Different Silence

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

This search of ours,

the seeking of true knowledge,

the beginning is marked by silence,

silence out of sheer bewilderment and incomprehension,

the ending will also be marked by silence,

but not of bewilderment,

it is the "a-ha" moment,

where words are no longer necessary.

indeed words can impede our finding,

be silent.

don't let the questioning

interfere with the answering.

rushing does not make things get done any faster.

Taslim,

nak pun tidak, tak nak pun tidak,

cepat pun tidak, lambat pun tidak.

yang bergerak,

mana sama dengan yang digerakkan.

The Joy that Wounds

I knew that God well when love flashed before me.

It gives me strength by night and day, and show what lies ahead.

In me are flames, in me is fuel, in me is smoke.

I only found my Beloved, when love made me aware.

you are drop, and the ocean.

you are kindness, you are anger,

you are sweetness, you are poison.

raw you are, and cooked too you are,

oh, do not leave me quite so raw.

without hope i cannot cope.

where do you come from? and from where do man's joy and sorrow begin?

oh you, straying heart, just come!

oh you, aching liver, just come!

Oh love, the joy that wounds!

Clueless

You know nothing of yourself and in this state

you will know that when you were alive you were dead,

and only thought yourself alive.

Stranger

Love is a stranger and speaks in a strange tongue.

how do you explain something with words, when it begins where language ends?

words are just imaginings.

superfluous.

empty.

Journey to HEaven

"Our death is our wedding with eternity.
What is the secret? 'God is One.'
The sunlight splits when entering the windows of the house.
This multiplicity exists in the cluster of grapes;
It is not in the juice made from the grapes.
For he who is living in the Light of God,
The death of the carnal soul is a blessing.
Regarding him, say neither bad nor good,
For he is gone beyond the good and the bad."

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