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Alone with the Alone

  Alone with the Alone Dear Beloved! Let us go toward Union. And If we find the road that leads to separation, We will Destroy Separation.  Listen oh Dearly Beloved, I am the reality of the world, The centre of the circumference, I am the parts and the Whole. I am the well established between Heaven and Earth, I have created perception in you only in  order to be the object of my perception. If then you perceive me, You perceive yourself, But you cannot perceive through yourself. It is through my eyes That you see me and see yourself, Through your eyes cannot see me. Dearly Beloved,  I have called you so often and you have not heard me, I have shown myself to you so often and you have not seen me, I have made myself  fragrance so often and you have not smelled me. Savours food and you have not tasted me. Why can you not reach me,  Through the object you touch, Or breathe me through sweet perfume? Why Do you not See me? Why Do you not See me? (A Poem by Ibn...

The Alchemy of Happiness

One Day Imam Al Ghazali woke up early in morning, as usual he offered Fajar Prayer. He asked his Brother Ahmed Al Ghazali, what day it was? ; his younger brother replied "Monday". The Imam Ghazali Asked him to bring his white shroud(Cloak),kissed it and stretched himself full length and saying "Lord, I obey willingly," Breathed his Last. And underneath his head rest, they found the below words, composed by him at night.  " Say to my friends, when they look upon me, Dead Weeping for me, mourning for me in sorrow Don't Believe that this corpse you see is myself In the name of God, I tell you, It is not I I am Spirit, and this is naught but flesh It was my abode and garment for time. I am treasure, by talisman kept hid, Fashioned of dust, which served me as a shrine, I am a pearl, which has left it's shell deserted,  I am a bird, and this body was my cage Whence I have now floron forth and it is left as a token Praise to God, Who hath now set me free And p...