What is this precious love
and laughter
Budding in our hearts?
It is the glorious sound
Of a soul waking up!
—Hafiz (c. 1320–1389) [1]
https://cac.org/primordial-light-2018-09-26/
Sufism developed
and emphasized
the interior life
Poet Daniel Ladinsky
who,has been inspired
by Sufi poets Rumi
and Hafiz, writes that“their‘way’has always
existed, under many names,in many lands,associated w/ the mystical facet of every
spiritual
system”
religion, may be viewed
as a spectrum of light—
ranging from the fundamentalists to the mystics. Our place on this spectrum depends on our level of spiritual
Islam does
not see us
as sinful beings to be redeemed, but as neglectful & forgetful beings endowed with
the primordial light.
Forgetfulness is what we must constantly struggle against.
“‘Am I not your Lord?’ They said: ‘Yes, we bear witness’” (7:172). The memory of the covenant rests deep within our souls. This is why the remembrance of God is central in Islam. . . .
the reality of “I” is not separate from the Ultimate Reality.
https://cac.org/primordial-light-2018-09-26/
“Whoever knows himself knows his Lord.”
“The eyes with which we look back at God are the same eyes with which God looks at us”:
Ibn al Arabi, the 12th century Islamic mystic from Andalusia
When my Beloved appears,
With what eye do
I see Him?
With His eye, not with mine,
For none sees Him except Himself.
...In the remembrance of God,
the mirror of the heart is polished and is able to
reflect the light of God,
allowing “I”
to shine.
I am a hole in a
flute
flute
that the Christ’s
breath moves
through—
listen to this
music.
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