Yas'aluHu ma fis-samawati wa-l-'ard.
Kulla yowmin Huwa fi sha'n.
Fabi'ayyi 'alaa'i Rabbikuma tukazziban?
In heavenly and planetary planes of existence, all beseech Him.
In every moment He is acting.
Which, then, of the favors of your Lord will you deny?
- Final Testament, Chapter of the Universally Merciful (55:29-30)
If we wish to partake in the Divine Hue by taking up the Divine Colors (Sibghata Allahi), a way of embodying the Transcendent is to engage in wholesome action in every moment. Remember, the Divine in every instant manifesting Pure Action in ceaseless creation, preservation, destruction and resurrection. God's "being in action in every moment" is a Divine Attribute. For the human being, the khalifa, 'the image', the encapsulated 'secret' in body - all possible range of human affairs, from the simplest act of breathing when done in grateful awareness to the act of washing the body-temple for purification, to the act of love making, all can become acts of devotion towards the Divine, Glorious is Hu, Who acts in every moment. May all our striving towards embodying the Transcendent be made part of the indivisible wholeness in our sacred journey towards holiness, towards Godliness (Rabbani).
Kulla yowmin Huwa fi sha'n. In every moment Hu is acting.
* Past Posts on Meditative Quranic Verses
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Dear Sadiq,
Very beautiful...thank you very much for this.
Kindest wishes,
mo'in
”a way of embodying the Transcendent is to engage in wholesome action in every moment.”
- Yes, but then which action is ‘WHOLESOME”? Wholesome is the action in which you are no more, no ego left in you to act. Instead, you let God, the WHOLE act through you. An egoless human being is like an empty vessel through which God pours Himself into Existence. Than nothing in you is "haram" or "eyb" (shameful), nothing of what you say or do is but divine.
dear Sadiq, as always one very beautiful and very sublime post that makes me want to dance and whirl when i am reading it, and listening to the audio, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as we say sometimes, and letting go and dancing is one of those acts that leads us to becoming part of the Divine,and its musivc that helps us empty our minds and become one with God. most grateful for your beautiful graphics, as well.ase
No, I dont think God AlMighty will just come to everyone, anyone, without the humble servant FIRST beseeching to Him - hence the imperatives of Suupplication :
The Lord says in the Quran :
" Heaven & Earth contains Me not,
but the hearth of my humble servant containeth Me ...! ":
Dear Abnizar,
God cannot be found in any imperatives. God can only be found in the sincerity of an open and vulnerable heart, which loves Him, the only One, not because it has to, not because it is imposed upon by imperatives, but because it LOVES. That love which overflows a humble, egoless heart, ready to melt and disappear into the Beloved.
subhaanAllah ! God is Here,its only v who are Lost ! Seeker has a Desire,whc is thus transformed into Talab( intense Yearning )by Teacher.only one Glimpse wud do.Its Murshid who enables The Heart to Absorb the vastness of LOrd !!
On Mansur's lips, 'Iam God was the light of truth
'I am the lord,'on the lips of Pharaoh was a lie"
Rumi
How human being can found God; infinite, omnipresent, omniscient or omnipotent? What is teaching by Qur'an and prophet's hadiths about God, here is no any verses and any saying of prophet can found God but many times mention how humanbeing can found near to God and how He please with us. And He is our final goal.
We, human being is also part of nature and in nature,every being manifest and represent sign of God that means we are with God every moments.
Found God means be God, it never imposible; we are his creations and definite but He is the only infinite one. If we can be infinite one then we are not 'we' any more!
''AND OBEY ALLAH AND HIS MESSENGER;'' - (Qur'an 8:46)
Yes, and it is so, dear Azad Komol,
"we are his creations and definite but He is the only infinite one. If we can be infinite one then we are not 'we' any more!""
- Being His creation our Lord defines us, determines us. And what can we do if He wants us to disappear in His In-finiteness, if he wants us to disappear as a separate Ego and to become egoless nothingness in which only He can abide?
The imperatives are not on God, the imperatives are on his humble servants !
Since Sadiq has put this marvelous & invaluable piece on the Meaning of Life is The Embodiment of The Transcendant by Dalai Llama, allow me to pose this problem, which may invigorate our thoughts :
What is the Transcendent ? In the Quran The Lord says " I am the outwardly manifest & the inwardly hidden " : The entirety of the vastness & limitless Space ( which Sir Isaac Newton described as Second Divinity ) consisting of our Planetry System, Constellations, Stars, Androemedas, Nebulae, Galaxies, blackholes - all Infinite, vast & magnificent - are The Lord's Manifestations and, therefore, He The Al'Mighty is " TRANSCENDENT " & identified with our Physical Universe !
Compare with Man as individual unit, tiny & floating about in the vastness of the Physical Universe like a spectrum of " dust ", indeed, if I may suggest, for man to BOAST with a HUGE EGO ( huge Nafs ) to make lip-service pronouncement about a tiny body " embodying The Transcendent " : To solve the HUGE RIDDLE, HOW does man do it ?
I propose we all as a team try to approach His Holiness, so that he may UNRAVEL to us the Secrets & Mysteries lying deep behind " The Embodiment of The Transcendent " ? ?
Salaams & Peace !
Abnizar 7
"There is nothing that does not come from him.
Of everything he is the inmost Self.
He is the truth; he is the Self supreme.
You are that Shvetaketu; you are that."
- from the Chandogya Upanishad
In awakening to the truth of who we really are,
there is Oneness, there is Love.
Herein lies the freedom of Being
~ herein lies the peace of man.
"To solve the HUGE RIDDLE, HOW does man do it?"
Dear Abnizar,
There is nothing done by man. The real doer is the Ultimate, the All Mighty. To let Him do, that is all which is needed by you as a man. You as an ego, as the old personnality, with all your past conditionning, beliefs and disbeliefs, you have to disappear and a new man has to be born, a new individuality with no past, fresh and child like innocent. Then only, can He act through you.
DEAR aliya,
" The real doer is the Ultimate, the Al'Mighty " - you said
I am afraid, that would be a " huge ego" ( Nafs ) IF ( IF ) the humble servant do not first beseech & do all the Supplications! It is said in hadith, that if the humble servant takes the first step, God would come ten steps to him....
Then you need to understand better what the ego is, dear Abnizar!
Ego, "huge" or "small", is all the same illusion of the human mind of being separate entity in Existence, of being separate from God Infiniteness. To drop this illusion you can in one split of second, without any imperatives imposed on you, without any doings, supplications or other impositions. Just simple understanding of the real nature of ego will do - seeing the falsity and non existentiality of the ego you are out of its grasp already.
This understanding is what is meant by "taking the first step"in the hadith. All the other "ten steps", leave them to God. He is the Doer. There is no other Doer than Him, the Only One.
Ooops, the real huge ego ( nafs ) is the " illusion " to invoke Al' Mighty The Lord of The Universe ( Manifested by the Space of Infinity called " The Transcendence " ) by the flip of two-fingers ! ! Wow..that's realy a huge nafs...
God Bless...Holy of all Holies..
It seems for you, Abnizar, ""the real huge ego"" feels offended that truth is just ""the flip of two-fingers"" away. Ego always feels offended, threatened, underestimated. It is because ego knows its fragilety and limitations, its falsity, non existentiality and ego is afraid it can be revealed easily.
As for Our Lord, the Only Powerful, the Ultimate Reality there is, for Him nothing is threatening and he fears nothing. He is the most Merciful and Most patient waiting for you, the human being to stop dreaming about ego and just awake.
Heart is the birth place of LOve.But whn there'r Ego,there's no Heart.Says The God,He loves us,Hws it possible we love him not.Its Reciprocal!We All Love him,Few Knowingly mny Unknowigly.Such Deep is tis Urge of Love within,tat oft we start confusing it wth other Loves.Our Ego makes our own Gods of Desire&Fear! But Selfless is The Love whc is in Love wth the Love of The Beloved!Then Love becomes 'Ishq'(Ultimate Love).U wnt to marry a person saying U lov him,but dont respect his likes&Dislikes,thn u hv Loved not.The one who Loves His Lord¬ in Love wth Wht He LOves,is ascribing a lie.He's in deception.Tis's Ego!Wth 1 touch of Teacher's gaze,capacity within us in opened to absorb all Divine LOve.Having a Spiritual Teacher&Being without him is like A child wth Parents&an Orphan.
A Teacher says' Tis's Faqar(spiritual Path)in it the Truth of one is not the lie of another.its bout experience,within us.Murshid enables us to differentiate btw Ego&Heart!
dear friend
i have become addicted to browse this site daily in the morning. any day i was not be able to see it. i feel some incompletness in my heart. your blog is like garden of fresh and beautiful flowers with soothing and mesmerizing fragrances. and specially the song and music is playing is creates a different atmosphere.
Keep continuing this
with deep gratitude.
Swami Bodhi Alok
Dear all,
With loving gratitude for your comments and insights here.
Dear Swami Alok, friend and brother on the Path - your comment means a lot to my heart. The mystery of Lord by which many hearts who come to Love God are united - is beyond words.
May we bask in the light of such sublime mystery.
Namaste!
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