| Divine Face of Jalal ud Din Rumi |
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| Harut And Marut were proud of their piety and had wanted to rule the world |
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| People are like Harut and Marut angels notorious
Their pride hath them hit but by arrows poisonous Proud they�ve been of their piety forever Wonder a cow trusting a lion for favor? The cow may think of 100 ways of overcoming a lion Ultimately it shall be torn apart in 100 pieces by the lion Grow as many horns as skunk has needles The lion has to kill the cow nevertheless |
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| (1) Reason is the use of human intelligence in a logical way. Its task is to reduce complex problems into simple solutions. The making of pulley is human craft and it wonders at human genius by revolving round and round. While the skies are Divine art and they are bowed in humility before their creator.
(2) �jeem� and �daal� are Persian letters of alphabet. The breathing is greatly affected by whirling of emotion, because it shows the same surge, the rise and fall as there is between human faith and hope to gain or to loose. So sometimes it gains and elate like �jeem� and sometimes looses and constricts like �daal� and all is evident in our style of breathing; it is an involuntary function, thus more in control of spirit than human mind. (3) (Rumi quotes Qu�ran: (41: 15-16). Now the 'Aad behaved arrogantly through the land, against (all) truth and reason, and said: "Who is superior to us in strength?" What! did they not see that Allah, Who created them, was superior to them in strength? But they continued to reject Our Signs! So We sent against them a furious Wind through days of disaster, that We might give them a taste of a Penalty of humiliation in this life; but the Penalty of a Hereafter will be more humiliating still: and they will find no help. Click for Detail (4) The last sign that Allah had shown to Pharaoh and people of Israel was that of blood: The Nile water was changed into blood. When Moses and his people drank the water, it was, for them, ordinary water. However, if any Egyptian filled his cup with the water, he discovered his cup full of blood. They hurried to Moses as usual, but as soon as everything returned to normal, they turned their backs on Allah |
| Though the storm has struck off many trees strong
It shows compassion to tiny grass over the ground The weakness of grass has been pitied by storm Oh heart! Do not boast of your strength any long The axe is not afraid how wide and strong is tree trunk It cuts it off in many pieces; no one can it stunt But an axe would never try on leaf its might It, against something hard would taste its bite |
| Why should a fire worry about burning heap of hay?
Butcher seeing 100 sheep in a herd doesn�t run away Before Face Itself humbled is all interpretation The sky is a closed vault because of its cognition Imagine the pulley on a well hanging there alone It turns and turns reflecting on power of reason (1) The working of this body is that of a shield The secret of soul inherent in it may not yield These winds but move with the Divine Order Like a grinding mill dependant upon canal water |
| The rise and fall in breathing, inhaling and exhalation
Is due to lustful lower soul what else could be the reason? The spirit transforms breath into vast �jeem� or �dall� tight (2) Sometimes it resolves to agree and sometimes tempt to fight Sometimes moves it to right sometimes to left it turns Now becoming a blissful garden, then a pricking thorn Similarly God turned for Pharaoh Water into fearsome blood (3) Also changing wind into ferocious dragon for people of Aad (4) Then the same wind had been for believers turned In �Ghazwa Ahzab� cause for treaty peace and concession |
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