Seeking Freedom

Replica of the Face of the Statue of Liberty

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"as if Lady Liberty is lying down, sinking into the grass."

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing,

there is a field.  I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,

the world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other"

doesn’t make any sense.

From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks

Freedom is found in that field, where knowledge of right and wrong ends.

In the miraj of the Prophet muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) he came to the Lote Tree, 

where knowledge ended :

It comes from the Qur'an chapter 53, An-Najm (The Star), verses 10-18 and alludes to Muhammad's night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and then through Heaven.

"The Lote Tree of the farthest boundary," as it is called, is believed to be the farthest anyone can travel in Heaven in their approach to Allah; beyond this none can pass. The following are the Quranic verses from which this term is derived (Quran 53:10–18):

10 So did Allah convey the inspiration to His Servant what He (meant) to convey.
11 The heart in no way falsified that which he saw.
12 Will ye then dispute with him concerning what he saw?
13 For indeed he saw him at a second descent,
14 Near the Lote-tree beyond which none may pass:
15 Near it is the Garden of Abode.
16 Behold, the Lote-tree was shrouded (in mystery unspeakable!)
17 (His) sight never swerved, nor did it go wrong!
18 For truly did he see, of the Signs of his Lord, the Greatest!

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lote_tree

It would never occur to us that there is something more fulfilling than words. 

This is why we are always thinking, planning and rejoicing to convey meaning through words. 

Playing with thoughts.

But Beyond Words/Thoughts/Actions what is there? 

For an idea repeated becomes a thought which itself becomes an action which ends up in the form of a shape in this world (it is how skyscrapers are built, the idea is born in the head of a designer and lo! a year later you see a building on the exact spot where there was nothing. Magic, isn't it?!).

It is exactly same thing with our thoughts, they exist. 

And our mind, yes, is full of them. 

Beyond thoughts, of what is right and wrong, 

once we have abandoned, them...

...but Impossible!

and what about my conditioning, my truth, my religion i was born into, I KNOW it is TRUE

will the mind say, no rather scream back. It will continue, i have to gauge, to measure, to JUDGE what is right and wrong!

For my safety... and then allow this, whatever it is, to enter.  

Yeah, safety of ego. Safety of a world, into which you wish me to be my own prisoner. 

and when the moment of death will come, you will exclaim like Pharaoh did :

[...]and when the drowning overtook the Pharaoh, he exclaimed: "I have come to believe that there is no deity save Him in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of the Muslims (those who have submitted themselves wholly to Him). "  


Now? – (You surrender now) when before this you always rebelled and were of those engaged in causing disorder and corruption?

(holy quran, 10:90-91)

Until and unless, we have NOT surrendered to the Spirit WITHIN,
we are NOT safe.

As for conceptualisation/self-labelisation of surrendering to The Truth has it ever helped you?

La ilaha illa Allah - There is no god but Allah

No. Because it is meant to be LIVED, and not lived according to worldly standards of our mind!
but according to the standard of the Spirit of God...

For it is NOT a concept, why are you trying to conceptualise it? over and over again?

Unity is NOT a concept

It is to be LIVED, to be PROVEN.

Allahu Al Hayy - Allah The Living

While lower feelings such as superiority or envy are meant to separate - there is the other, and there is i, ok and it is dead OBVIOUS i am better than him, no kidding,  I AM BETTER than him, i SEE it.  And here the mind chatter goes on with all its proof based on my own standards. But never on the standard of the spirit, the standard of Truth, against which my deeds will be measured...
why wait when it is too late, when deeds will be measured against the standard of truth?
why not making headway, by making Truth our standard of action now?

But this is not meant to be done by our actual servile mind. it is dust to do that. It is to be done BY the Grace of God... where to find it? ; ) that is the next and right question...

Till then, in response to our lower attitude to divide, it is sure that,

Kindness and Love are meant to Unite.

and that is the only Truth for us to embody...
where  the phrase "other" makes no more sense,
for from the state of separateness, we enter the one of unity,
where there is only The One.

and it is not rosy words. 

One can only Love, True love, because one knows that we are all One. 

Remember ? we are all from the same spirit of God breathed into us, there are no TWO different spirits but ONE. 

Like a cell has all of the DNA in it, 

so MY spirit like yours has the same material, praises of God within.

It is JUST that our soul, which is a part of that spirit sent on "lower realms" has forgotten that its origin is that very spirit, Glory of God. So...it is veiled from this Glory of God, this very Glory which solve all of our problems, this very Glory to which every elements bents, to which sea split out of Love when it sees It, to which winds take a new turn in their affairs, or to which mountains split asunder, because they ALL saw a Face of Glory that YOU as soul saw not because you are in darkness (yes that very darkness spoken of by all religions) are veiled from your OWN Glory within that you are bearing while being UNAWARE of that treasure within.

When Moses (peace be upon him) split the sea, he had faith, he knew it, and was unveiled from the Existence of the Glory of God within. He had faith.

While mountains and trees and seas split, bend and crumble out of Love while seeing that very Shining Power of That Presence (Ash Shahid), of that Love( Al Wadud)

you are the guy who is unaware of it,
this is why you see in people's eyes dullness and such transfixed eyes as if they just go deeper in their loss of light.

and till we do not REMEMBER that who we are, whom we belong to - not with a false mind, 

but with the true Mind - then, only then, the soul KNOWS it is the spirit and it gains this Peace, 

yes this very abode of Peace, As Salam (The Peace).

and the traits of your face soften, and your eyes regain their joy and your face illuminates.

Hence the words of Peace given to those who will enter the Heaven :

Peace! - a word (of salutation) from a Lord Most Merciful! 
(holy quran 36:38)

 

So, unless one turns towards meditation in the search of the stillness, emptiness inside.
As any Master did-yes as the prophet did, prior to his prophethood...in the cave of Hira -
we will always be the slave of our mind. And the soul will never know its origin, being veiled to the Glory Within, it will never know Peace nor Joy, it yearns for.

Once the soul is aligned with the Light of the Spirit, The Rope of Allah - The Grace of Allah,
and keep ascending till it may rest in that Garden of Peace
then, there it is said the word is too full to be spoken of.

As the poet, uncovered it, that emptiness is full,
so full, a new kind of fullness, that words fall short.For it is no more their kingdom nor abode.

Indeed, in a world of concepts, words are kings.
When, we are in another world, then who is the King of kings?
This other world, HAS TO BE BEYOND the one we know, live in, build in these very buildings,
it HAS to be a world BEYOND the world of the mind,

it is the world of the Spirit.

It exists, doors are still open for us to enter,
it is the Kingdom of God

where the soul used to be,
where the Lord asks all of us : Am I not Your Lord? and we all answered "Yes, you are!".

It was in that world, that we have to return to

Willingly or unwillingly.
Face brightened in joy, or face covered by gloom.

The first one is the mark of God on people face, the soul having known who it really is, who we really are,
It is the Victory spoken of in the Chapter of "Victory" (Holy Quran - Surah Fatah).



The second group of people are those who will realise that they lost the light inside, given to them in Trust,
the Amanat (The Trust).


Do your soul, right now, is not feeling a sense , an acute sense of emergency?


The Feel of Lying on the grass ... Lying in the Grace?

Ascending in Love

https://youtu.be/T94PHkuydcw Ascending in Love or falling in love?

What did the moon say to the night?
what did the night whisper to the moon?

these are all imaginary dialogue
secret dialogue
into which it seems no one can pry into it

but who made those dialogues ?
the heart of those observers or lovers
who longed to hear for the echo of the love they are feeling within, in the first place.

but once the echo is heard
all sanity is gone
they think it is the echo which was their initial object of love

while it has only been an awaited answer
when they were diving within.

Never an element has ever been alive
no more alive than a statue molded by the hand of a man.

Yet, as much as it would be idolatry to give life to a statue
this very statue is so much alive
when it is not a statue.

"
-Do not try to bend the spoon.
It is impossible
Instead realise the Truth."
-What Truth?
-There is no spoon."

And the spoon bent.

(Movie Matrix)

Because the statue or the spoon ; ) have never existed of their own accord, in the first place,
as an independent entity from Our Real Self Within.

they are the call of the heart echoed
and never love has been parted in the first place
to be found;

but it has for ever existed within
and just yearning of it to be revealed, brought Itself to be expressed.

For if there had been no one inquiring,
how would It have revealed Itself?
It would have just remained in silence within Itself
may be waiting for someone to ask,
to answer.

A silent call to draw nearer to It, to the Source and not to remain stuck in the manifestation of It.
That call that no one answers, because one keeps getting amnesic, once one has asked for Love,
and keep falling in love for the signs pointing at the Source.

Yes, a call in front of a full audience
who hears not.
because it has fallen in love with the echo answering their question,
but having forgotten The One behind it.

As soon as the echo has expressed itself, people forget that they are the ones
whose very heart has given birth to that expression.

Question and answer
Longing and melting in
are both face of the same coin - Love.

If there were no question, to melt into love
there would be no answer/way to reveal its depth.

By prying, looking into the matter,
we chisel with our own sight, the marble till it shows a face.

but we do not worship images, that we carved
we do not fall in love with the piece of art

the master,
like Pygmalion who fell in love with the statue of Venus
or, Narcissus with his own reflected image in the lake in the Metamorphoses of Ovid

are those who have given birth to their longing
in the form of a piece of art,

and have in the process forgotten,
that all of this has just been an answer to their inner inquiry
into themselves
into the one and unique beauty within
the Spirit

taking thus their own revealed beauty into the world of creation and manifestation
for the Source of Love
forgetting, it was only the birth of an answer to their desire to know themselves,
to witness an inner aspect of ours according to our level of understanding, inquiry

but never to be mistaken as the source of Love.

an answer created From (The Source of) Love, For Love (to witness it), In Love, With Love
and Returning back to Love too.

Clinging to it, is falling in love with the manifestation/illusion,
because it will go away
and one will die of sorrow like narcissus did.

Things are bound to One Master Only, and that is The Source of

Love,
Al Wadud.

Like Clouds slaves to their Creator

it is never the creator who is slave to them,
the creator never runs after them
the creator out of His Love, creates them,
they bearing witness to Him/The Source.


Allah is
The most beautiful Creator of creators (holy quran, 21.17)

Tabaraka allahu ahsanul-Khaliqeen

For Grace, Freedom lies in this creation of His, hence the

Beauty

while other creators are slaves of their own creation.
clinging to them out of forgetfulness, wishing to possess them, bind them, enslave them,
thereby enslaving themselves to illusions.


Have you ever associated feelings of oppression to nature,
while being there?
no, its creation is made with such Ahsan, Beauty/Gracefulness

Generously giving which makes anyone, ANYONE feel soothened by

nature...

or feel happy in the presence of a new born baby,
whatever your religion be.

For, when born, we are born on our true nature/religion
only parents corrupt it
(saying of the prophet muhammad - peace be upon him)


Had one not inquired into this Beauty out of Love,
the answer would have not swept onto the shore like waves do.

Bringing with them the answer from the depth of the Ocean.

Is  the shore not often refered to "consciousness"
by the psychologues?
or by the dream interpretors?

it is because from the depth of Seas, of the unconscious part of ourselves
comes the answer on the shores of our consciousness.

Besides, is it not said,

Say: "If the ocean were ink (wherewith to write out) the words  
of my Lord, sooner would the ocean be exhausted than would the  
words of my Lord, even if we added another ocean like it, for its aid."
(holy quran, 18.109)


What is the difference between the Ocean and the waves, when the waves are from It?

They have just been called out of the Ocean to let 

the answer express itself according to the questioner's level of inquiry;

drawn like a magnet out of the sea, out of Love to answer the 

call of the questioner or the lover.


The night merges in the day
and the day merges into the night

they take turns into each other
as if to know each other better from within

though it be still the same sky
yet, it has been centuries that each of them are merging into the others
as if time was not enough to know the other side

often, it is said when two people marry,
the woman become like the husband, she takes in, his color
in behavior or manner
and the husband takes in the color of his counterpart

so better choose your partner to elevate you
and not draw you downwards.

but night or day sky
they are always in ascension
the whole universe is,

and for mankind?


Does mankind not wish to go beyond shores of his consciousness
or depth of his own seas,
yes go beyond?

as it is said,
to take the color of Allah?


Allah says :

صِبْغَةَ اللَّهِ ۖ وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ مِنَ اللَّهِ صِبْغَةً ۖ وَنَحْنُ لَهُ عَابِدُونَ

The “sibghah” of Allah, and who can be better than Allah in “sibghah”? And we are His worshippers 
(holy quran 2:138 )

Sibgha means to color or to dye.

Kun faya Kun

(Be and it is)

Ya Nizamuddin Auliya, Ya Nimzamuddin sal ka Qadam badha le, Hadon ko mita le, Aaja khaalipan mein, Pi ka ghar tera. Tere bin khaali aaja khaalipan mein. Rangreza Rangreza Rangreza Rangreza Kun! fa ya Kun!, Kun! fa ya Kun! Kun! fa ya Kun!, Kun! fa ya Kun! Kun! fa ya Kun!, Kun! fa ya Kun! Kun! fa ya Kun!, Kun! fa ya Kun! Jab kahin pe kuch nahi bhi nahi tha Woi tha - Wohi tha - Wohi tha. Woh jo mujh me samaya, woh jo tujh me samaya Maula wahi wahi Maaya. Kun! fa ya Kun, Kun fa ya Kun! Sadaq Allahul Aliyyul Azim Rangreza rang mera tann mera mann, Le le rangai chaahe tann chaahe mann. Sajra savera mere tann barse Kajra andhera teri jaan ki lau... Qatra mila jo tere darbar se O Maulaa... Maulaa... Kun fa ya Kun, Kun fa ya Kun! Jab kahin pe kuch nahi bhi nahi tha Wohi tha - Wohi tha - Wohi tha. Kun fa ya Kun, Kun fa ya Kun! Sadaq Allahu al Aliyyul Azim Sadaqa Rasool ul Nabi ul Karim Sallallahu Alayhi wa Sallam Ho mujh pe karam Sarkar tera, Araz tujhe kar de mujhe mujhse hi riha, Ab mujhko bhi ho deedar mera, Kar de mujhe mujh se hi riha, mujh se hi riha Mann ke mere yeh bharam, Kacche mere yeh karam, Leke chele hain karhaan Main to jaanu hi na. Tu hai mujh mein samaaya Kahaan leke mujhe aaya. Main hoon tujh mein samaaya Tere peeche chala aaya, Tere hi main ik saaya. Tune Mujhko banaya Main to jag ko na bhaya, Tune gale se lagaya, Haq tu Hi Tai Khudaya Sach tu hai hai Khudaya Kun Fa Ya Kun...! Kun Fa Ya Kun...! Jab kahin pe kuch nahi bhi nahi tha Woi tha - Wohi tha - Wohi tha. Jab kahin pe kuch nahi bhi nahi tha Woi tha - Wohi tha - Wohi tha. Kun Fa Ya Kun....! Kun fa ya Kun, Kun fa ya Kun! Sadaq Allahul Aliyyul Azim Sadaqa Rasool ul Nabi ul Karim Sallallahu Alayhi wa Sallam Sallallahu Alayhi wa Sallam

O God's friend, Nizamuddin! O Nizamuddin, the friend of poor. Advance your blessed feet. Appear! Making the boundaries disappear, may you fill this void, the abode of your Beloved. Its empty without you, come fill this void. O Dyer, O Dyer! We dye in Your color. Be, and it is! Be, and it is! Be, and it is! And It is! Be, and it is! And It is! Be, and it is! And It is! When there was nothing nowhere, He was the One, only One. He is the one Who is in my soul, He is the one in your soul, Dear Lord is the one that is the Mystery (all around). Be, and it is! Be, and it is! Allah the Sublime, the Magnificent says the truth. Color my heart and my mind with Your color, the Color Divine! In exchange, take all that is mine. Morning showers its blessings (when) I adore You, and it purifies dark night soul of mine. My spirit's nourishment comes from Your sanctuary, O Master, O Beloved... Be, and it is! Be, and it is! When there was nothing nowhere, He was the One, only One. Kun fa ya Kun, Kun fa ya Kun! Allah the Sublime, the Magnificent says the truth His Messenger, the Generous Prophet says the truth The blessings and peace of Allah upon him. It would be your generosity upon me, my Master, I pray to you, please free me from the bonds of the self, Grant me visitation to my True Face - Free me from the bonds of the self, freedom from the self. With vanities of my mind, burdens of my misdeeds, Carrying, where I am going? I have no idea! You live within me, and now, where have You brought me? I live in You, I have only followed You, I am but Your shadow. You created me, I did not fit within the world, But You embraced me, Only You are the Truth. Only You are the Real. (You Command) Be, and it is! Be, and it is! Be, and it is! Be, and it is! When there was nothing nowhere, He was the One, only One. When there was nothing nowhere, He was the One, only One. Verily, when You will anything Your Command only is, "Be," and it is! (Please intend noble aspirations and direction for me). Allah the Sublime, the Magnificent says the truth His Messenger, the Generous Prophet says the truth The blessings and peace of Allah upon him. Benediction of grace and peace upon him.

Full lyrics of the song and its approximate English translation, "Kun Faaya Kun", sound track of the Hindi film Rockstar (India, 2011). Lyrics: Irshad Kamil, Music: A. R. Rahman, Vocals: A. R. Rahman, Mohit Chauhan, Javel Ali

source : http://www.mysticsaint.info/2011/10/kun-fayakun-full-meaning-rock-star.html

True love

I am amazed at the meaning of hindi love songs.

Remember, all that is out is in, and all that is in is revealed outside (of us).

Usually, people just stop at the outside, and yes, should probably yearn for such love story,
while thinking why it happens not to them but only in the movies.
i even read one comment which said, "ah yeah, but that is a movie you can do whatever you want"
yeah, but the writer is a human being too, and it is the produce of its mind to be able to turn its character as he wants.

why not for a change we do same with our life?

i don't think that people do not wish or seek for love,
there is all kind of love people seek for.

but the best of it, is true love. The Eternal one.
and it DOES surely have as much heavenly feeling than any such love story movie,
actually, more than ever, for it is Heavenly Love.

It is just good, to start seeing them as an invitation to turn inwards FIRST,
then, once we did it, we reflect it outside too, into our own life.

Exalted is He who created all pairs - from what the earth grows and from themselves and from that which they do not know.

(holy quran, surah yasseen, ayah 36)

This i always believed it. 
but zooming in ourself first is the key, till one does not love our self truly, one cannot never display that love outside. 

it is only because a person is oblivious to that inner joy, inner love, that it will be oblivious to see Love passing by. Because Love just gives love, it does not compel, it will never compel you to love. 
so what you will see as a casual moment that passed, actually, it was surely a moment of Love that you missed, only because you were blind to it. 

La ilaha illa Allah
There is no god but Allah

Allah is Al Wadud, The Love
As Samad, The Eternal 
Ash Shahid, The Witness, The Ever-present, 

 we cannot give lie to Him being not so, 
if we see not love, it is because we need to turn inward to find it, 
it is our shortcoming that we see outward, not His lack of Presence.



We are the soul, in a body , 
on its journey, literally speaking, to ascend to unite with the Spirit - Ruh of Allah - which is the Breath of God
and in that very Breathe, is The Life, Al Hayy
that is what is about the Union talked of here and there. 

Knowing that we are ALL bearing this Breathe of God inside of us :

"When I have fashioned him [Adam] (in due proportion) and breathed into him a Ruh from Me, fall ye down in obediance unto him." (holy quran 15:29)

And [mention] when your Lord took from the children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants and made them testify of themselves, [saying to them], "Am I not your Lord?" They said, "Yes, we have testified." [This] - lest you should say on the day of Resurrection, "Indeed, we were of this unaware."

 (holy quran, The Heights, verse 172)

Who is unaware that it has The Breathe, The Command of His Lord into Him?

The children of Adam, Adam is this creation of Allah made of mud, that body.
that body is given life, and has into it, this very trust of God to which we acknowledge the authority given to it by Allah  IN US.
As soul we bow down to the Ruh of Allah in us. and thus we TESTIFY of OURSELVES.

We do NOT testify OUT of our selves.

For when i had enough of seeking truth and did not understand what was real surrender, what is true submission.

i decided to read again the story of Abraham, who has FOUND his Lord, when he was seeking Him.

He looked at the sun, at the moon, at the stars, yes : ) even at the statues created by men's hands that they worshiped, and concluded for each of them, they are NOT lasting. they canNOT be The Lord
when he rejected all of this, all of this was OUT of his self, 

suddenly he said : 

But when it[the sun] set, he said: "O my people! I am indeed free from all that you join as partners in worship with Allah. Verily, I have turned my face towards Him Who has created the heavens and the earth Hanifan (Islamic Monotheism, i.e. worshipping none but Allah Alone) and I am not of the Al Mushrikeen (those who worship others besides Allah)."
Then, i wondered, he found Allah. but where? 
he looked outside all the way, and found nothing worthy of being worshipped. worthy of True Love : 

When the night covered him over with darkness he saw a star. He said: "This is my lord." But when it set, he said: "I like not that those who set."




 how can one be dependent upon a power that itself needs its rest, set or is not there when one needs it? 

even less an object to which we GIVE power such as status, that is such a waste. 
to give importance to that which we have created.
YET, it is what we do, in everyday life, we are self-important, by extension all that we touch, we think is important, it is ever-lasting, if it breaks or know some misfortune we cry, while it was in the first place created by us. 

that is silly. 

Allah has breathe His OWN Breathe in us, in ibn Adam (=sons of Adam) as a soul in body, we are completely unaware that we have even to start that journey back to our origin, The Spirit. 
For it is at that VERY point, that WE HAD TESTIFIED to its presence in us, to this trust.

and Once we rememeber this, hence the other name of quran (Az-zikr = The Reminder), 
it reminds of what? of something that we have FORGOTTEN. and where is this Knowledge, this certainty, that Allah gave to Abraham (peace be upon him)? 

Thus did We show Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and the earth that he be one of those who have Faith and certainty.
http://www.islamawareness.net/Prophets/ibrahim.html

So WHERE DID ABRAHAM TURN  once he turned outside and rejected everything and found Allah?
INSIDE.

There HAS to be this REMEMBERING coming from INSIDE of us , AS truly as it has been PUT , BREATHED into us. who can dare say it is false?

for us, to bow, testify, as we did :


 "When I have fashioned him [Adam] (in due proportion) and breathed into him a Ruh from Me, fall ye down in obediance unto him." (holy quran 15:29)

And [mention] when your Lord took from the children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants and made them testify of themselves, [saying to them], "Am I not your Lord?" They said, "Yes, we have testified." [This] - lest you should say on the day of Resurrection, "Indeed, we were of this unaware."

and those who have testified after having remembered that which they have forgotten, with certainty,

then all the heavens and the earth are theirs :


this is the vicegerancy that we have been trusted with.
and the meek shall inherit the world.


That is about the soul remembering its origin, in the spirit. that is the real yes real true love story, for that which is Eternal and never leaves.

Hindi Lyrics Translation

Mere Haath Mein

Here is the song 'Mere Haath Mein' from movie 'Fanaa'.

mere haath mein tera haath ho

When my hand is in yours,

saari jannatein mere saath ho

all of paradise is mine.

mere haath mein tera haath ho

When my hand is in yours,

saari jannatein mere saath ho

all of paradise is mine.

tu jo paas ho phir kya yeh jahaan

When you're with me, what use have I for the world?

tere pyaar mein ho jaayuun fanaa

May your love annihilate me.

mere haath mein tera haath ho

When my hand is in yours,

saari jannatein mere saath ho

all of paradise is mine.

mere haath mein tera haath ho

When my hand is in yours,

saari jannatein mere saath ho

all of paradise is mine.

tu jo paas ho phir kya yeh jahaan

When you're with me, what use have I for the world?

tere pyaar mein ho jaayuun fanaa

May your love annihilate me!

mere haath mein tera haath ho

When my hand is in yours,

saari jannatein mere saath ho

all of paradise is mine.

tere dil mein meri saanson ko panaah miljaaye

May my sighs find a shelter in your heart;

tere ishq mein meri jaan fanaa ho jaaye

may your love annihilate my life.

jitne paas hai khushbu saans ke

As close as fragrance is to breath,

jitne paas honthon ke sargam

as close as melody is to lips,

jaise saath hai karwat yaad ke

as close as the twists and turns of thought,

jaise saath baahon ke sangam

as close as arms entwined,

jitne paas paas khwaabon ke nazar

as close to me as my dreams,

utne paas tu rahana hamsafar

stay that close to me, my life's companion.

tu jo paas ho phir kya yeh jahaan

When you're with me, what use have I for the world?

tere pyaar mein ho jaayuun fanaa

May your love annihilate me.

mere haath mein tera haath ho

When my hand is in yours,

saari jannatein mere saath ho

all of paradise is mine.

rone de aaj hamko tu aankhein sujaane de

Let me cry today; let my eyes swell.

baahon mein le le aur khud ko bhig jaane de

Take me in your arms and let me drench you with my tears.

hai jo sine mein qaid dariya voh chuut jaayega

The river imprisoned in my breast will break free,

hai itna dard ke tera daaman bhig jaayega

and the pain is so great, it will wash down to your feet.

jitne paas paas dharkan ke hai raaz

As close as my secrets are to my heart,

jitne paas buundon ke baadal

as close as raindrops are to the clouds,

jaise saath saath chanda ke hai raat

as close as the moon is to the night,

jitne paas nazaron ke kaajal

as close as kohl is to the eyes,

jitne paas paas saagar ke lahar

as close as the waves are to the sea,

utne paas tu rahana hamsafar

stay that close to me, my life's companion.

tu jo paas ho phir kya yeh jahaan

When you're with me, what use have I for the world?

tere pyaar mein ho jaayuun fanaa

May your love annihilate me.

mere haath mein tera haath ho

When my hand is in yours,

saari jannatein mere saath ho

all of paradise is mine.

adhuuri saans thi

My breath was incomplete;

dharkan adhuuri thi

my heartbeat was incomplete;

adhuure ham

I was incomplete.

magar ab chaand puura hai falak pe

But now the moon is full in the sky,

aur ab puure hain ham

and we are made whole.

http://www.hindilyrics.net/translation-Fanaa/Mere-Haath-Mein.html

; )
i wonder if you still thought that love story was outside first ?

or inside and then it transpired outside?

For that which is inside has to transpire outside at one point or another, 

because the spirit is in everyone. we are literally bathing in it, but are unware of it.

for sure, if we set running for love outside without having fixed it inside, it shall always be like running after a mirage in a desert.while our soul mate is always in front of our eyes for us to join it.

Origin

I often used to hear that in science or in other domain,  people are in the search of their Origin.

; ) i used to wonder, what's the point? for, i am here. i exist. i am in the present.
the origin is the past, what do i have to do with the past?

but now, so many years later, i have understood, when i used to say i am not only a body but also a soul,
i was partly right. for i am a soul which has been "separated"of its origin. The Spirit.The Light.
and once my soul "goes back" to its Origin, then it has liberated itself, freed itself from the shackles of slavery of this life.

though this sentence bears meaning for me, it may hardly be helpful to others.
because i will always be detailing about my own quest, in this blog. what i saw from my own eyes.
these are the moments that i have been, consciously or unconsciously, choosing to experience during my journey here.

but others may not need it, for they have certainly made other choices. but it feels good to just write it at some point. who knows? it may eventually be beneficial in some ways or others.

Yes, ; ) that is the thing, those seeking for their origin were right. and me saying what's the point of it, by then, i was right, for i knew not about the spirit.

but now, it is very important to know that one has to return to his origin, to KNOW where one comes from.
for it is that certainty of knowledge which will save us. NO ONE can nor will take care of us, or take our own individual responsibility of our soul.

Each soul is responsible of itself. But for sure, helpers and guardians come to everyone's path to help us find the way back.

that is now a certainty, we HAVE to find our Origin :

Inna lillahi wa inna elaihi rajeoun
To Allah we belong, and to Him is our Return.

returning to Him in joy because we are willingly returning to our origin
is not the same than returning to Him with a gloomy face, having been unconscious of the treasure within,
which IS indeed within, the treasure of the Spirit.

because is it not said in the holy quran,
"Come willingly or unwillingly" ?

but for both kinds of return, return is ordained.

but then, we choose the state in which we return.
with Faces lit with the light of joy of this inner discovery -- an EXPERIENCED discovery by a soul, which is then called "well-pleased returning to its Lord"

or

with a darkened face, a face expressing the gloom of a self-reproaching soul,which has missed its joy to know its Lord :

like the famous saying "Know yourself , and you will know your Lord".

My Immortal

The Spirit has always been there to heal the soul from its self-inflicted wounds and illusions.