You Are the Only Student You Have

[simnani]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

A very poignant poem i thought ....

From Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion


You Are the Only Student You Have


You are the only faithful student you have.
All the others leave eventually.

Have you been making yourself shallow
with making other eminent?

Just remember, when you're in union,
you don't have to fear
that you'll be drained.

The command comes to speak,
and you feel the ocean
moving through you.
Then comes, Be silent,
as when the rain stops,
and the trees in the orchard
begin to draw moisture
up into themselves.


Maulana Rume (Rehmatullahi ’Alaih)
Mathnawi V:3195-3219

[Akhtar Hussain]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

The adrenalin rush .... Sacrifice your short journey here, for in the hereafter you will have no fear

[Muhammad Yakub]

akhtarhussain said:

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

The adrenalin rush .... Sacrifice your short journey here, for in the hereafter you will have no fear

??

[Jamil]

simnani said:

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

A very poignant poem i thought ....

From Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion


You Are the Only Student You Have


You are the only faithful student you have.
All the others leave eventually.

Have you been making yourself shallow
with making other eminent?

Just remember, when you're in union,
you don't have to fear
that you'll be drained.

The command comes to speak,
and you feel the ocean
moving through you.
Then comes, Be silent,
as when the rain stops,
and the trees in the orchard
begin to draw moisture
up into themselves.


Maulana Rume (Rehmatullahi ’Alaih)
Mathnawi V:3195-3219

Jazakallah for sharing brother ...

[mashrafi]

[Fana fi Shaykh]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Wa'alaykum 'Assalam wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

SubhanAllah

Masha-Allah An Excellent POem.

JazakAllahu Khayrun

[glow=green,2,300]Yaa Rumi [/glow]

[Shiraz Ashrafi]

akhtarhussain said:

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

The adrenalin rush .... Sacrifice your short journey here, for in the hereafter you will have no fear

You get an adrenalin rush whenever you read Rumi, and thats taken into consideration its translated into english, imagine understanding and reading the original persian poetry

[aabassi]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

If you can understand persian then it may be possible for the salik to reach a ''station'' given that a lot of the masters of tasawwuf were particularly expressive in their native language.