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)
"Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." John Knox
"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, Goodness and Beauty--
are luminous beings who "die before dying"
the primordial seeds that live on
as perennial, heavenly flowers
fragrant and 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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