“The essence of God is love and the Sufi Path is the Path of
Love. Love is to see what is good and beautiful in everything. It is to learn
from everything, to see the gifts of God and the generosity of God in
everything. It is to be thankful for all of God’s bounties. This is the first
step on the road to the love of God. This is just a seed of love. In time, the
seed will grow and become a tree and bear fruit. Then, whoever tastes of that
fruit will know what real love is. It will be different for those who have tasted
to tell of it to those who have not. When you find love, you will find
yourself. When you have the knowledge of love, you will then feel peace in your
heart. Stop searching here and there, the Jewels are inside you. This, my
friends, is the holy meaning of love.” ~ Sufi Teachings of Rumi”
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013
an amazing anecdote
There is a story which Sayyidina Jalaluddin
Rumi tells of an ant that’s creeping across the carpet in a mosque, and the ant
complains to God saying: “what is this, these bumps, and strange colours, and
patterns, this must have been created just as a meaningless obstacle course,
what a futile thing to have made.” But of course the carpet maker, looking at
it from above can see the patterns and the purpose of it, and can see that the
whole thing is perfect and is good. And Allah is often like that. We often
can’t make sense of the misfortunes because we are two dimensional, we are at
ground level, we can’t see what it all means, but the khalifa of Allah
subhanahu wa’tala knows even if he can’t always see that this is a
manifestation of Allah’s will which is always good and always perfect and always
beautiful. ~ Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad