Only one guiding reality | Surrendering to Divine Love
1.
One need not fall in love,
one must rise through love.
- Inayat Khan
The Smiling Forehead
Every day, every hour, every moment the light of Love illuminates and expands the way our heart sees, feels, and connects with the Presence of the Divine within all hearts, within all life, guiding and revealing the way we are seen and known by a creative Presence that is so beyond our comprehension, every description we ever form will dissolve and change as we share the words.
Any claim to stand apart from this creation process is laughable and impossible, for we are created, sustained by, and contained within this indefinable unlimitedness that dissolves theories as fast as the greatest minds can invent them. There is no power, no evil, no darkness that could stand against what cannot ever be imagined or contained or fixed, as everything created changes as we behold even a microscopic particle manifested by such beingness.
The ever unfolding miracle is how pure love flows and appears in this confusion as a gentle breathing and compassionate nearness emanating from the heart waves of our longing for love, which creates a being out of our own wholeness manifesting a spiritual likeness as an answer to our prayerful longing.
What can be created once can be multiplied to infinity, and a desire to live many lives can be granted in the blink of an eye. To be mercifully contained within a closed loop, where we sustain the illusion that everything stays the same is an equally possible and numbing choice.
Random thoughts throw us into changing realities without pattern or goal and leave us spinning in unknown dimensions of a randomly created existence, and like Alice in Wonderland, we wander aimlessly in the moving clouds of an errant dream.
Mind alone says God is a network of membranes, imagining we live in elongated bubbles that separate and create worlds beyond where our miniature minds can go. Is God playing with us as He unravels everything we ever believed or made?
Only one reality guides us into the arms of a Beloved that becomes our home beyond the morphing mania of our minds. It is surrendering to divine Love to grant our heart's deepest desire.
All else is vanity and delusion luring us away from the destiny for which we were created, to love and be loved in a blissful stream of unfolding wonder, holding the hand of a Beloved Friend that reveals the unending, ever changing miracle of life evolving in the light of love.
Any claim to stand apart from this creation process is laughable and impossible, for we are created, sustained by, and contained within this indefinable unlimitedness that dissolves theories as fast as the greatest minds can invent them. There is no power, no evil, no darkness that could stand against what cannot ever be imagined or contained or fixed, as everything created changes as we behold even a microscopic particle manifested by such beingness.
The ever unfolding miracle is how pure love flows and appears in this confusion as a gentle breathing and compassionate nearness emanating from the heart waves of our longing for love, which creates a being out of our own wholeness manifesting a spiritual likeness as an answer to our prayerful longing.
What can be created once can be multiplied to infinity, and a desire to live many lives can be granted in the blink of an eye. To be mercifully contained within a closed loop, where we sustain the illusion that everything stays the same is an equally possible and numbing choice.
Random thoughts throw us into changing realities without pattern or goal and leave us spinning in unknown dimensions of a randomly created existence, and like Alice in Wonderland, we wander aimlessly in the moving clouds of an errant dream.
Mind alone says God is a network of membranes, imagining we live in elongated bubbles that separate and create worlds beyond where our miniature minds can go. Is God playing with us as He unravels everything we ever believed or made?
Only one reality guides us into the arms of a Beloved that becomes our home beyond the morphing mania of our minds. It is surrendering to divine Love to grant our heart's deepest desire.
All else is vanity and delusion luring us away from the destiny for which we were created, to love and be loved in a blissful stream of unfolding wonder, holding the hand of a Beloved Friend that reveals the unending, ever changing miracle of life evolving in the light of love.
- Naomi
2.
"You will not enter the Garden of Divine Presence until you have faith and you will not have faith until you love one another." - Sacred Tradition of Islam (Muslim)"When a man asked the prophet, may God's peace and blessings be upon him, "O Messenger of God, when will the Day of Judgment be?", the Prophet asked him back, "What have you prepared for it?" he said, "I have not prepared for it a great deal of prayer, fasting nor charity, but I love God and His Messenger intensely," the Prophet said, "You will be with the ones whom you love." - Narrated by Bukhari
"Where are those who love each other for the sake of My glory? Today I will shelter them with My shade, as there is no shade today except My shade" - God Almighty speaks on the Day of Final Awakening (narrated by Muslim)
# Further:
. Love in Quran and Hadith
. Hadith Qudsi: and when I Love him
. Sufism And Love : One And The Same
. Mahabba
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| posted by Sadiq Alam @ 8:14 AM
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some how i was destined to find this site. i will be coming here more often now. i believe i have found a place for peace and serenity. thank you.
some how i was destined to find this site. i will be coming here more often now. i believe i have found a place for peace and serenity. thank you.
Very Beatiful. Thanks for posting Naomi's piece! So much we can learn from the two of you.
Love your way!
Sadiq.. its hard for me to find words to comment. u leave me speechless.
This is a story i read in Tazkirat al-Auliya ....thank you so much sadiq for sharing the deepest of god's secrets with all of us..
ahmad ibn harb
Ahmad-e Harb had for neighbour a Zoroastrian
named Bahram. Now this neighbour had sent a partner
out on a trading mission, and on the way thieves had
carried off all his goods.
“Rise up,” Ahmad called to his disciples when he
heard the news. “Such a thing has happened to our
neighbour. Let us go and condole with him. Even
though he is a Zoroastrian, yet he is a neighbour.”
When they reached the door of his house Bahram
was kindling his Zoroastrian fire. He ran forward and
kissed his sleeve. Bahram, thinking that perhaps they
were hungry, though bread was scarce made to lay the
table.
“Do not trouble yourself,” Ahmad said. “We have
come to sympathize. I heard that your goods had been
stolen.”
“Yes, that is so,” said Bahram. “But I have three reasons
to be grateful to God. First, because they stole
from me and not from someone else. Second, that they
took only a half. Third, that even if my worldly goods
are gone, I still have my religion; and the world comes
and goes.”
These words pleased Ahmad.
“Write this down,” he told his disciples. “The odor
of Islam issues from these words.” Then he added,
turning to Bahram, “Why do you worship this fire?”
“So that it may not burn me,” Bahram replied.
“Secondly, as today I have given it so much fuel,
tomorrow it will not be untrue to me but will convey
me to God.”
“You have made a great mistake,” commented
Ahmad. “Fire is weak and ignorant and faithless. All
the calculations you have based on it are false. If a
child pours a little water on it, it will go out. A thing
so weak as that—how can it convey you to One so
mighty? A thing that has not the strength to repel
from itself a little earth—how can it convey you to
God? Moreover, to prove it is ignorant: if you sprinkle
musk and filth upon it, it will burn them both and
not know that one is better than the other—that is
why it makes no distinction between filth and frankincense.
Again, it is now seventy years that you have
been worshipping it, and I have never worshipped it;
come, let us both put a hand in the fire, and you will
see that it burns both our hands. It will not be true to
you.”
These words struck the Zoroastrian to the heart.
“I will ask you four questions,” he said. “If you
answer them all, I will accept your Faith. Say: why did
God create men? And having created them, why did He
provide for them? Why does He cause them to die?
And having caused them to die, why does He raise
them up again?”
“He created them that they might be His servants,”
Ahmad replied. “He provided for them that they might
know Him to be the All-provider. He causes them to
die that they may know His overwhelming Power. He
makes them to live again that they may know Him to
be Omnipotent and Omniscient.”
As soon as Ahmad had finished, Bahram recited the
attestation.
“I bear witness that there is no god but God, and I
bear witness that Mohammad is the Apostle of God.”
Thereupon Ahmad cried aloud and fainted. Presently
he recovered consciousness.
“Why did you faint?” his disciples asked.
“The moment that he raised his finger in attestation,”
Ahmad replied, “a voice called to me in my
inmost heart. ‘Ahmad,’ the voice said, ‘Bahram was a
Zoroastrian for seventy years, but at last he believed.
You have spent seventy years in the Faith; now at the
end what will you have to offer?’”
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so true .....
The Divine Love is within us and we are within the Divine Love. To find the Divine Love, there is nowhere else to go but in. In us the Secret of Divine Love is hidden.
Hafiz says,
O heart! Be forever a beggar
in the kingdom of the beloved,
for they say fortune is best,
when it is everlasting!
Love is our eternal fortune!
It is the highest praise we can give our Beloved..to recognize and remember how beautifully we are loved!
How wonderful it is to gather here and remember together!
Love to All,
Naomi
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