of separation that draws us Home (Asal Maqan). Only when we are in physical body, we can reach Reality. The manifest (Roop) is an essential part of our journey to the unmanifest (Arrop). Only through limitation of being, we can reach the infinite ocean of non-being. The combination of the two worlds, of being and non-being creates the path.
Lovers are born into this world in order to get free from duality and dissolve into unity. In the world of existence, we realize our own non-existence. Through the opposites, we come to know Him, who has no opposite. The inner awareness of union awakens us to the pain of separation. The friction of the inner and the outer worlds ignites the flame of passion, and thus the deepest desire of the soul is born into consciousness. We do not know for whom we long. We may call Him Lord or Beloved or Ya Mowla, but heart knows the truth of this unnamable essence.
Words belong to this world, the manifest, the created world in which we are separate in which we long. We can only speak of the separation. The experience of beloved is always beyond any expression. But again without words, how could we proclaim that He is beyond? So now my fellow brothers and sisters, there is a silence that speaks directly to the heart that tells of His touch. Yet we are not all heart, we need to drag the rest of ourselves to the brink, to include the mind and its need to understand….(Sorry, I can’t explain…). We need to praise Him even though we know our praise is inadequate, that nothing can compare or come closer to Him. Through words the mind can come to know that it can not know, understand that it can not understand. Then it will give itself more freely to the unknown, lose itself more readily in the silence of love.
In meditation, we become lost in union, but then we need to live this oneness in our own individual life. We need to live in a state of separation (Duniya) in order to bring His oneness into the world. Accepting oneness also means to accept separation. The consciousness of oneness co-exists with the consciousness of duality. Separation is a play of light on the waters of oneness. The ego remains with all of its limitations and difficulties. We need these difficulties in order to keep our feet on the ground and live a balanced everyday life. Surrender to separation(means to live in this world as well) for His sake, we reflect the light of His oneness into the market place of the world. And that is the true meaning of balance between Deen And Duniya.
May Mowla give us Haqiqati Samaj.
Nizar Ali (Muniver)
Esoteric understanding of balance between Deen and Duniya
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Esoteric understanding of balance between Deen and Duniya
The Divine love seems madness to the mind as it has its own logic. The knowing of heart is an experience in which there is no distinction between knower and that, which is known. While the mind can only understand through separation, the separation of subject and object, the heart knows through oneness. The knowing of heart is beyond duality. We should know this separation as Duniya while the oneness is described as Deen.
We should learn to walk between the two worlds (Deen and Duniya). Outwardly we remain in the world of multiplicilty (Duniya) while inwardly the lover becomes more and more immersed in unity or oneness (Deen). In Duniya (outwardly), the lover is God’s servant looking always towards her Lord while inwardly (Deen), the heart loses itself in the ocean of divine love. Living in the two worlds, we bring the secret of heart into everyday life. The demands of everyday life require that His servant not to be lost in the clouds but reflects the need of the time. ( Duniya ma rahi ne momin na kaam kero. Momin no vepaar parn ibadat chhey.. Kalam-e-Imam e Mubin… Firman of Sultan Mohammed Shah). By living both in Deen and Duniya and embracing them within the heart, we turn away from duality and the dominance of ego. The heart reveals the hidden face of life’s contradictions in which the deeper purpose of the soul becomes manifest. If we reject the experiences that life brings, we reject the possibility for growth and inner development. If we accept life’s difficulties and dilemmas with love, we actually co-operate with their deeper purpose. If we try to escape the opposites and misbalancing of both lives, we are caught more firmly in their grip. Love frees us both from the outer world and from ourselves. The mind first becomes confused and then surrender to the heart, the ego resists and is then overwhelmed by a power greater than itself.
The path to the beyond (hereafter) begins here, in this physical world as human being. It is the experience of separation that draws us Home (Asal Maqan). Only when we are in physical body, we can reach Reality. The manifest (Roop) is an essential part of our journey to the unmanifest (Arrop). Only through limitation of being, we can reach the infinite ocean of non-being. The combination of the two worlds, of being and non-being creates the path.
Lovers are born into this world in order to get free from duality and dissolve into unity. In the world of existence, we realize our own non-existence. Through the opposites, we come to know Him, who has no opposite. The inner awareness of union awakens us to the pain of separation. The friction of the inner and the outer worlds ignites the flame of passion, and thus the deepest desire of the soul is born into consciousness. We do not know for whom we long. We may call Him Lord or Beloved or Ya Mowla, but heart knows the truth of this unnamable essence.
Words belong to this world, the manifest, the created world in which we are separate in which we long. We can only speak of the separation. The experience of beloved is always beyond any expression. But again without words, how could we proclaim that He is beyond? So now my fellow brothers and sisters, there is a silence that speaks directly to the heart that tells of His touch. Yet we are not all heart, we need to drag the rest of ourselves to the brink, to include the mind and its need to understand….(Sorry, I can’t explain…). We need to praise Him even though we know our praise is inadequate, that nothing can compare or come closer to Him. Through words the mind can come to know that it can not know, understand that it can not understand. Then it will give itself more freely to the unknown, lose itself more readily in the silence of love.
In meditation, we become lost in union, but then we need to live this oneness in our own individual life. We need to live in a state of separation (Duniya) in order to bring His oneness into the world. Accepting oneness also means to accept separation. The consciousness of oneness co-exists with the consciousness of duality. Separation is a play of light on the waters of oneness. The ego remains with all of its limitations and difficulties. We need these difficulties in order to keep our feet on the ground and live a balanced everyday life. Surrender to separation(means to live in this world as well) for His sake, we reflect the light of His oneness into the market place of the world. And that is the true meaning of balance between Deen And Duniya.
May Mowla give us Haqiqati Samaj.
Nizar Ali (Muniver)
The Divine love seems madness to the mind as it has its own logic. The knowing of heart is an experience in which there is no distinction between knower and that, which is known. While the mind can only understand through separation, the separation of subject and object, the heart knows through oneness. The knowing of heart is beyond duality. We should know this separation as Duniya while the oneness is described as Deen.
We should learn to walk between the two worlds (Deen and Duniya). Outwardly we remain in the world of multiplicilty (Duniya) while inwardly the lover becomes more and more immersed in unity or oneness (Deen). In Duniya (outwardly), the lover is God’s servant looking always towards her Lord while inwardly (Deen), the heart loses itself in the ocean of divine love. Living in the two worlds, we bring the secret of heart into everyday life. The demands of everyday life require that His servant not to be lost in the clouds but reflects the need of the time. ( Duniya ma rahi ne momin na kaam kero. Momin no vepaar parn ibadat chhey.. Kalam-e-Imam e Mubin… Firman of Sultan Mohammed Shah). By living both in Deen and Duniya and embracing them within the heart, we turn away from duality and the dominance of ego. The heart reveals the hidden face of life’s contradictions in which the deeper purpose of the soul becomes manifest. If we reject the experiences that life brings, we reject the possibility for growth and inner development. If we accept life’s difficulties and dilemmas with love, we actually co-operate with their deeper purpose. If we try to escape the opposites and misbalancing of both lives, we are caught more firmly in their grip. Love frees us both from the outer world and from ourselves. The mind first becomes confused and then surrender to the heart, the ego resists and is then overwhelmed by a power greater than itself.
The path to the beyond (hereafter) begins here, in this physical world as human being. It is the experience of separation that draws us Home (Asal Maqan). Only when we are in physical body, we can reach Reality. The manifest (Roop) is an essential part of our journey to the unmanifest (Arrop). Only through limitation of being, we can reach the infinite ocean of non-being. The combination of the two worlds, of being and non-being creates the path.
Lovers are born into this world in order to get free from duality and dissolve into unity. In the world of existence, we realize our own non-existence. Through the opposites, we come to know Him, who has no opposite. The inner awareness of union awakens us to the pain of separation. The friction of the inner and the outer worlds ignites the flame of passion, and thus the deepest desire of the soul is born into consciousness. We do not know for whom we long. We may call Him Lord or Beloved or Ya Mowla, but heart knows the truth of this unnamable essence.
Words belong to this world, the manifest, the created world in which we are separate in which we long. We can only speak of the separation. The experience of beloved is always beyond any expression. But again without words, how could we proclaim that He is beyond? So now my fellow brothers and sisters, there is a silence that speaks directly to the heart that tells of His touch. Yet we are not all heart, we need to drag the rest of ourselves to the brink, to include the mind and its need to understand….(Sorry, I can’t explain…). We need to praise Him even though we know our praise is inadequate, that nothing can compare or come closer to Him. Through words the mind can come to know that it can not know, understand that it can not understand. Then it will give itself more freely to the unknown, lose itself more readily in the silence of love.
In meditation, we become lost in union, but then we need to live this oneness in our own individual life. We need to live in a state of separation (Duniya) in order to bring His oneness into the world. Accepting oneness also means to accept separation. The consciousness of oneness co-exists with the consciousness of duality. Separation is a play of light on the waters of oneness. The ego remains with all of its limitations and difficulties. We need these difficulties in order to keep our feet on the ground and live a balanced everyday life. Surrender to separation(means to live in this world as well) for His sake, we reflect the light of His oneness into the market place of the world. And that is the true meaning of balance between Deen And Duniya.
May Mowla give us Haqiqati Samaj.
Nizar Ali (Muniver)
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Very well said. Hope your work is read by as many members possible. What you are stating is your state of mind and only those with similar mind-set will be effeciently able to grasp the underlying message. I think we should create awareness on the significance or Farmans and rememberance among our youth, which Mowlana Hazar Imam himself frequently reiterates.