Monthly Archives: September 2010

Sep 24

I find myself being content with the unanswered questions that are floating around me.

I stand with my bags packed the wind blows and ruffles my hair with unanswered questions. I think should I search for the answers? I look around and pick up my bags and walk as the question marks disappear in the fall.

The Heart and Mind have agreed that the love is pure and real

My cards were dealt and I played my hand to the best of my abilities

No fighting with Love (lessoned learned from a past experience)

No judgement on other parties that played a role in Love’s hands

(Love is unpredictable it may leave one and remain with another)

We all have our reasons how we grow according to the seasons

Love is here to teach us.

Sep 23

Todays Morning Reading

WOMAN by Rumi

The Prophet said that woman prevails exceedingly over the wise and intelligent,
(While), on the other hand, ignorant man prevail over woman, for in them the fierceness of the animal is imprisoned.
They lack tenderness, kindness, and affection, because animality predominates over their (human) nature.
Love and tenderness are human qualities; anger and lust are animal qualities.
She (woman) is a ray of God, she is not that (earthly) beloved: she is creative, you must say she is not created. (Mathnawi, I/2531-35)

Inasmuch as He created her (the woman) that he (Adam) might take comfort in her, how can Adam be parted from Eve?
Though he (the husband) be Rustam son of Zal and greater than Hamza (in valour), as regards authority he is his old woman’s (his wife’s) captive.
He (the Prophet), to Whose words the (whole) world was enslaved (obedient), used to cry, “Speak to me, O Humayra!”
The water prevailed over (extinguished) the fire by its dread onset, (but) the fire makes it seethe when it (the water) is screened (hidden in the cauldron).
When a cauldron comes between (them), O king, it (the fire) annihilates the water and converts it into air.
If outwardly you are dominating your wife, like the (fire-quenching) water, (yet) inwardly you are dominated and are seeking (the love of) your wife.
This is characteristic of Man (alone): to the (other) animals love is wanting, and that (want of love) arises from (their) inferiority (to man).
(Mathnawi, I/2524-30)