Oh Beloved

Oh Beloved,
take me.
Liberate my soul,
Fill me with your love and
release me from the two worlds.

If I set my heart on anything but You,
let fire burn me form inside.

Oh Beloved,
take away what I want.
Take away what I do.
Take away what I need.
Take away everything
that takes me from you.

Rumi
Hush - Don't Say Anything To God.

The One Thing You Must Do

There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there’s nothing to worry about, but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in your life.

It’s as if a king has sent you to some country to do a task, and you perform a hundred other services, but not the one he sent you to do. So human beings come to this world to do particular work. That work is the purpose, and each is specific to the person. If you don’t do it, it’s as though a priceless Indian sword were used to slice rotten meat. It’s a golden bowl being used to cook turnips, when one filing from the bowl could buy a hundred suitable pots. It’s like a knife of the finest tempering nailed into a wall to hang things on.

You say, “But look, I’m using it. It’s not lying idle.” Do you hear how ridiculous that sounds? For a penny an iron nail could be bought. You say, “But I spend my energies on lofty projects. I study philosophy and jurisprudence, logic, astronomy, and medicine.” But consider why you do those things. They are all branches of yourself and your impressiveness.

Remember the deep root of your being, the presence of your lord. Give yourself to the one who already owns your breath and your moments. If you don’t, you’ll be like the man who takes a ceremonial dagger and hammers it into a post for a peg to hold his dipper gourd. You’ll be wasting valuable keenness and forgetting your dignity and purpose.

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Chapter Twenty-Two : Lord of The Heart : The One Thing You Must Do, Rumi : The Book Of Love : Poems of Ecstasy and Longing by Coleman Barks

the Essential of Love

When I'm with you,
We stay up all night.
When you're not here,
I can't get to sleep.
Praise GOD for these two insomnias!
And the difference between them.

"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere,
they are in each other all along".

-Rumi-

<3

مع الهجرة

THE WATER said to the dirty one, “Come here”.
The dirty one said, ” I am too ashamed”.
The water replied, ” How will your shame be washed away without me?”


RUMI

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Happy new year, everyone. Ada orang kata bid'ah sambut tahun baru, nak buat amalan sempena tahun baru pun bid'ah tau.hehehe.

Orang tu gediks kot. wakakaka.

tazkiyah semula niat. tazyidkan ilmu. istaqim dalam amal. jom jom!

Awareness comes as an Unexpected Visitor

This Being human is a guesthouse,
Every morning a new arrival,
A joy,
A depression,
A meanness,
Some momentary awareness becomes,
And comes as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all,
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
Who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture,
Still,
Teach each guest honourably,
He maybe clearing you out
For some new delight.

The dark thought,
The shame,
The malice,
Meet them at the door laughing,
Invite them in,
Be grateful,
For whoever comes,
Because each has been sent,
As a guide from beyond.

RUMI