The closest we can get to Allah in this Dunya is in Salah, particularly in prostration. We lower our knees and forehead to the earth, to the dirt the lowest of all elements. Not only does it instill humility in the depths of our souls but it also reminds us where we are from. We have been created from the earth, born in the wombs of our mothers, taking the journey of life and soon to taste death, returning us to the depths of the earth. Whereupon reality will become crystal clear…
Sunday, April 01, 2007
As salaamu alaikum
SubhanAllah. The following poem by Rabia al Basri is so beautiful...have a read:
My Greatest Need is You
By: Rabia al Basri
Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word
My choicest hours
Are the hours I spend with You --
O Allah, I can't live in this world
Without remembering You--
How can I endure the next world
Without seeing You ?
I am a stranger in Your country
And lonely among Your worshippers:
This is the substance of my complaint.
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