18 December, 2006

75 - The Resurrection

Thou Allah! Thou Gracious! Thou Merciful! Thou Beloved!

  1. By my body and by my soul!
  2. Do the unbelievers not see that Allah is the source of all?
  3. Do they not see how he is the Lord of Science?
  4. Do they not see that there need be no grand design beyond the law of causation.
  5. Before the beginning of time and space, Allah was playing.
  6. Allah created Love like a potter would throw clay.
  7. Allah created Wonder, Earth, Water, Time, Space, Void.
  8. Allah created the law of causation, sublime and just.
  9. Once he set in motion the law of causation, Allah, contented, breathed himself upon himself.
  10. For a brief moment Allah played with forgetting - and in this moment our longing arose.
  11. We long to be reunited with Allah, for dimly we remember the time before.
  12. Man questions: "When is the Day of Resurrection?"
  13. When indeed will the dead walk again among the living?
  14. The day of Resurection is the day of Awakening.
  15. Awaken! Be not merely reborn but awaken to the nearness of Allah.
  16. Upon Awakening, one exclaims: "Here is my refuge! Here is my respite! Here lives sorrow in the bosom of the infinite!"
  17. Some faces, that Day, will beam in brightness and beauty;
  18. Looking towards their Lord;
  19. And some faces, that Day, will be sad and dismal;
  20. Looking towards their Lord;
  21. But all faces will be in Joy; in the radiance of their beloved.