He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart.
One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one." 

The grandson asked him, "Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?"

The grandfather answered: "The one I feed."

~ Native American Story ~

Preoccupied With the Business of The World

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The lion of destiny is dragging our souls,
preoccupied with the business of the world,
into the jungles of death.
People fear poverty,
plunged as they are up to their necks in briny water.
If they feared the Creator of poverty,
treasures would reveal themselves.
Through fear of affliction,
they sink into the very essence of affliction:
in their quest for life in the world,
they have lost it.

Mathnawi III:2204-2207
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996

 

Confucius's Confusion

A student asked Confucious: "What surprises you most about mankind?"

Confucius answered: "They lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health. By thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live neither for the present nor the future and they live as if they will never die, and they die as if they had never lived ..."

Amazing Numbers In Qur'an

Very interesting findings by Dr. Tariq Al Swaidan... might grasp your attention...

Dr.Tariq Al Swaidan discovered some verses in the Holy Qur'an that mention one thing is equal to another, i.e. men are equal to women. Although this makes sense grammatically, the astonishing fact is that the number of times the word man appears in theHoly Qur'an is 24 and number of times the word woman appears is also 24, therefore not only is this phrase correct in the grammatical sense but also true mathematically, 

Upon further analysis of various verses, he discovered that this is consistent throughout the whole Holy Qur'an where it says one thing is like another. See below for astonishing result of  the words mentioned number of times in Arabic Holy Qur'an

• Dunia (one name for life) 115... Aakhirat (one name for the life after this world) 115
• Malaika (Angels) 88 ... Shayteen (Satan) 88
• Life 145 ...... Death 145
• Benefit 50 .... Corrupt 50
• People 50 .... Messengers 50
• Eblees (king of devils) 11.....  Seek refuge from Eblees 11
• Museebah (calamity) 75 ..... Thanks! 75
• Spending (Sadaqah) 73 .... Satisfaction 73
• People who are mislead 17.....Dead people 17 
• Muslimeen 41 ....Jihad 41 
• Gold 8 ...Easy life 8 
• Magic 60 ....Fitnah (dissuasion, misleading)! 60
• Zakat (Taxes Muslims pay to the poor) 32...Barakah (blessings of wealth) 32
• Mind 49 ....Noor 49
• Tongue 25 ....Sermon 25
• Desire 8 .... Fear 8
• Speaking publicly 18 ...Publicizing 18
• Hardship114. ... Patience114
• Muhammed 4 ....Sharee'ah (Muhammed's teaching s) 4

Wanna check it out to prove it yourself?

And amazingly enough have a look how many times the following words appear:

• Salat 5 , Month 12, Day 365,
• Sea 32 , Land 13
• Sea + land = 32 + 13 = 45
• Sea = 32/45*100 = 71.11111111%
• Land =13/45*100 = 28.88888889%
• Sea + land 100.00%

Modern science has only recently proven that the water covers 71.111%of the earth, while the land covers28.889% .

Is this a coincidence? Question is that, "Who taught Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) all this?"