Imam Hussain (AS) and Karbala: a brief meditation
"Every soul must taste of death, and We try you with evil and with good, for ordeal. And unto Us will ye be returned." Qur'an (XXI: 35)
"The ugly is passing accident, while beauty is abiding substance."
S. H. Nasr
"One word of Truth shall outweigh the world."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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Man is body, soul and Spirit.
He lives in time, but he is not of it, he is
a bridge between change and Permanence,
a barzakh between time and Eternity.
His life here is but a passing moment,
nothing more than the "breath of a buffalo",
like the falling petals of cherry blossoms,
whimsical change and cheerless transience.
We have a Center to which we are tied,
and which orients us.
We have a Source, an Origin from which we come,
and to which we must return.
The cursed, the vulgar, the heedless,
cling passionately to the dirt of this world.
Fractured souls, scattered creatures of nafs,
they lust after ugliness, and cherish the worst.
The Noble, the Sage, the Saint---the very symbols
of Truth, Beauty and Goodness--
are luminous beings who "die before dying", primordial seeds
that live on as heavenly flowers, fragrant, full of sweetness.
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Satyan nasti paro dharmah
"There is no religion higher than the Truth (Haqq)."
Maxim of the Maharajas of Benares
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