07 Friday Sep 2012
Posted in Light, Love, Our Spiritual Heritage, Zikr/Salawat
Peace, one and all…
I first heard this beautiful zikr about 8 or 9 years ago. It is very beautiful. Enjoy, and may all that you do this day be blessed.
Ask olsun,
Abdur Rahman
26 Tuesday Jun 2012
Peace, one and all…
‘Reason cannot bear the light of that Face.
For its sake, go find a different pair of eyes’
Mahmud Shabistari, The Garden of Mystery, 102
15 Sunday Jan 2012
Peace, one and all…
The sunbeam fell upon the wall;
the wall received a borrowed splendour.
Why set your heart on a piece of turf,
O simple one? Seek out the Source
which shines forever.
Masnavi 2.708-709
04 Wednesday Jan 2012
Peace, one and all…
‘Indeed, we offered the Trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, and they declined to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook to] bear it. Indeed, he was unjust and ignorant’ (Quran 33:72)
19 Monday Dec 2011
Peace, one and all…
The sensuous eye is a horse,
and the light of God is the rider:
without the rider the horse is useless.
The light of God rides the sensuous eye,
and then the soul yearns for God.
How can a riderless horse
recognise the signs of the road?
God’s light enhances the senses:
this is the meaning of ‘light upon light’
(a reference to Quran 24:35)
Masnavi 2.1290-1293
25 Friday Nov 2011
Peace, one and all…
There isn’t a particle in creation
that doesn’t carry Your light.
Yesterday I was asking others for a sign of You,
today there isn’t a sign that isn’t of You.
(Jami)
