FahimAbdul-Jahi "By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed" - African Proverb - April 20, 2010 add/view comments (0)

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    El-Fahim Abdul-Jahi

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A man with a weak mind can see no more than a blind man, hear no more than a deaf man, speak no more than a mute, and has no sense at all.

-El Fahim Abdul-Jahi



Allah (God) first created the world as something amorphous and without grace comparable to a mirror not yet polished; but it is a rule in the Divine activity to prepare no `place` without it receiving a Divine spirit as is explained (in the Qur`an) by the blowing of the Divine spirit into Adam (salallahu alaihi wa sallam); and this is none other (from a complementary point of view to the former) than the actualization of the aptitude (al-isti`dad) which such a form possesses, having already the predisposition for it, to receive the inexhaustible effusion (al-fayd) of the essential revelation (at-tajalli).

There is not (apart from the Divine Reality) other than one pure receptacle (qabil); but this receptacle comes from the Holy Effusion (al-fayd al-aqdas) . For, the entire reality (al-amr) from its beginning to its end comes from Allah (God) alone, and it is to Him that it returns. So, then, the Divine Order required the clarification of the mirror of the world; and Adam (salallahu alaihi wa sallam) became the light itself of this mirror and the spirit of this form...

Ibn Arabi
Andalusian mystic poet
from "The Wisdom of the Prophets"

One cannot contemplate Allah (God) directly without any medium (either perceptible or spiritual), for Allah (God) per se is independent of any one world...

The contemplation of Allah (God) in women is the most intense and the most perfect; and the most intense union (within the perceptible order that serves as a medium for such contemplation) is the act of love.

Ibn Arabi
Andalusian mystic poet

The Ant in Love

Walking one day in a lonely place, King Sulaiman (Solomon) chanced upon an ant hill. All ants immediately came out to hail the king. Only one of their member took no notice of him, for it was busy carrying grain by grain the enormous pile of sand rising before it. King Sulaiman called the insect before him and said:

"O tiny ant, even with the longevity of Nuh (Noah) and the patience of Ayyub (Job), you will never make this mountain of sand disappear!"

"O great king," said the ant, "Do not regard my size alone...but take heed of my ardor as well. Behind this mound stands my beloved. Nothing shall stop me from leveling it. And if I must lose my life, at least I shall die in the hope of reaching her."

O King, learn from an ant what the power of love is, learn from the blind man the secret of vision.

Farid al-Din Attar
Persian mystic poet

The Lover

A man madly in love knocked on the door of his beloved. She asked from behind the door: "Who is there?" He answered: "It is I!" And she replied: "There is not enough room for both you and me in the same house." So he betook himself to the desert to meditate. Years later, he came back and knocked on her door. The voice of his beloved asked: "Who is it?" He answered: "It is yourself!" And the door opened wide.

Ibn Arabi
Andalusian mystic poet

Someone once asked me how old I was, having seen my advanced age, turning to gray at my temples, and in the locks along my forehead.

I answered, "One hour. For verily, I count the time I have lived as nothing."

He replied, "What do you mean? Explain. Here is indeed the most moving of things."

I said: "One day, by surprise, I stole a kiss, a secret kiss, from her who has my heart. However, many my days may number, I shall count only that brief moment, for it was truly my entire life.

Ibn Hazm
Andalusian writer
Tawq al-Hamama (The Dove`s Neck Ring)

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Posted June 30, 2009


Words and Concepts of Enlightenment and Higher Social Connection

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