Tariq
ut-Tahqiq (The Path of
Realization)
On Oneness of Allah
Most High
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Part II
Although IT
has no position or
place, IT resides within
every broken shattered heart! [1]
Exists not physically inside any
heart,
instead ITs grace makes nest within. Wherever you see a shattered
heart,
whenever misery and exhaustion you may behold, word-less do hear about
IT from it (the broken heart), the unearthing of ITs secrets by it
(broken
heart). [2]
Seek ITs remembrance (Dhikr)
from silent tongues, find
cognizance within the broken hearts.
How many more times without
ITs
company toiling towards
Ka'bah [3], enter the ruins (of hearts) in
search of IT. If you seek IT with
serious intent and effort, what is a ruin? what is a mosque?
Seeking the path is for you,
guiding the way is for IT,
exertion of efforts from you granting the benevolence from IT.
Whatsoever you might glance upon
from the dust of this earth
up to the vast outer-space, nothing is outside the realm of ITs
knowledge. That
which outside the circling ceiling of the skies, collectively all known
by IT
and all existence of any kind (without a single exception) are as such.
ITs
knowledge
encompasses all things, penetrates within (the insides of) everything
as well.
IT is the defender against all
afflictions, IT is the Knower
of all secrets and hidden things.
Whatsoever you may think
within your Self, already all have
been known to IT (long before time)!
End.
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Their eyes have witnessed the
most horrific ailment turning
their parents into clacking bones sheathed with dying infected skin. If
I
collected the entire pain and misery of my life and lived a thousand
more
years of
afflictions, I would have never felt what these AIDS Orphans have
witnessed in
their few youngling years.
Looking upon these
photographs, I wonder what their eyes are
staring at? The future, which is their parents’ past? The bondage of
racism and
ignorance? Sanctions and starvation at the hands of their obese
besiegers?
None! Their eyes have no choice! Thus beyond any doubt, know that their
runny
eyes are staring upon That Beloved of the cosmos the Master and
Defender
of all
broken hearts, the First and the Final: The Primordial & The
Everlasting.
Sufi lovers specially the
Muslims, if you seek Allah the
Lord and Creator of skies, follow the eyes of these AIDS Orphans and at
the end
of their gaze you shall find the object of every love, the Sultan of
all
shattered hearts.
And once you find The Majesty,
tell me and tell me now what
sorry excuses you may fabricate for The Highness about the neglect of
these children?
"I was far away
though I could go for fancy across-the-planet vacations!" or "I had no
power
no
funds though the boy only asked for hugs!"...
Lovers follow these children’s
gazes, close your eyes and
push eye-less upon the path of love because the horrors of this path
only
the
mightiest & the bravest may endure. Wear the goggles of their
eyes that
you may
see and see for true the path that has no beginning and ITs infinite
end The
Beloved: The verdant effulgent beauty of all eyes,
the
blossom of our smiles and the pearl of our sobs.
[1] Mankind
seeks their God in temples,
books, lofty
projects, outer-space, within their own heart… But the secret has been
uncovered
by Sanāî : The most sure bet to find the Beloved is within the
broken
hearts.
That is why charity and spending time and resources on the poor has
been
encouraged by all religions. Because within the shuffles of miserables’
pain
you do find The Excellency. But you shall not find the Beloved in
Essence or in
ITs
true existence, you will find the attribute of ITs Grace (Sifat)
within the
hearts of the miserable. You are next to a poor fallen human being, you
are next
to the Almighty Creator of heavens and earth. You feed or aid or caress
this
poor person, you touched upon the outer surface of the grace of Allah.
[2] Do you want to learn about the
Creator? Do you wish
personally The Almighty to teach you? Then go to the broken hearts.
Live with
them, eat with them, sleep with them, die with them and you shall hear
the
word-less teachings of your Lord talking about ITself. You want to
find
cognizance (Orf)? You want to be an Aref or Alem (scholar with true
knowledge)?
Then learn from the word-less miserable shattered hearts.
Do you think making Dhikr or
remembering Allah all night long
brought you ITs
Grace? Think again, be with these AIDS Orphans and you
shall
hear IT make ITs own Zikr to ITself and you are entangled in between.
[3] Muslims go to Hajj (pilgrimage)
much hardship
endured in desert and much money spent on travel. But as Araqi asked in
one of
his poems: “What have you done outside the Haram (the walls of Ka'bah
the black
cube covered with curtains) to permit you to come within?” If you go to
Makkah
and run around Ka'bah a thousand times, you have accomplished exactly
nothing if
Allah was not with you! If you want the permission to enter the Ka'bah
then
enter the broken ruined hearts of the fallen and not only you have
permission
to go inside the Haram but Allah is with you step after step. Hakim
(Wise Sage) Sanāî
asks what is the difference between a ruined rubble and a mosque if
there is no
Allah with you? Both building are the same without Allah.
Background:
AIDS Orphans from Namibia. Click on their pictures...
©
2003-2002, Dara O. Shayda
