It is related that Isa or Jesus, peace be upon him (Its preferrable that we call him by his original Aramaic name Isa, rather than Jesus, which is a later latinized name. His true name is Isa, or Eesa as refreshed in Quranic Arabic, also English transliteration of Ancient Aramaic put as Eashoa', as inspired by God through the Holy Spirit, Ruh al-Quddus, to his noble Mother, Maryam and its only polite and proper to call someone by his / her actual name as it sounds in actuality. And his name Eesa, mind you, is never given to any other Son of Man before him. The name itself is a source of Baraka and it contains undisclosed secret in it) during one of his wandering trips, passed a mountain in which there was a hermit's cell. He came to it and found a worshiper there whose back had been bent down and whose body had grown very thin out of very serious ascetic practices.
Ea-shoa' M'shee-kha (Isa Messiah) greeted him and was astonished by his evident signs of piety and devotion. Isa asked him, "How long have you been in this cell?The hermit replied: "For the past seventy years I have been asking God for one thing which He has not yet fulfilled for me. Oh, Spirit of God, if you acted as my intercessor, perhaps my desire would finally be granted."
Isa Messiah asked, "And what is your request?"
The recluse said, "I have been asking Him to let me taste a tiny amount of the purest of His love."
Isa replied, "I shall pray for you to that effect."
So Isa Messiah prayed for the man, and God revealed the following: "I have accepted your intercession and granted the petition of your prayer." Isa ibn Maryam went back to the same place after a few days to see what had happened to the worshiper. He saw that the cell had collapsed, and the earth under it had opened into a great crevice.
Isa descended into the crevice and came, after several leagues, to its end where he found the hermit standing with his eyes fixed and his mouth wide-open.Isa Messiah greeted him with his usual greetings of peace in his mother tonque Aramaic, Shalom Aleichem (peace be upon you), but he didn't reply. Master Isa was astonished at the man's condition and heard a mysterious voice call out: "O Isa ibn Maryam (Jesus, the son of Mary)! He has asked Us for a tiny amount of the purest of Our love, but knowing that he was unable to bear it, We gave him only the seventieth part of an atom, and it has stupified him, as you can see. What if We had given him more!?"
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The story is related in a sufi manual by the title "Mahasin al-Majalis" (The Attraction of Mystical Sessions) by Ibn al-Arif and translated by William Elliott and Adnan K. Abdulla. This story appears in describing the stage of love (al-mahabba) of the mystical path.
Describing this stage, the author says, "As for love, it is the beginning of the valleys of extinction and the mountain from which one descends through the stages of self-annihilation. Love is also the last of the mystical stages, where the vanguard of the mass of believers meets the rearguard of the elect ones (the saints and purified ones).
.. There are those who talk freely of love and profess to disclose its secrets, but they have never tasted it and were only moved by the ecstasy of its smell. If one actually tastes of love, he forgets how to explain or describe it. Real love does not show itself on the lover by his speech, but rather by his qualities and his glance. Its reality (haqiqa) is not understood either by the one who loves or by the one who is loved, because ecstatic union is a blending of secrets and hearts."
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"Whatever I have said about love, when love comes, I am ashamed to speak." - Rumi
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Going back to the story of Isa and the dumbfound hermit, the author further goes on to explain that the denseness of the world, as if like minerals are the filters that protect us to be effaced by the Divine Love. For the sufis, everything that comes from the slave, the creation is defective, due to the slave's incapacity and emptiness. So esoteric reality means that the entire creation including the slaves of God subsists only from the substance that their Lord grants them; he loves with the love from God; and he sees with the vision allotted by God.
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A delicious Sufi parable, dear bhai, and a lovely and loving tribute to the real meaning of love, beyond speech and understanding.
Ya Haqq!
Man lam yazuq, lam yadri.
He who tastes not, knows not.
-E-
He who tastes not, knows not
I’m talking to You
There is a way to prevent the next 9-11, tidal wave and nuclear holocausts. It’s up to you.
Things are not as they seem. The prime minister, presidents senators are not really in control. You are, we are. But we are asleep. We have been sleeping for generations, a sleep of forgetfulness.
Wake up
I’m calling you from the endless worlds, I’m calling you.
What we think, what we see is not what it is. Reality looks something like this :
The Divine faces called Father and Mother are secret of the lock. Darkness of the face called Mother makes power to raise the manifestation of the Divine presence as it is now become closer to a perfect revelation according to Divine understanding.1 Yhv”h is the face called Father by Ahy”h the face called mother hides the face called Father . The face called Father is the secret of Yhv”h in direct light , drawing direct light. The face called Mother is the opposite aspect of Yhv”h drawing returning light. There are 1000 years masculine and 1000 years feminine. “H” of the Name is the secret of feminine Divinity on wisdom with the power to create. This is the returning light on wisdom with the power to create..3 The expanded consciousness
So you don’t understand, no one does as Divine wisdom is endless. Try to and you will be given your keys, to everything.
We have forgotten our way home but here is the map. We must learn to read again, these are the streets of your neighborhood, our worlds.
But know your house our world is on fire, its burning up. This is no illusion. How many bombs does it take to destroy the world ?
You must begin by waking up and remembering the way home. How you are in charge of the ship of the world. A shipwreck is not necessary. We have been given the map, the charts we have almost all of them now. Our world does not have to be left in the hand of Demons to do as they please.
It is time for you to stand up for our world, really do something. The hours are getting late.
Here is the way to work in the intergalactic joint chief of staffs, the big board room in the sky, the council of the Angels above :
I can and want to show you the way. But know “ There is a road no simple highway between the dark and the light of night and if you go no one may follow as that path is for your steps alone”
I can only show you the way to get there
http://godssecret.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/wake-up/
Sadiq Bhai, I'm a Muslim like yourself, but I also have an interest in linguistics, and I'd like to point out that Isa is not the "original Aramaic name" of the prophet (peace be upon him) we call by that name. The Aramaic form of his name is Yeshua. Isa is the Arabised form of the same name. The names of most prophets (peace be upon them) mentioned in the Qur'an are given in their Arabised versions.
Hi Rashed,
Thank you for pointing out, I am including the other variatoins to transliterate the original name.
Now the problem is that in the semitic language there are letters which can not be accurately be translated. And also when the names are written using Aramaic to Hebrew to Greek / Latin they keep changing because the original sound was only approximated.
There is a theory that suggest Yeshua is a Hebrew name which has been transliterated into Greek as Iesous. As we know The English "Jesus" comes from the Latin transliteration of the Greek name into the Latin Iesus.
Interestingly, "Yeshua" although very approximate to Eesa or Isa - the very name Yeshua (Jeshua) appears in many places in Old Testament which suggest that this name didn't begin with Prophet Isa, peace be upon him.
They sound very similar though.
(if you can imagine the difference of Sin, Shin, Swad, Waw how they contribute to sound, you know the effect of approximation).
"When the angels said to Mary, 'O Mary! God gives you glad tidings of a Word from Him. His name will be 'al-MaseeHu `Eesa', the son of Mary; Honorable in this world and in the hereafter, and from those who are near (to God)."
[al-Qur'aan, Surah Aal-`Imraan, 3:45]
Here are few resources you may look at:
Pronouncing the name of Jesus in the Aramaic language
Pronouncing the name of Jesus in the Aramaic language
Ea-shoa
Jesus's name
Yeshua
One more thing to clarify that the transliteration Ea-shoa is more preferable that Yashua because although approximate they have different meaning and also more importantly Yashua was a common hebrew / aramaic name even before the advent of Jesus whereas we know his name was an unique one.
In the Ancient Aramaic, the name is spelled "yeh-sheen-waw-ein." Close pronunciation would be Eashoa.
In Quranic Arabic its written with simplified form with "Ayn-yeh-sin". 'Aeisa or Eesa or 'Isa.
Taste and see He is honey in the rock...
beautiful post
Salam. Firstly, glad to see you back. I hope you had a really nice time off and I hope you have been safe and well. Ehat a fantastic surprise to find this post, where the lines have an intense peaceful beauty.
Thanks for sharing your tremendous insight.
I have a deeper understanding of what love really means, although this understanding only comes from a human level of thought :)
Ryan
Lot many things are going on in the name of ‘LOVE‘!!!
Saint Kabir say’s,
‘Pothee Paaddha Pandit bhayaa,gaayaa naa maan kaa maail!
Ddaai aakhaar PREM kaa, paaddhey so pandit hoey‘!!
It means, By referring books(what so ever it is) one can become so called knowledgeable person, but it doesn’t remove dirt of your mind(these accumulated dirt’s doesn’t allow to feel the presence of Divine within) . If you are able to read what ‘LOVE IS’ in life(Love is radiance of Divine presence), you are then really knowledgeable.
Saint Kabir was illiterate off course, student`s use to Ph.D on his works in Benaras Hindu University today.
My guru say’s about LOVE; ‘Ye voh nagama haai jo haar saaj pey gaayaa naahin jaataa’
Better prepare the instrument(yourself).
You know Rabindra nath`s famous line; Aame jaantra,toomey jaantry.
We all are His instruments, but the songs of LOVE has been so far played on very few!
Topic is Love, and we are discussing genesis of name and religion. I am surprised to see the swing. This is not insight, definitely.
Living man is more precious then all other, because of the divine presence. How a man frees his life stream from counter acting negative/demonical forces(sense of body identity and doer ship), is the real concern today.
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