Lesson 10
Eternal manifestation is the
attribute of the BeLoved. And concealment (hiding to ambush) is the
attribute of the lover [1]. Because
the face of the BeLoved appears in the mirror of the lover [2] and in fact, Self-Manifestation
becomes an Edict from the BeLoved and in the matter of langue
'manifestating' and 'being-present/seen' are similar words:
Begat my
mother her father such shocking matter
And my
father an old man under the surrogates’ care [3]
Precisely here “I” and “us”
come about, “you” and “it/he/she” uncovered [4]. As long as the lover presented with the
reflection of the Beloved’s beauty in the mirror of shapes and faces
then: Pleasure intermixes with pain, happiness with sorrow, fear and
hope circling around, depravation and expansion contiguously wide
spread. But if the garment of shapes and physical designs undressed and
thefore the lover in the ocean of One-ness buoy: Lover has no
consciousness about suffering or bliss, not cognizant of hope or
anxiety, not knowing fear and aspiration, no past no future. The lover
is drowned in the past-less/future-less ocean, collectively lain in
present-tense waving over present (again and again in present-tense):
Anyone falling into this salty marsh shall be lost in It
I know not
other than this tumultuous salty sea [5]
Moreover the absence of fear
is attributed to the Hijab (cloak) or Lack thereof. Because Hijab is a
barrier between two things but HERE (ocean of One-ness as above) [6] there is no possibility other than
only One and lover fears not the pulling of the Hijab, fear of lack of
Hijab is for someone that dreads the august luster and splendor of the
Majesty burning him, "One that is fire, how can it be burnt? [7]”:
Non-existence
is the same for Kaabah and synagogue [8]
Shadow is
the same for hell and paradise
When the
dawn breaks escape the stars [9]
Equal are
the drunk and the sober alike
Once the
person beholds his own self’s essence clear
What
acceptance and rejection? What good and evil?
Light burns not the light, but
it would intermix with it. Therefore One-ness is not to be feared, no
hope no bliss no suffering. Once Abu-Yazid was asked, “How is your
morning?” he responded, “There is no morning or evening with me”:
The place
where I am, no dawn or dusk
No hope or
fear, no status or rank
“Indeed dawn and dusk is for
the one who worships the (physical) attributes and I find/own no
attributes with me”.
[1] Lover whether wants or not, with or without volition,
always is in a hiding, poised to prance upon the Beloved. You sense
that within you, constantly yearning to love something with immense
measure. And when you find no physical being for that purpose, you
search to love abstract concepts e.g. bravery, political convictions.
[2] A flower loves the Creator/BeLoved and it is this love
that brings it to live to push through the soil towards its love! And
at the same time this flower is also a mirror reflecting the love and
beauty of the Creator upon all eyes. Self-Manifestation or the Creator
to reflect off the lover like a mirror can be heard from Hadith Qudsi
25:
Narrated by Bukhari. Many
ignorant people called Araqi a Kafir (disbeliever) because he talks
about Allah manifesting It Self through creation and in specific human
beings. And indeed the Prophetic Langue has room for such expressions
of Orf (getting deeply to know someone/BeLoved).
[3] This poem expresses the ‘confusion’ of the cosmos,
which we human beings have made non-ambiguous through our ignorance.
Araqi narrates, that he is no different that his father, so his father
was begotten by Araqi’s mother and under the breasts of the surrogate
mothers was his father or it was Araqi no difference. This poetic
expression is to emphasize the meaning of the Hadith Qudsi above: If
someone loves the Creator, then person’s limbs become Allah, his ears
become Allah. These are poetic Prophetic expressions. They do not mean
that Allah becomes a hand for someone! During the Prophet’s life the
Arabs spoke through metaphors on all subjects and this is a metaphor
left for us through the Nabi PBUH. Araqi merely attempts to awaken the
hearts for us. Araqi screams into our eyes: Hey! If you do not love
Allah, then your hand is a hand, if you love Allah your hand is Allah
like a mirror reflecting. May Allah give me a sublime language to
explain this more… INSHALLAH
[4] Man is the source which manufactures "I vs. you"… the
ambiguity that rules the universe like the wave-particle ambiguity, into a precise and absolute "I
vs. you". Araqi many hundreds of years ago looked deep inside him and
saw there is no "I vs. you" or "I vs. us". This ambiguity he sees as a
subtle hint towards the Creator. This ambiguity is what making the
universe not detached from the Creator.
[5] Araqi makes a great point: When there is love there is
always loss. Where there is pleasure there is also suffering, the
pleasure of a child comes with the pain of mother’s delivery. There is
life filled with sweetness and then the bitter taste of death. He is
telling us that it is we that make these things apart; in reality they
are dissolved into one thing! Which the term One-ness comes from. Like
all swimming and living in a salty sea.
[6] Hijab or cloak is what separates things from each
other. Once this Hijab is tore down things are not separate like
before, fuzzy mixed into each other and it is then/when the Sufi sees
all things clear and prepares to behold the BeLoved Creator.
[7] Araqi uncovers a gem: We fear to see the majesty of
the Creator and that is why out of this fear of self-imposed ignorance
we tend to separate things from each other i.e. we drop a Hijab (cloak)
between ourselves and the Creator. The one who loves the Beloved
Creator like a fire is not afraid of being burnt itself, is able to
behold and draw closer to his or her Creator/designer with no conscious
or unconscious fear.
[8] Kaabah is the first house of worship presently in
Makkah Saudi Arabia. The act of 'being' for Makkah and another
non-Islamic temple is the same and so is their destruction and
non-existence. It is 'us' that make the distinction.
[9] When the sun rises its light overcomes the light of
the night stars or so we think. Those stars are still there but we
cannot see them since we use the Sun as a Hijab (cloak) to not see. But
think for a second, the Sun is itself yet another star perhaps smaller
than the other night stars!? Similarly, one who is dunk consider the
sober as drunk but in reality it is the same human being drunkenness
makes no difference. Again a cloak we place on a person to make
partitions.
Background: Double Slit Experiment
© 2003-2002,
By Dara Shayda