Discounted shipping with DHL ۩ Rumi's Garden is not responsible for unlikely courier delays or import/ duty taxes Discounted shipping with DHL ۩ Rumi's Garden is not responsible for unlikely courier delays or import/ duty taxes

Sultan Walad: The Soul That Does not Live in God is not Alive

Sultan Walad: The Soul That Does not Live in God is not Alive
 
_____________________________
 
Photo: Group of Bedouin women just outside of Jericho, Palestine; c. 1910
 
_____________________________
    
Spring makes red and white flowers appear on the trees,
But the spring that is the origin of colors is colorless.
Understand what I have said, and give up all talk;
Run to the Origin without color and unite yourself to it.
Annihilate yourself before the One Existence
So that thousands of worlds leap out of you
And your pure existence flames out of itself
And goes on and on birthing different forms.
Of course, none of these forms will last.
Happy is the one who knows this mystery!
Happy is he who gives his life to know this!
He leaves this house for another far more radiant.
You cannot understand this mystery through reason;
The Way to Knowledge winds through suffering and torment.
If you do not feel pain, you do not look for healing.
The soul that does not live in God is not alive.
She seems like a soul, but does not deserve the name:
She has not been made alive by the Beloved.
The soul is given life by the four-elements
Like a lamp that burns through the night:
The light is from oil and wick, it is not eternal.
While the oil exists, the lamp burns, but then goes out.
The one made alive by God will never die.
He lives through God and not through gold or bread.
God is the Light, the Eternal Source of Lights.
The Light is causeless, as is His fiery radiance.
Like gold, God's value comes from His pure, perfect essence.
 
(Sultan Walad)
________________________________________________
 
Recommended Reading:
 
'Perfume of the Desert: Inspirations from Sufi Wisdom'
by Andrew Harvey (Author), Eryk Hanut (Author)
 
Purchase Book: 
Description:
  
Renowned for his inspiring interpretations of world spiritual traditions, celebrated modern mystic Andrew Harvey teams with photographer Eryk Hanut to create a stunning book of readings drawn from Sufi mysticism. Teaching stories, prophetic sayings, folk tales and jests, Hanut's evocative photographs, and Harvey's breathtaking translations of the ecstatic poetry of Rumi, Kabir, and others make this little book an inspirational and artistic treasure.
 
"Mystic revolutionary Andrew Harvey has created an exquisite map for all seekers who wander the wilderness of the heart. His passionate renderings, along with Eryk Hanut's haunting visual meditations, are tracks in a desert that seduce us deep into the interior of Sufism. I love this book."
 
(Gabrielle Roth, author of Sweat Your Prayers and Maps to Ecstasy)
 
"Here is a book on Sufism that conveys the love and passion that belongs to this path. Andrew Harvey speaks with the language of lovers, and his book carries the invisible perfume for which the soul longs.
 
(Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, author of Sufism: The Transformation of the Heart)
 
"Blindingly beautiful! Andrew Harvey inspires what the world needs more than anything else - mystical love."
 
(Mary Ford-Grabowsky, Ph.D., author of Sacred Poems and Prayers of Love and Prayers for All People)
 
"A loving, lyrical selection of Sufi voices."
 
(James Fadiman, Ph.D., co-editor of Essential Sufism)
 
"Some of the finest treasures from the literature of Sufism."
 
(Robert Frager, Ph.D., co-editor of Essential Sufism and author of Heart, Self, and Soul: The Sufi Psychology of Growth, Balance and Harmony)
_____________________________
 
Kiswah al Saadat from the Holy tomb of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) sold at www.RumisGarden.co.uk
 
________________________________________________  
 

To visit Rumi's Garden online Islamic store click here.
 
We sell replicas of the Prophet Muhammads' (PBUH) blessed footprint, Kaaba kiswahs, kiswahs from the Prophet Muhammed's holy chamber in Medina, carpets from Riad al Jannah, bakhoor, incense burners, Muslim prayer beads and much more! 

Leave a comment

// sahil theme app extension