25 - Foundation
Thou Allah! Thou Gracious! Thou Merciful! Thou Beloved!
- Around me the Masters of the Ages are closer than even my own eyebrows.
- I lay my footsteps where theirs have fallen,
- I submit to the memories that still linger in the air,
- I seek to make out their forms in the heat and the distance.
- Precious human life, once gained, Has great potential but is easily lost.
- Even devoted to Allah, yielding my eyes to his every glance, death is quick to strike.
- Into this greatest of illusions we draw our veils with us.
- Into this greatest of illusions we draw the the seeds we have sown.
- Into this greatest of illusions we draw the the unripened fruits of the seeds we have sown.
- Discard the veils, sow good seed, trust in the truth of Allah, the one.
- There will be no bestowal of amnesty, no reprieve.
- Your every breath, continual rememberence of Allah.
- Your every glance, continual rememberence of Allah.
- Your every thought, continual rememberence of Allah.
- You need not fear the senses, they are Allah's!
- You need not fear the mind, it is Allah's.
- Do not mistake your experience as your own for that is the crux of illusion, that is the gate of samsara.
- Realize the veils of illusion;
- Cultivate wisdom;
- Cultivate the mind of awareness.
- Live in accord with the law of causation.
- Train your mind, body and spirit.
- Awaken!
- Face the dawn of Awakening and set to work, your journey is just begun.
