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Facing the One
Joined February 2008
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Baraka Blue retweeted
-الأناقة اللغوية لها جاذبية رهيبة ،الشخص العميق
إلي عنده ذوق لغوي ، ينتقي كلماته بعناية و يصيب المعنى في مقتله ، حرفيا كأنه يسوي في عملية دقيقة بمشرط حاد ، تلاقيه زي الخياط ،يربط بين الفكرة و الفكرة بكلمات في غاية الروعة و الدلالة ..ما تمل منه و ماودك إياه يخلص كأنه عصفور يغرد
Baraka Blue retweeted
متى آلمكَ عدمُ إقبالِ الناسِ عليك، أو توجّههم بالذَّمِّ إليك، فارجعْ إلى علمِ اللّهِ فيكَ، فإن كان لا يُقنعُك عِلمُهُ فيك، فمُصيبتُكَ بعدمِ قناعتِكَ بعلمِهِ أشدّ من مصيبتِكَ بوجودِ الأذى منهم.
الحكم العطائية
Baraka Blue retweeted
My God. My God. The pettiness and hatred in that man's heart. He is literally a character in Dante's Inferno. Despite being given so much in life, he hates his enemies more than he fears God. MASSIVE respect to Douthat for posing the question, and then pressing him to answer.
🚨 Q: You're entering the next life [before God], all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, etc...can you do it?
TRUMP: Then I wouldn't be real, would I? The easy answer is, yes, I could forgive. They are extremely dishonest people, bad people, I love our country far more...the answer is no. I want to be honest.
Q: In judgement before God?
TRUMP: I do hate some of my enemies. Look what they put me through.
REPORTER: You had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime, and you can't find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies?
TRUMP: All I have to do is say yes, I can. Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that. Because I do hate some of my enemies — and I always will.
Never heard Trump get asked such a deep question like that before.
He COULD just say "yes" and get out of the question, but he didn't
One thing you have to admit is this man is brutally honest.
Baraka Blue retweeted
“To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.”
—John Henrik Clarke
Baraka Blue retweeted
A proper education once meant:
— Reading difficult books
— Writing long essays
— Learning history
— Studying philosophy
— Training memory
— Arguing clearly
Now it means:
— Career prep
— Standardized testing
— Group projects
— Slide decks
— Credential collection
Somewhere along the way, education became workforce training.
Baraka Blue retweeted
A lot of Thomas Merton's best passages are about how in trying to aggrandize ourselves we end up diminishing ourselves. Here's an indicative one:
Baraka Blue retweeted
Probably one of the most horrifying statistics I have seen today
Married + home by 30 years old in America
> 1950: 50%
> 1960: 52%
> 1970: 48%
> 1980: 45%
> 1990: 43%
> 2000: 35%
> 2010: 25%
> 2026: 12%
Sometimes it is named sun
Sometimes they call it tree
Sometimes it is named cloud
Sometimes they call it sea
Sometimes it is named you
Sometimes they call it me
Pass beyond the names now
Is it not the time to see?
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That tulip colored face
Was blooming in the vase
When the dunya was erased
In the union of embrace.
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Baraka Blue retweeted
“Having entered into this world, the spirit forgot its original home and its covenant with God. Man identifies himself with his ego and is unaware of the ocean of the spirit that lies just below the foam of his awareness. If man can pass beyond the veil of his own ego, his spirit can rejoin its original state of purity and unity.”
— Dr. William C. Chittick, The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi
#sufism
#tasawwuf
There’s a time for admonition
and a time to add munitions,
In the sad maydan of the self
sad is the man who had
to feel the blade to listen.
Have you seen a one whose nafs
is his religion?
What is the worth, to such a one,
a word of wisdom?
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Baraka Blue retweeted
"Now the question arises: How does a person who wishes to pursue the Süfi Path make do under these circumstances? Does he occupy himself with the quest of the spiritual guide? Or does he abandon the search and simply wait? And in either case, does he engage in the activities of the wayfarers, or not, in the meantime?
I say there is no point in searching for the spiritual guide, whether or not one is actively practicing Sufism. The spiritual guide is a gift of God Most High. It is His way of directing the aspiring servant who has turned his attention entirely to following the way and is sparing no effort and using all of his capabilities, however humble or grand. It is in this context that God Most High leads the individual to a more excellent state, safe from innovation and error, in which the seeker is secure from the pitfalls that await everyone who relies on the spiritual guide's solicitude and supervision as a buffer against past and future tribulations.
It is equally pointless merely to wait for the spiritual guide while postponing the active practice of Sufism... Only the fourth option remains: involvement in spiritual activity while one waits for the spiritual guide. The seeker can attain that goal by purifying his intention through vigilance over the sincerity of his relationship with God Most High. Anyone who desires the presence of God needs complete truthfulness, for God is present to those who are veracious. Sincerity consists in making demands of the lower self and disciplining it for the state of piety required in Sufism. That includes personal prayer, a heart intent on the door of the Master, a positive frame of mind, genuine hope, and an entering into the presence of God Most High with awe, reverence, and humility. As one disciplines himself and brings his lower self into line in these matters, he should ask God Most High to fulfill His promises, and he will arrive at his desired goal."
—Ibn 'Abbād of Ronda, Letters on the Sūfī Path, Letter 16.
