1.  UNDAUNTING, UNCONQUERABLE SPIRIT

O! The spirit moving the entire planet earth

The spirit dwelling in every living being

Guiding to their respective destiny.

Which the Lord has decreed in their self.

 

The spirit embedded in each being

Plays its specific part, for joy or grief.

The joyous spirit for exuberance.

The sad spirit for melancholy and pain.

 

O! Daunting, Unconquerable lovely spirit!

You grant undefeatable strength

To those of deep faith in you

To dominate and conquer low individuals.

 

To enslave and rule over them

To also free those entangled and enmeshed.

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2.  PEACE WITHIN

One has to undergo severe

Mental and physical sufferings

Agony and turmoil’s in life

Before arriving at the Truth

A testing time, a period

Of severe anguish and pain.

On arriving at the Truth

You reach the stream

Of fresh, soothing waters

To quench the thirst

To gain moments of

Ecstasy, joy and Supreme –

Bliss, to bring peace within

And enlighten the dark soul.

 

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3.  MERCY AND LOVE

You need to remind of MERCY

To overcome fears of unknown

To combat the insurmountable.

Love is a candle of hope

To burn, to show light

Towards eternal life.

You need to stir your ship

In the ocean of life

To the safest shores

 

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4.  OUR OWN ENEMY

Our greatest enemy is ourselves

Our beliefs, our rites, our icons

Our behavior, our taboos

Our superstitions, our manners

Our ego, our anger, our jealousies

Our lust, our desires, our hates

Let us cast away, break away

From these shackles and chains

Release our hearts from them

To enable the springs of love

To flow, to glow and gush

Life always has a glimmer of hope

A warmth of innocence, and is also

Just, compassionate and merciful.

 

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5.  “I IN HIM, HE IN ME”

I am claimed by many.

My mother as her only son.

My father as his heir and successor.

My sister as a beloved brother.

My wife as her sole beloved.

My children as a loving father.

But, I, myself do not belong to any.

My ‘Self’ is a self which is a traveler,

In the path of the Unknown.

In search of the ONE who has

Put the eternal spirit in me.

I in Him, He in me.

From Him I have come.

Unto Him, I shall return.

 

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6.  HOW TO MEET HIM?

Let us cleanse ourselves

Of all the impurities

The muck, slurry, slush

From the inner soul.

Let us embellish ourselves

Of that, which is adorable to Him?

Love, affection, silence and charity

Compassion and magnanimity

Let us be constant in this service.

Work again and again to

Gain His favor and Cherish Him

In the realms of the heart.

Let there be no let up or short comings

In our service, till we meet Him

 

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7.  WHERE DOES ALLAH RESIDE?

Tell me where does Allah reside?

In Kaaba, in Mosque, in Temple, in Church,

In Dargas, in ‘Maqbeeras’, Where? Where?

Does He come to you when you wear?

Green, black, white, saffron turban

With ‘Qurkha’? with long beards, long

Jhubbas? Does He like you moving

About with ‘Tasbee’ in hand? With

Tattoo mark on your brow and all over

your body bare? How does He come?

Where does He reside? Have you

Discovered Him? Have you found Him?

How long have you searched for Him?

Please give me His address?

Know now my dear loving brother that

He is in the mind with crystalline purity!

He is in the heart with absolute compassion

And total MERCY! He is on the TRUTHFUL

TONGUE. He is in the eyes with shame.

He is on the hands of charity.

He is in every cell of the body

where resides the love of

Prophet Muhammad.

Everyone should

become Muhammadi

in ‘TRUE SPIRIT’

 

“Qurka: cloak

“Tasbee”: Rosary

 

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8.  HE

All is matter, matter is all.

So also ‘All is One, One is God’.

There is no other than Allah.

There is nothing other than Him.

In the essences of all

Contingent beings.

In all forms, all His

Creations, He transcends.

There is nothing other than Him.

All is He, He is all.

Everything emanates from His Mercy.

Yet all His creations are not Him;

But they are not ‘other than Him’;

The world is the showdown

Of that ‘Supreme Being.’

A reflection of His Effulgence

The glorified and pure nature

In man is His Essence.

He has made the Sun, Moon, Stars

As His indicator and as witness.

They indicate Him as His Shadow.

When He withdraws to Himself

And the Shadow He has projected,

Than everything that appears

From Him, goes back to Him.

For it is He, no one else.

‘From Him it comes, to Him it returns.’

He is all Merciful, all Compassionate.

In every particle, in every atom

In every being, in everything

His essence and qualities

Reflect His Being, His Glory.

There is neither contraction

Neither there is a separation.

“He is closer than the Jugular Vein.”

You call Him, He answers your call.

You love him, He loves you.

You adore Him, He adores you.

You put one step in His Direction.

He puts ten steps in your direction.

Mercy begets mercy, Love begets love.

All is in Him, He is all.

The white has multiple colors

The ‘VIBGYOR’, the rainbow.

They all join again to become ONE,

The ‘VIBGYOR’, rainbow disappears

Only the White screen remains.

He is transcendent, Omnipotent.

A banyan tree, a mango tree

Bears within a fruit and seed.

The seed bears within the tree

All emerges from Him.

All multiplicity is illusion

Real essence is only ONE.

Essence is revealed in the forms

Of Names and that multiplicity

Is intended to be witnessed

In the essence of the ONE.

In every object of worship

There is a reflection of the Reality.

Worship Him and turn towards the Reality;

The Real, the Truth, the ‘Haqiqa’.

In all the Reality, His light

His ‘Noor’, Mohammed* is imbibed.

In Mohammed* is His Light, His ‘Noor.’

* Peace be upon him.

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9.  HOW TO REACH THE TRUTH?

Please tell me as to why it is difficult to

Reach the TRUTH and so easy to lie?

Truth is a steep mountain, slippery

And difficult to climb. It requires courage

Of conviction. Faith is its foundation

and certainty is its wheels. Love is

Its engine and prayers is its petrol.

It has to confront obstacles, rough

Weather. It requires sacrifice. It has

To face hunger and thirst. Sometimes

It loses face and has to face humiliation,

insults. TRUTH is let down by one and all.

It has to stand above like a scare-crow

in a rice field. TRUTH is always simple

and most humble. It fulfills all its promises

and oaths. It is never deceptive neither it

Camouflages. It is open-minded and open –

Hearted, never secretive or suspicious. It is

generous and hospitable and charitable.

It is quick in forgiveness and in repentance

It is fearless and crystal-clear. It shed tears for

Sufferers. One who is truthful reaches ETERNAL

Light and LORD i.e. Reality.

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