Fringe (Jelaluddin Rumi)

You wreck my shop and my house and now my heart,
But how can I run from what gives me life?
I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the cut of madness!
Tear open my shame and show the mystery.
How much longer do I have to fret with self-restraint and fear?
Friends, this is how it is: we are fringe sewn inside the lining of a robe.
Soon we will be loosened, the binding thread torn out.
The Beloved is a lion.
We are the lame deer in his paws. Consider
what choices we have! (Rumi)

Sky Circles (Jelaluddin Rumi)

The way of love isn’t a subtle argument.
The door there is devastation!
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom-
How do they learn that?
They fall, and falling they are given wings!

No man is an Island!

No man is an Island,
Entire of itself.
Each is the piece of the continent
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
or of thine friends were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind
Therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for you!
(John Donne)

Aqwaal-e Mola Ali (R.A)

• Apnay Bachon ko woh taaleem na do jo tumharay walidein ne tum ko di hai, kyunke un ka zamana tumharaya zamanay se mukhtalif hai.


• Apni Qismat per wohi rotay hain jin ko sajdon mein rona nahi aata.


• Insaan kailiye doosron ki muhabbat teen cheezon se barhti hai; Salaam kernay se, doosron ko jaga denay se, aur sahi naam se pukaaranay se.


• Aay Khuda jab mein ne tujh se nahi manga to tu ne mujhay ataa kiya to yeh kaisay ho sakta hai k mein tujh se magoon aur tu mujhay ataa na keray


• Ziada nafa pohunchanay wala ilm woh hai jis per amal kiya jaey. Sub se fazeelat wala amal woh hai jis mein ikhlaas ho. Aur sub se behtar Ma’arifat yeh hai ke insaan apnay nafs ko pehchaanay.


• Sub se buri sachchai chughal khori hai, sub se bura keena deen ke imamon ke saath keena hai, aur sub se bari khiyaanat ummat ke saath khiyaanat hai.

Fuel For Thought!

• There are two ways of spreading light____To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.(Edith Warton)


• Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans. The moment one definitely commits oneself, the Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never have otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, which no one could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do. Begin it! Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. (Goethe)


• Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. (John Dykes)


• I still feel I got to prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail! But I like that. I need to be hated. (Howard Stein)


• Sometimes life’s shadows are caused by our standing in our own sunlight. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)


• The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today; let us move forward with strong and active faith. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)


• Desire is the standing point of all achievements, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. (Napoleon Hill)


• There is no happiness if the things we believe are different from the things we do! (Freya Stark)


• Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away! (Unknown)

Hamein Khud apnay tajassus se hain Gilay kiya kiya.. (Amjad Islam Amjad)

Hamein khud apnay tajassus se hain gilay kiya kiya

Woh baat us mein nahi thi jo us ke naam mein thi

tujhay talashna goya ufaq ko choona tha

wohi safar mein thi haalat ke jo qayaam mein thi

Nigah-e-Khaas jo hoti to dekhta koi

woh aik baat jo teri nigaah-e-Aam mein thi

Chamak raha tha hawaaon ki aasteen mein lahu

idhar zameen bahaaron ke ahtamaam mein thi

Yeh kis ne loot liye qaaflay sitaaron ke

sahar ki tegh to Amjad abhi niyaam mein thi!

The Soul of Prayer (Rumi)

Jelaluddin Rumi was once asked “Is there any way to God nearer than the ritual prayer?” “No” He replied. “But prayer doesn’t consist in forms alone. Formal prayer has a beginning and an end, like all forms and bodies and everything partakes of speech and sound; but the soul is unconditional and infinite. It has neither beginning nor end. The Prophets have shown the true nature of prayers. Prayer is the drowning and unconsciousness of the soul, so that all these forms remain without. At that time there is no room for even Gabriel, who is Pure spirit. One may say that the man who prays in this fashion is exempt from all religious obligations, since he is deprived of his reason. Absorption in Divine Unity is the soul of prayer.

Quotations

• “If a man hasn’t discovered something that he would die for, he isn’t fit to live.” (Martin Luther King)


• “How a minority, Reaching majority, Seizing authority, hates a minority” (Leonard H. Hobbins)


• “Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror” (Antonio Porchio)


• “The best mirror is an old friend” (German Proverb)


• “Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal.” (Lionel Trilling)


• “Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man doesn’t know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.” (Seneca)


• “It is the heart that experiences God, not the reason!”


• “Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is one’s self.” (Oscar Wilde)