Alkisah seorang kakek tua yang telah beruban dan gigi yang tanggal. Suatu hari, ada seseorang bertanya kepadanya,"Kakek, berapa usia anda sekarang?""Empat tahun", jawab sang kakek"Jangan bercanda, kakek sudah tampak begitu tua penuh dengan uban, bagaimanamungkin bisa berusia empat tahun. Menurut saya, usia kakek hampir memasuki 80tahun"."Ah, sungguh disesalkan! Kendati usia hampir memasuki 80 tahun, tapiselama tenggang waktu yang begitu panjang ini, saya lewati penuh kehampaan. Selama empat tahun belakangan ini, saya baru menginsafi hukumkebenaran dan terpanggil untuk membina diri dengan melayani sesama. Empat tahun ini saya hidup penuh makna dan berbahagia, maka saya katakan usiaku baru empat tahun", jelas sang kakek.
(Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi)
Prayer does not mean that you should be standing, bowing, and prostrating yourself all day long; the object is that the state that manifests itself during prayer should remain with you constantly, whether asleep or awake, whether writing or reading. In no state should you be void of the remembrance of God... Petition Him every moment for your needs and be not without remembrance of Him, for the remembrance of Him is strength; it is a wing to the bird of the spirit. If that goal is fully attained, it will be light upon light (Koran 24:35). If you are mindful of God, little by little your interior will be illuminated and you will attain release from the world.
(Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi, pp. 182-183) Anything that can be vocalized and has a beginning and an end is a "form", a "shell"; its "soul", however, is unqualifiable and infinite, without beginning and without end... We know that th...
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