Priests And Scholars Parade

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Priests and scholars parade their learning to please the kings – 

of what avail is such erudition?

Reading scriptures is like boiling curdled milk in the false hope of obtaining butter. 

No more profitable to them is their chanting than is chirping to the mimicking chandoor.

If you bring inner comfort to a heart in distress, 

you will earn the merit of years of worship. 

They think they have acquired great learning; 

they call themselves sheikhs.

While they perform much outside worship, 

they do not know the manner in which temptation, 

like a thief,

enters to ravage their hearts. 

The soul that has attached herself to God is forever at peace — 

the smoke screen of illusion is lifted from her eyes.

Only they realize God,

O Bahu, 

whose hearts the world has not seduced.

Sufi ; (Sultan Bahu)

Way Of Heart

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Sufism, or the ‘Way of the Heart‘, is the spiritual aspect of Islam.. Sufism enriches and embraces the journey of our path to God. through the guidance of  its Masters.

The expressions of joy and love from a well-nourished spirit often manifest themselves through music, poetry and visual arts. 

Allah has angels roaming the earth to find people who are in Remembrance of God.

When they find a circle of such people, they call each other and encompass them in layers up to the first heaven.

Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad(Peace and Blessings be upon him)

There are many people with their eyes open whose hearts are shut.

What do they see?

Matter.

But someone whose love is alert, even if the eyes go to sleep, he or she will be waking up thousands of others.

If you are not one of those light-filled lovers,

restrain your desire-body’s intensity.

Put limits on how much you eat

and how long you lie down.

But if you are awake here in the chest,

sleep long and soundly.

Your spirit will be out roaming and working,

even on the seventh level.

Muhammad says, I close my eyes

and rest in sleep, but my love

never needs rest.

The guard at the gate drowses.

The king stays awake.

You have a king inside who listens

for what delights the soul.

That king’s wakefulness

cannot be described in a poem.

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Open For True Divine Love

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You can tell everyone how much you Love them,

but can u put action to those words for yourself?

Can u be with your own darkness,

sadness & pain & still source Love for you?

Can u Thank yourself for making it this far?

Can u Forgive yourself for all that needs to be Forgiven?

Can u honor yourself with the deepest truest Love

and therefore be trust worthy to u and

Open for true

Divine Love with another.

Thief In The Folds Of My Arms

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There is a thief in the folds of my arms.

Whom shall I tell?

There is a thief in the folds of my arms

He has, of late, escaped on the sky

No wonder there is a stir in the sky

And the world there is a hue and cry.

Whom shall I tell?

The Muslims are afraid of fire

And the Hindus dread the grave

Both of them have their fears

And keep on sharpening their staves.

Whom shall I tell?

Ramdas here and Fateh Muhammad there

This has kept them emitting spleen

Suddenly their quarrel came to an end

When someone else emerged on the scene.

Whom shall I tell?

There was furore in the flushed sky

It reached Lahore, the capital town

It was Shah Inayat who crafted the kite

It’s he who moves it up and down.

Whom shall I tell?

He who believes, he alone has known

Everyone else id floundering

All the wrangling came to an end

When Bulleh came to town.

Whom shall I tell?

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Sufism Winning Converts in America Thanks to Mystic’s Teachings

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THE SUFI AND THE TALE OF HALAKU

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A Sufi teacher was visited by a number of people of various faiths who said to him:

            ‘Accept as your disciples, for we see that there is no remaining truth in our religions, and we are certain that what you are teaching is the one true path’.

            The Sufi said:          

            ‘Have you not heard of the Mongol Halaku Khan and his invasion of Syria? Let me tell  you. The Vizier Ahmad of the Caliph Mustasim of Baghdad invited the Mongol to invade his master’s domains. When Halaku had won the battle for Baghdad, Ahmad went out to meet him, to be rewarded. Halaku said: “Do you seek your recompense?” and the Vizier answered, “Yes”.

            ‘Halaku told him:

            ‘ “You have betrayed your own master to me, and yet you expect me to believe that you will be faithful to me”. He ordered Ahmed to be hanged.

            ‘Before you ask anyone to accept you, ask yourself whether it is not simply because you have not followed the path of your own teacher. If you are satisfied about this, then come and ask to become disciples’.

Sufism

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What makes the Sufi? Purity of heart;
Not the patched mantle and the lust perverse
Of those vile earth-bound men who steal his name.
He in all dregs discerns the essence pure:
In hardship ease, in tribulation joy.
The phantom sentries, who with batons drawn
Guard Beauty’s palace-gate and curtained bower,
Give way before him, unafraid he passes,
And showing the King’s arrow, enters in

The Three Functions of the Perfected Man (Dervish)

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The Perfected Man of the Sufis has three forms of relationship with people. These vary with the condition of the people. The three manners are exercised in accordance with

(1) The form of belief which surrounds the Sufi;

(2) The capacity of students, who are taught in accordance with their ability to understand;

(3) A special circle of people who will share an understanding of the knowledge which is derived from direct inner experience.

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