Our relationship with the Prophet ﷺ is not one of a living thing with the dead, but a dead thing with living. As He ﷺ is alive, but our hearts are dead!

Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad - life of Mawlana Rumi

Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad - life of Mawlana Rumi

First I was raw Then I was cooked And then burnt

I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth, O someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly Laughing –Now!

The daring of minds ends in shackles, Most of mankind’s undertakings are folly. Our souls are indifferent to what our bodies do, And the sum of our lives is affliction and harm. We did not benefit from our lifelong search Except in collecting what these said, and those. Atop many a mountain men have triumphed And gone, while the mountains remained. How many men and states have we seen Goaded to disappear one and all.