Sunday, November 28, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Islam Is
Islam is pure
Islam is beauty
Islam is hope
Islam is a gift
Islam is something to carry
Islam carries you
Islam is true
Islam is clean
Islam is cleaning
Islam is direction
Islam is orientation
Islam is a reboot for goodness
Islam is a prayer and a fast
Islam is a voyage and a charity
Islam is bearing witness that there is One God
Islam is honouring the Messenger of God, Muhammad peace be upon him
Islam is what Jesus preached
Islam is what Moses said to Pharaoh
Islam is what Abraham deduced from the heavens
Islam is what Noah rode with in the Ark
Islam is what Adam gave to his children, what Cain rejected
Islam is to believe and to honour believers
Islam is protection against evil and devils
Islam is a sword of light against the armies of darkness
Islam is the milk mother of humanity
Islam is the shepherd
Islam is the protector of Christianity and Judaism and all true faiths
Islam is the safety of certainty
Islam is the fertile field for holiness
Islam is for the meek ones, the poor ones
Islam is for the mighty ones, the rich ones
Islam binds humanity in meaning
The space of Islam is the space for healing and sanity
I love Islam
It gave me
Me
I love Islam
And I wear its honour on my face
And in my being
I wish for honour and safety for all my fellow human beings
My advice
Build your house on strong foundations
Islam is pure
Islam is beauty
Islam is hope
Islam is a gift
Islam is something to carry
Islam carries you
Islam is true
Islam is clean
Islam is cleaning
Islam is direction
Islam is orientation
Islam is a reboot for goodness
Islam is a prayer and a fast
Islam is a voyage and a charity
Islam is bearing witness that there is One God
Islam is honouring the Messenger of God, Muhammad peace be upon him
Islam is what Jesus preached
Islam is what Moses said to Pharaoh
Islam is what Abraham deduced from the heavens
Islam is what Noah rode with in the Ark
Islam is what Adam gave to his children, what Cain rejected
Islam is to believe and to honour believers
Islam is protection against evil and devils
Islam is a sword of light against the armies of darkness
Islam is the milk mother of humanity
Islam is the shepherd
Islam is the protector of Christianity and Judaism and all true faiths
Islam is the safety of certainty
Islam is the fertile field for holiness
Islam is for the meek ones, the poor ones
Islam is for the mighty ones, the rich ones
Islam binds humanity in meaning
The space of Islam is the space for healing and sanity
I love Islam
It gave me
Me
I love Islam
And I wear its honour on my face
And in my being
I wish for honour and safety for all my fellow human beings
My advice
Build your house on strong foundations
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Two Rakats
HusbunAllah RabunAllah
God is Sufficient for me, God is my Lord.
Now I know why Prophets laugh when
We cry and cry when we laugh.
All this pain we suffer through,
Of worry, of what tomorrow will bring,
Of how you will pay your debts,
Care for your loved ones, keep it together,
Disappears when you sit and repeat:
HusbunAllah RabunAllah
God is sufficient for me, God is my Lord.
Say it over and over again and connect yourself
With your light filled teacher.
You begin to smile
Prophet peace be upon him was
Known to be the smiling prophet.
You begin to laugh.
You began to laugh uncontrollably.
All your problems,
Indeed the word “problem” itself
Loses all meaning.
When you realize your Lord is your protector
The punch line of the joke of your pain
Is rendered and you just can’t stop laughing
It’s so ridiculous to worry
And you feel Shaykh Farhat is laughing, Mawlana is laughing, and Prophet is laughing
Divine is laughing
And the more you suffered
The more you laugh
Until you get to that point where laughing and crying become
One again
Where you don’t know if you’re laughing or crying or both
And you feel so happy and thankful
That you can praise your Lord,
And that he chose Islam
For you,
That he gave you the
Treasure that outweighs the two worlds:
Two rakats
And the words
HusbunAllah, RabunAllah.
HusbunAllah RabunAllah
God is Sufficient for me, God is my Lord.
Now I know why Prophets laugh when
We cry and cry when we laugh.
All this pain we suffer through,
Of worry, of what tomorrow will bring,
Of how you will pay your debts,
Care for your loved ones, keep it together,
Disappears when you sit and repeat:
HusbunAllah RabunAllah
God is sufficient for me, God is my Lord.
Say it over and over again and connect yourself
With your light filled teacher.
You begin to smile
Prophet peace be upon him was
Known to be the smiling prophet.
You begin to laugh.
You began to laugh uncontrollably.
All your problems,
Indeed the word “problem” itself
Loses all meaning.
When you realize your Lord is your protector
The punch line of the joke of your pain
Is rendered and you just can’t stop laughing
It’s so ridiculous to worry
And you feel Shaykh Farhat is laughing, Mawlana is laughing, and Prophet is laughing
Divine is laughing
And the more you suffered
The more you laugh
Until you get to that point where laughing and crying become
One again
Where you don’t know if you’re laughing or crying or both
And you feel so happy and thankful
That you can praise your Lord,
And that he chose Islam
For you,
That he gave you the
Treasure that outweighs the two worlds:
Two rakats
And the words
HusbunAllah, RabunAllah.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
I
Oh humanity do not take Muslims lightly
They are the friends that would burn for your salvation
Oh humanity do not take Islam lightly
It is the way that is keeping the memory of what came before and the vision of what will come after.
Oh humanity your inheritance is this gift. Don’t squander it for fool’s gold and false promises
Whispered by your enemy who has entered like a guest and who will leave like a thief
He will ruin you before he is done
So ancient a tricky one is he
Don’t rebuke, like a child who won’t sleep
Long past his bedtime call,
The door for you to know yourselves
And your Gracious Lord.
Your inheritance is Islam
Your gift is Islam
Your only protection is Islam
The wolf that is your shepherd now
Is trying to do everything he can
To keep the real shepherd away
He makes you to curse him
so the real one waits atop a hill not far
And watches the lambs eaten one by one
II
Oh Celtic people
Who took away your lineages
And your exalted genealogies?
Who told you what you knew was wrong
Who made you lose your minds one night
In bitter sadness and pain?
Who told you you had no Lord
And that you were just a speck,
A nothing less than nothing
Lingering in time and space?
I am here to tell you
That is not true
Your Lord is your treasure
And your Lords treasure is you
Break through oh living ones
While you still can
Your heart is an emerald mirror
Upon which shines a humming moon
Your breast contains the looking glass pools
That stare into eternity
You are the ancient kings and queens
That danced upon the moors at night
Who rode across the shining dales
To fight for truth and light
You are the mysterious magic
Of the maidens stare
You are clear, clean, brimming, subtle,
Delicate, perceiving light
The deeper you look within
The more beautiful you become
III
Revelation is
To show you who is your friend and who is your foe
What is wrong and what is right
It is the fertile soil for your
Becoming Human
For your entry into the Divine kingdom
To take your seat as your Lords Servants
Its time now you take what is yours
The Heavens have just moved
A change has rippled from the Unseen
The age of falsehood has breathed its last
Stand up! And take what’s yours.
I bear witness there is no god but God and Muhammad is His Messenger.
Oh humanity do not take Muslims lightly
They are the friends that would burn for your salvation
Oh humanity do not take Islam lightly
It is the way that is keeping the memory of what came before and the vision of what will come after.
Oh humanity your inheritance is this gift. Don’t squander it for fool’s gold and false promises
Whispered by your enemy who has entered like a guest and who will leave like a thief
He will ruin you before he is done
So ancient a tricky one is he
Don’t rebuke, like a child who won’t sleep
Long past his bedtime call,
The door for you to know yourselves
And your Gracious Lord.
Your inheritance is Islam
Your gift is Islam
Your only protection is Islam
The wolf that is your shepherd now
Is trying to do everything he can
To keep the real shepherd away
He makes you to curse him
so the real one waits atop a hill not far
And watches the lambs eaten one by one
II
Oh Celtic people
Who took away your lineages
And your exalted genealogies?
Who told you what you knew was wrong
Who made you lose your minds one night
In bitter sadness and pain?
Who told you you had no Lord
And that you were just a speck,
A nothing less than nothing
Lingering in time and space?
I am here to tell you
That is not true
Your Lord is your treasure
And your Lords treasure is you
Break through oh living ones
While you still can
Your heart is an emerald mirror
Upon which shines a humming moon
Your breast contains the looking glass pools
That stare into eternity
You are the ancient kings and queens
That danced upon the moors at night
Who rode across the shining dales
To fight for truth and light
You are the mysterious magic
Of the maidens stare
You are clear, clean, brimming, subtle,
Delicate, perceiving light
The deeper you look within
The more beautiful you become
III
Revelation is
To show you who is your friend and who is your foe
What is wrong and what is right
It is the fertile soil for your
Becoming Human
For your entry into the Divine kingdom
To take your seat as your Lords Servants
Its time now you take what is yours
The Heavens have just moved
A change has rippled from the Unseen
The age of falsehood has breathed its last
Stand up! And take what’s yours.
I bear witness there is no god but God and Muhammad is His Messenger.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Contact with God
Contact with God
Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch
This extract is from a 1944 group meeting in Paris.
G: I have already answered this question when someone asked the same thing. I said: if you do not have an ideal, if you do not believe in God, then your father, your mother, your teacher can serve for you as an ideal.
Q: I have an ideal, I have always been a Catholic. But I no longer see Jesus Christ in the same way.
G: In the beginning Catholicism was very good, but not latterly. They searched for midday at two o'clock; they diluted everything. In the beginning it was superior to the Orthodox religion and to all others.
Q: I cannot recapture the faith of my childhood.
G: That is not necessary. You have lost that possibility. You are no longer a child, you are big now. You should have logic and not search automatically. To have direct contact with God is impossible. Millions and millions of nonentities wish to have relations with Mr. God direct. This is impossible. But you can have a relation in this line. What you do here, for instance, has this changed your interior ideal - since you took part in our conversations? (Yes) Then perhaps you have confidence in the person who directs here? (Yes) Then he can serve as techer in the meantime.
Q: That does not satisfy me entirely. I want something else.
G: Then make a program. You do not know what you want. I wish you to understand that your nearest - father, mother, teacher - can serve as your ideal in place of God. The real God, forget him. As you are, you can never have relations with God. When you have grown, this could be, but you are one among millions of nonentities. Meantime, take as an ideal whoever is nearest and then you can pray to God, because this person has an ideal also, this ideal has in turn an ideal and so on, on to God. God is far, there are many stages before you reach him, do not think about Him. Your ideal will be your God. Later you can have another ideal.
Mme. de Salzmann: God is much too far away. You are too small to have direct contact with him. Only he who is immediately above you can be God for you. He is a God who in his turn has a God. It is a ladder, there is always something above. Each degree (rung) leads you to another rung and you get your answer by the same chain.
G: You cannot pray directly to God. You imagine so, but you waste your time. It is from there that psychopathy comes. Like a monk. He says directly "God". He manipulates like this (gestures) and sixty years later he perishes like a dog without ever having received anything. He wanted God directly. No one has seen Him, for the law of contacts is strict. This law exists everywhere. You will look for your God when you have felt yourself guided in the right direction, on a good road, for instance by Mme. de Salzmann. Then she will be your God. She is not God, but she will be your first stage; you can have contact with God through her; make all your prayers and good manifestations pass through her and that itself will make contact with the next stage. Then a third stage and finally it is possible that your prayer will reach the real God. Exactly like the telegraph; a message to a relative in the country near Lyons. First from Paris to Lyons; then to another town, then to the village, then to your reletive's house. By states and it takes some time.
Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch
This extract is from a 1944 group meeting in Paris.
G: I have already answered this question when someone asked the same thing. I said: if you do not have an ideal, if you do not believe in God, then your father, your mother, your teacher can serve for you as an ideal.
Q: I have an ideal, I have always been a Catholic. But I no longer see Jesus Christ in the same way.
G: In the beginning Catholicism was very good, but not latterly. They searched for midday at two o'clock; they diluted everything. In the beginning it was superior to the Orthodox religion and to all others.
Q: I cannot recapture the faith of my childhood.
G: That is not necessary. You have lost that possibility. You are no longer a child, you are big now. You should have logic and not search automatically. To have direct contact with God is impossible. Millions and millions of nonentities wish to have relations with Mr. God direct. This is impossible. But you can have a relation in this line. What you do here, for instance, has this changed your interior ideal - since you took part in our conversations? (Yes) Then perhaps you have confidence in the person who directs here? (Yes) Then he can serve as techer in the meantime.
Q: That does not satisfy me entirely. I want something else.
G: Then make a program. You do not know what you want. I wish you to understand that your nearest - father, mother, teacher - can serve as your ideal in place of God. The real God, forget him. As you are, you can never have relations with God. When you have grown, this could be, but you are one among millions of nonentities. Meantime, take as an ideal whoever is nearest and then you can pray to God, because this person has an ideal also, this ideal has in turn an ideal and so on, on to God. God is far, there are many stages before you reach him, do not think about Him. Your ideal will be your God. Later you can have another ideal.
Mme. de Salzmann: God is much too far away. You are too small to have direct contact with him. Only he who is immediately above you can be God for you. He is a God who in his turn has a God. It is a ladder, there is always something above. Each degree (rung) leads you to another rung and you get your answer by the same chain.
G: You cannot pray directly to God. You imagine so, but you waste your time. It is from there that psychopathy comes. Like a monk. He says directly "God". He manipulates like this (gestures) and sixty years later he perishes like a dog without ever having received anything. He wanted God directly. No one has seen Him, for the law of contacts is strict. This law exists everywhere. You will look for your God when you have felt yourself guided in the right direction, on a good road, for instance by Mme. de Salzmann. Then she will be your God. She is not God, but she will be your first stage; you can have contact with God through her; make all your prayers and good manifestations pass through her and that itself will make contact with the next stage. Then a third stage and finally it is possible that your prayer will reach the real God. Exactly like the telegraph; a message to a relative in the country near Lyons. First from Paris to Lyons; then to another town, then to the village, then to your reletive's house. By states and it takes some time.
Friday, September 24, 2010
glad tidings to the strangers!
The first words of Prophet were:
Actions are based on intentions
The First Words of Allah to Muhammad were Iqra! Read, Investigate, look into, think about
Muhammad was known as the Ummi Prophet, Literally "from his mother" not formally educated, unlettered
therefore, not conditioned, unencumbered by conditioning, pure, free from the dirt of affectation of the dominant confusion at any given time, free from what divided man from culture to culture, generation to generation.
In other words, ready to receive, not with mind, but heart
From the pure energy of a holy woman,
That is also the honor of women!
Actions are outward movements in a world of illusion
Intentions have to do with your inner world, your reality and are Divinely
No way to have good intentions if your hooked by the dirt of propaganda, conditioning, pain, fear.
We are yet non entities, nothings in the bad sense, we have to strive to be real, find the real beneath the countless false faces, then we can ask what is the true religion, what are the true steps, who is a true Prophet? How can you know if we are not true ourselves
Only the pure ones have pure intention:
imagine to look at the sun and moon and not count them,
To look at people and not judge them,
to see the things of this world and not term them, this and that
imagine we could be ready to receive whats coming unencumbered
Intelligence is not mechanical,
it is something given to all humans
perception
we must join with those ways which protect the purity of humanity
and project its endeavors to heaven and eternity
Peace be to the strangers in this time:
For Prophet said: “Islam began as something strange and will revert to being strange as it began, so give glad tidings to the strangers.”
Actions are based on intentions
The First Words of Allah to Muhammad were Iqra! Read, Investigate, look into, think about
Muhammad was known as the Ummi Prophet, Literally "from his mother" not formally educated, unlettered
therefore, not conditioned, unencumbered by conditioning, pure, free from the dirt of affectation of the dominant confusion at any given time, free from what divided man from culture to culture, generation to generation.
In other words, ready to receive, not with mind, but heart
From the pure energy of a holy woman,
That is also the honor of women!
Actions are outward movements in a world of illusion
Intentions have to do with your inner world, your reality and are Divinely
No way to have good intentions if your hooked by the dirt of propaganda, conditioning, pain, fear.
We are yet non entities, nothings in the bad sense, we have to strive to be real, find the real beneath the countless false faces, then we can ask what is the true religion, what are the true steps, who is a true Prophet? How can you know if we are not true ourselves
Only the pure ones have pure intention:
imagine to look at the sun and moon and not count them,
To look at people and not judge them,
to see the things of this world and not term them, this and that
imagine we could be ready to receive whats coming unencumbered
Intelligence is not mechanical,
it is something given to all humans
perception
we must join with those ways which protect the purity of humanity
and project its endeavors to heaven and eternity
Peace be to the strangers in this time:
For Prophet said: “Islam began as something strange and will revert to being strange as it began, so give glad tidings to the strangers.”
Go Habs Go
...In such a world, there is no longer any place for intelligence, or anything else that is purely inward, for these are things that can neither be seen nor touched, that can neither be counted nor weighed; there is a place only for outward action in all forms...it is for this reason that the Anglo-Saxon obsession for sport gains ground day by day: the ideal of the modern world is the 'human animal' who has developed his muscular strength to the highest pitch; its heroes are athletes; even though they be mere brutes; it is they who awaken popular enthusiasm, and it is their exploits that command the passionate interest of the crowd. A world in which such things are seen has indeed sunk low....
-Rene Guenon- Philosopher of the 20th century
-Rene Guenon- Philosopher of the 20th century
Thursday, September 23, 2010
I am Muslim
Alhamdulillah
Not a slave
Alhamdulillah
I follow the unlettered Prophet,
Alhamdulillah
In a time when conditioning runs so deep
I follow the one who was the most unconditioned on earth:
The pure one, the virgin one, the beloved one
Mustafa Muhammad
Al hamdulillah
I will never erase his name from my life
My religion is Islam,
Alhamdulillah
I'm not Christian but I follow Christ
I'm not Buddhist my I follow the Buddha
I'm not Jewish But I follow Moses
I follow Muhammad and follow them all
for it is him that binds them all
I follow the final phase of the revelation
Alhamdulillah
and its In Muhammad that I found my humanity
Left the madness of my mind
the violence of meaninglessness
I came to Truth
Alhamdulillah
I'm so proud and happy and grateful
To be Muslim in the end of times
the greatest move I made
away from insanity
to eternity
Alhamdulillah
My teacher is Shaykh Nazim
Alhamdulillah
The Muhammadian Inheritor for the end of times
My Shaykh and my teacher
You can't tell me he is not true
because I met him in his home in Cyprus in 2008
and he changed my life with out saying a word
he took my weight and gave me light
I carry it still in my heart
and it makes me discern what is true and false
alhamdulillah
That is what's called living revelation
I am Sayfudeen
which means
The Sword of the Religion
Alhamdulillah
Alhamdulillah
Not a slave
Alhamdulillah
I follow the unlettered Prophet,
Alhamdulillah
In a time when conditioning runs so deep
I follow the one who was the most unconditioned on earth:
The pure one, the virgin one, the beloved one
Mustafa Muhammad
Al hamdulillah
I will never erase his name from my life
My religion is Islam,
Alhamdulillah
I'm not Christian but I follow Christ
I'm not Buddhist my I follow the Buddha
I'm not Jewish But I follow Moses
I follow Muhammad and follow them all
for it is him that binds them all
I follow the final phase of the revelation
Alhamdulillah
and its In Muhammad that I found my humanity
Left the madness of my mind
the violence of meaninglessness
I came to Truth
Alhamdulillah
I'm so proud and happy and grateful
To be Muslim in the end of times
the greatest move I made
away from insanity
to eternity
Alhamdulillah
My teacher is Shaykh Nazim
Alhamdulillah
The Muhammadian Inheritor for the end of times
My Shaykh and my teacher
You can't tell me he is not true
because I met him in his home in Cyprus in 2008
and he changed my life with out saying a word
he took my weight and gave me light
I carry it still in my heart
and it makes me discern what is true and false
alhamdulillah
That is what's called living revelation
I am Sayfudeen
which means
The Sword of the Religion
Alhamdulillah
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