For all we ought to have thought, have not thought For all we ought to have said,have not said For all we ought to have done,and have not done I pray Thee,God,for forgiveness… -The 13th Warrior-
Fikir itulah pelita bagi hati,yang mendapat kita ingat akan mati
Ingat-ingat serta fikir sehari-hari,di dalam kubur kita duduk seorang diri
Jika hidup kita dapat harta jenuh,itu akhir tinggal masuk dalam tanah
Ghalib ikut akan nafsu dengan hawa,dari masa tubuh muda sampai tua
Dari petang nanti pula akan pagi,lama-lama hingga sampai tanggal gigi
Rumah besar kampung luas ada ia,itu akhir tinggal jugak akan dia
Hai segala anakku sekalian,sungguh-sungguh jangan tinggalkan sembahyang
Demikian lagi zakat dan puasa,itu buatlah olehmu sentiasa
Dengan susah yang sedikit kamu dapat akan senang lama kamu di akhirat.
to my best my cousin who is getting married and those following suit in the near future…
Then Almitra spoke again and said, “And what of Marriage, master?”
And he answered saying:
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.
-Kahlil Gibran,The Prophet
Mathnavi I,1130-34,translation by William C. Chittick
-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
joyful-heartedness might appear through its opposite.
Hence hidden things become manifest through
opposites. But since God has no opposite, He remains hidden.
For the sight falls first upon light, then upon
color: Opposites are made manifest through opposites, like
white and black.
So you have come to know light through light’s
opposite: Opposites display opposites within the breast.
God’s light has no opposite within existence,
that through its opposite it might be made manifest.
Therefore our “eyes comprehend Him not, but He
comprehends the eyes” [Surah 6: 104]: Learn this from Moses
at
Mount Sinai*.
Know that form springs from meaning as the
lion from the thicket, or as voice and speech from thought.
Form was born from speech and then died. It
took its wave back to the sea.
Form comes out from Formlessness: Then it
returns, for “unto Him we are returning”
[Surah Baqarah, 2: 156]
* Rumi alludes here to Moses’ words in the Qur’ran: “Oh my Lord, show me, that I may behold Thee!” The verse continues, “Said He, `Thou shalt not see Me; but behold the mountain – if it stays fast in its place, then thou shalt see Me.’ And when his Lord revealed His theophany to the mountain, He made it crumble to dust; and Moses fell down swooning” (Surah 7: 143].
There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness.We are lutes, no more, no less.If the soundboxes stuffed full of anything, no music.If the brain and belly are burning clean with fasting,every moment a new song comes out of the fire.The fog clears, and new energy makes you runup the steps in front of you.Be emptier and cry like reed instruments cry.Emptier, write secrets with the reed pen.When you’re full of food and drink,Satan sits where your spirit should,an ugly metal statue in place of the Kaaba.When you fast, good habits gatherlike friends who want to help.Fasting is Solomon’s ring.Don’t give into some illusion and lose your power,but even if you have, if you’ve lost all will and control,they come back when you fast,like soldiers appearing out of the ground,pennants flying above them.A table descends to your tents, Jesus’ table.Expect to see it, when you fast,this tablespread with other food,better than the broth of cabbages.
-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
The lover who slept
A lover, tired out by the tears he wept,
Lay in exhaustion on the earth and slept;
When his beloved came and saw him there,
Sunk fast in sleep, at peace, without a care,
She took a pen and in an instant wrote,
Then fastened to his sleeve, a little note.
When he awoke and read her words his pain
(Increased a thousandfold) returned again -
“If you sell silver in the town,” he read,
“The market’s opened, rouse your sleepy head;
If faith is your concern, pray through the night -
Prostrate yourself until the dawning light;
But if you are a lover, blush with shame;
Sleep is unworthy of the lover’s name!
He watches with the wind throughout the day;
He sees the moon rise up and fade away -
But you do neither, though you weep and sigh;
Your love for me looks like an empty lie.
A man who sleeps before death’s sleep I call
A lover of himself, and that is all!
You’ve no idea of love, and may your sleep
Be like your ignorance – prolonged and deep!”
-Syaikh Fariduddin ‘Attar
Tupac
“Only God can judge me”
“Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes”
“They got money for wars but they can’t feed the poor”
“The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams”
“I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you.
So everything that I do that’s bad, I’m going to suffer for it.But in my heart, I believe what I’m doing… is right. So I feel like I ‘m going to heaven. I think heaven is just when you sleep, you sleep with a good conscience, you don’t have nightmares. Hell is when you sleep, the last thing you see is all the f*cked up things you did in your life and you just see it over and over again, cause you don’t burn. If that’s the case, it’s hell on earth cause bullets burn”
“My mama used to tell me if u can’t find somethin to live for, you best find somethin to die for”
“If we really are saying that rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you’re saying, it don’t matter that you didn’t make them die, it just matters that you didn’t save them”
“During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams”
-Tupac
The moving and instructional epitaph on Mevlana Rumi’s tomb reads:
‘When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.’
-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Learn from the Prophet an alchemy: Whatever God gives you, be content.
At the very moment you become content in affliction, the door of paradise will open.
If the messenger of heartache comes to you, embrace him like a friend!
A cruelty that comes from the Beloved — bestow upon it a warm welcome!
Then that heartache can throw off its veil, rain down sugar, and be gentle and heart-ravishing.
Seize the edge of heartache’s veil, for she is beautiful but deceptive.
In this lane, I am the whoremonger, I — I have pulled off the veil from every beautiful face.
They all put on ugly veils so that you will think they are dragons.
But I am fed up with my spirit — I worship dragons! If you are fed up with your spirit, then hear their calls of welcome!
Heartache can never find me without laughter — I call the pain the “cure.”
Nothing is more blessed than heartache, for its reward has no end.
If you do not show your manliness, you will find nothing. I will be silent, lest a mistake jump from my mouth.
-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
