Hello Rumi Tuesday! A dream…

Hello Rumi Tuesday! A dream… March 8, 2016

Hello Rumi Tuesday

 

 

“This place is a dream.
Only a sleeper considers it real.
Then death comes like dawn,
and you wake up laughing
at what you thought
was your grief.”

 
 

~ Jalal ad-din Rumi
-Translated by Coleman Barks.

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I want to share a few paragraphs from the book, Music of the Soul, by Shaykh Muhammad al-Jamal ar-Rafa’i ash-Shadhuli, who is the guide for the Shadhuliyya Sudi order and the guide for The University of Spiritual Healing & Sufism.

This is from the chapter, “Who Are You?”

“When you were born the first time, I do not mean in this world, but in pre-eternity, God said, ‘I made the human being from one soul, and then I put in the numbers.’ He put the numbers on the outside, because on the inside there are no numbers. He also said, ‘I made the sides (places), but really there are no sides, and I have many people, but really there is only One – Me.’

“You are Adam, the same Adam as when God made the first picture. You are the beginning, but then the picture goes. God put all the qualities in Adam, but where is Adam? There is no Adam, only God. Yet, what He put in Adam, He also put in you.

“You see many pictures, but really there is only one picture. It is like a mirror. You look and you are face to face, but whose reflection is this? The qualities are the same.

“For example, Allah has put the quality of hearing in your ear, but for what? Only to hear His voice. Return this quality to Him.

“He has given the human being all His ninety-nine qualities, and He speaks through all of them. When He wants any of these qualities, He takes them.

“One of the qualities is al-Hayy, the Living. This is a special quality from which all the other qualities flow. When the order comes to die, where do you go? There is no place. He wants you to return to your origin in the first world, pre-eternity. He wants you to return to Him.”

 
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