One of a Muslim’s greatest hope and reward of spiritual accomplishment is to see the Prophet’s (AS) face in their best dreams, when they have arrived at a station of purity.
This message is to those with a heart.
Don’t rob of us of this hope and emotion by forcing your politics on our spiritual experiences.
Don’t shatter and intrude upon our dreams with your violent messages.
To those without a heart, I leave you to your fate.
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LOOKING FOR YOUR FACE
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it
Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for
Today I have found you
and those who laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I did
I am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you
with a hundred eyes
My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now behold
I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine
Your fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow
My soul is screaming in ecstasy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with you
Your efflugence
has lit a fire in my heart
for me
the earth and sky
My arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer
Maulana Rumi (ks)
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If the face of Muhammad is reflected on a wall, the heart of the wall will become alive.
The wall, through his blessed reflection, will have such great happiness that even the wall will be rescued from hypocrisy.
It was a shame for the wall to have two faces while the pious and the pure had only one.
Maulana Rumi (ks)
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Salam,
Beautiful, beautiful, subhanAllah
JazakAllah khair for sharing!
Bismillahir Rahmaanir Rahiim
Asalaamu alaikum.
MashaAllah. This is something that didn’t even occur to me. i appreciate you bringing this perspective.
i doubt that those who are for the “event” care (having had it out with some of them today), but inshaAllah this might interest others.
Mashallah…that is, as is all of Maulana Rumi’s poetry, beautiful. When I had first read this poem years ago, I had felt that he was talking about Allah. But perhaps not. Regardless, it applies to both Allah’s light and our Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAWAWS). May the blessings of Jummah night and of Jummah fall on all of U. Fi amana Allah. Safiyyah
Jazak’Allah khair for sharing this enlightening poem… May we all Insya’Allah, be able to meet the Prophet (SAW) in our dreams one day.
Yasalam
as-Salaamu ‘alaykum all and sundry,
This post reminds me of a beautiful poem penned by the American Muslim poet Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore called “Light of the Shadowless One”. It can be read here:
http://ecstaticxchange.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/poem-light-of-the-shadowless-one
I am also reminded of a rendering of Mevlana Rumi’s poetry done by Coleman Barks which can be read here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight/message/2944
I have not been following this situation with Facebook and the drawing of Prophet, ‘alayhi afdali salaat was-salaam, very closely but I have been really happy to see more and more Muslims from all sides of our colorful spectrum take a much different approach than the standard letter-writing campaigns.
Alhamdulillah.