Company - Ba-gul Nashistan
Company or more specifically suhbah is a phenomenon whose effects are difficult to describe. There is this teacher of mine who always says that 'environment is silent speech' and I always used to think how right he was... The effects and impacts are so subtle that one does not even notice how one gets transformed without noticing it ever. There are few verses by Shaykh Sa'adi (rahimahullah) that I came across in a book called, Bayt ki haqeeqat . I am compelled to write them on my blog. The poetry is extremely beautiful and rhythmic. Someone who has ever experienced such company would testify to the truth contained in the verses of this hikaayat . Gili khushbooi dar hamaam roozi Raseed az dast-e-mahboobi ba-dastam Be-oo guftam keh mushki ya 'abeeri Keh az boo-e dil-aaweez e tu mastam Be-oo gufta, man gil-e naacheez boodam Wa-leekin muddati ba-gul nashistam Jamaal-e hum-nasheen dar man asar kard Wa gar na man hamaan khaakam keh hastam [One day in a hamaam* , I g...
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Indeed!
Here it is (i fear if it is an accurate transliteration)
"dil darya samondaroon dunh-gay, kon dilan diyan janay hoo
viche baerry (ships), viche jherray, vichay vanjh (chappu) moohanay hoo
chaudaan (14) tabaq dillay (dil) day andar, tanbu (tent) wagan (like) taanay hoo
Joi dil da mehram howay sui Rab pichanay hoo"
(The expositioner relates the last verse of this rubai with this (i guess its a verse from Quran)Man arafa nafsah faqad arafa Rabbih. Can you explain to me not only meaning but how to know or execute this message so as to know the Ultimate Reality??. Thanks!)
This is a hadith of the Prophet SallAllahoAlayheWassallam. Let me quote a passage from Mawlana Rum's (RA) discourses, Fihi ma Fih:
The Prophet said, "He who knows himself knows his Lord." Just as this copper astrolabe mirrors the heavens, man's existence is God's astrolabe - 'We have honoured the children of Adam'. When God causes a man to have knowledge of Him and be familiar with Him, moment by moment he observes the theophanies of God and His ineffable Beauty from the astrolabe of his own existence. That Beauty wll never be absent from his mirror."
-Faiz is Faiz!
This dialouge by Rumi is very deep indeed. But I couldn't understand it without having a clear understanding of the earlier mentioned terms. Thanks. My pleasure.
Astrolabe, however, is "A medieval instrument, now replaced by the sextant, that was once used to determine the altitude of the sun or other celestial bodies." (answers.com)
I didn't quote the discourse at length. Actually just before what I have already written, Mawlana himself says:
Man is the astrolabe of God; but it requires an astronomer to know the astrolabe. If a vegetable-seller or a greengrocer should possess the astrolabe, what benefit would he derive from it? With that astrolabe what would he know of the movements of the circling heavens and the stations of the planets, their influences, transits and so forth? But in the hands of the astronomer the astrolabe is of great benfit, for 'He who knows himslef knows his Lord,'...That Beauty wll never be absent from his mirror.
tajjalliyaat-e Ilaahi, I think would be a better term for theophanies.
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Thanks a lot for the elaboration.
humble regards.