My Thoughts

The Qalb is the heart. We use our minds to think but the Qalb can be used to assist it; and what a mighty assistance it is! Alhamdollilah! Main Article: The mind reasons, uses logic and grasps a new idea whenever it comes across one. It can also organize information and connect to previous knowledge we have so that one can make sense of it all. Thus the mind can be thought of as a unique tool that's very good at processing information and retaining knowledge. This ability and power to process as reasoning engines is something that will Inshallah one day be matched by Grand computer softwares that can think it all. In specific domains such as chess there is already software that can out-think the best human players! [Remember: Chess is a game of the mind] Our hearts on the other hand use a slightly different faculty to sense or [make sense of things]. They do so by 'feeling'; which is a non-thinking faculty that humans posses. Thus we know in our heart of hearts that

Love overwhelms us there is an exterme of passion joint with an extreme of discipline a most delicate balance indeed it empowers us making us unconditional it burns away our daemons this true of mother and her babe

I think our world is in pretty good shape. This because there is at certain parts of the world competency that has been established and is rewarded by an economic reward system. Within this economic system we have a subsystem where we may educate ourselves, pursue a career, marry, raise a family, build a house, fulfill our responsbilites as parents, then to our larger families, our society; each time being recongized for a job well done. [For it is in their interest to protect you!] The one missing element however, in many lives, is spiritual education. This is something organized religion should be doing, but instead is taken up by Fakirs and Sufis who teach the basics such as perhaps 'Intro to Love 100'. [An important milestone being we must reach the switch from feeling victimized at all times, to - the universe is benign and we a welcome friend - that it is in fact in the interest of others to protect us!] Many people who have worked very hard and accomplished much suffer d

We survive on ehsas but not a struggle for ehsas from others but the ehsas within for others - the first is just a struggle an expectation put forth in articulation that scares the other serves a stick to drive them away but the latter is an appreciation of the other and a result of feeling, from the pit of our hearts and core of being felt, unarticulated, spontaneous! - this another of love's secrets Ehsas is an Urdu word. Description: A 'feeling', and an 'awareness' born out of this feeling.

You are I me in the mirror this kaleidoscopic world yet I hesitate you and I our reflection we one another till we use this mirror to see each other - and breakthrough to find ourself when I scare you I scare myself - and to love myself is a journey unto peace that I give you your due this the beginning of a love I myself am due that I recognize you in you as child I see myself of past that looks at me now the adult that till now had remained a mystery in my own thoughts once silence I know yours a final testament we are one look inside yourself so you may hear mine each new face from however far a place even times past is me another mood myself the grand mystery that I discover more

Her company teleports me into clouds carried with an angelic grace, her stunning innocence, and breathtaking beauty, it seems for my awe that I behold and witness the Rab has created all this for HIS recognition this mystery that speaks a creature of the Garden - Faraz Haider *Rab: Arabic word connoting a caring, protecting, nurturing God. if the morning breeze, a lock of yours, unloosens a thousand lives prisoned, from their cares, are freed - Ameer Khusro @ Ameer Khusro: Pretty obvious why Mr. Khusro! A spectacle such as this would dissolve away the cares of me and many of my brothers! Alhamdollilah.

You imagine and entertain fear But you experience and transcend it Seeing the pain for what it is It is bearable It is always bearable For spirits in flesh Divine beings Pain is but a play In it we witness our vulnerability And witness our beauty For the flute when hollowed Is prepared for music Setting free our soul Her yearning answered She dances now the mystic dance at the universe's center Intoxicated in the trance she whirls For pain and its kind She has left behind To find her companions In Peace Joy and Love Guarding her they come to her aid But pain and its kind were aids sent for help Her friends of old They fill with gratitude For a job well done

you are not intimidating me, but You are intimidating yourself, do you not see the stress you feel, stop now become free in lust you do not ruin me you miss out, you ruin yourself stop now become free let's escape there is a way let's end the fight between us let's do it together for we are the same you and I in every way though it is a sentry failure cannot stop us for death has been sent to our rescue

The modern mind It teaches you to hold objects As when you were a toddler your hands did But you must stop the juggle You have to move on You had an innate faculty to sense things Revive it Intuition leads reasoning. And is itself led by intent One scientific measure of how highly conscious you are is the degree to which your faculty of intuition gives you insight into situations, people and everything else. In the case of Prophets such as Hazrat Yousuf his power of intuition was highly developed so that he could predict the future based on an interpretation of his dreams [using I am certain an intuitive faculty]. How the dreams were revealed I still wonder. As intuition works with us when we have an insight into a matter we use logic to fill in the gaps and build a concrete understanding of the matter. It is perhaps connected that at the hight of its development with a power of intuition individuals who have found their way may have the ability to prophesize the future.

Lust is bad you sell yourself short you may recover yourself but you ruin the other a person whose heart is open will settle for lust only after a jabbar on themselves and this is akin to shooting your self in the foot this is why NOTES 1. Jabbar is an Arabic word that implies the object on which jabbar is being done is being antagonized and put through pain.

A stage in one's evolution should come where they become aware of their "self". To do so would mean to enjoy interacting with the universe as a form of art through the use of our faculties of mind and heart jointly to interact with it. In so doing we become the artists. But there is a stage it seems that lies beyond finding the self. It appears to be a higher form of consciousness, where we loose the 'self' we found, and hand over the brush of the artist to the universe as it demands from us. A complete form of submission it would seem. NOTES 1. My use of the word 'self' may not be how others use it.

Read my posts a year ago @ http://usefulthought-s.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html and then read some of my recent posts. Thanks to Blogspot I have had the opportunity to record my thoughts and I am myself in awe of the progress I have made. There is a huge jump in the sophistication of the: 1. Kind of topics I am dealing with now 2. The increase in my consciousness 3. My ability to put 'feeling' in my words [Read this ] 4. How lean my world view is [Read this ] And yes I can now write a poem! [Read here ] And God is kind to those who try. Alhamdolillah!

Allah has said that HE is closer to us than our jugular vein. It is also said that HE loves us more many times over than our mother possibly can. Clearly HE is also a being of ultimate power who communicates to us through the universe. But the question arises in my mind: “if this is so how can I ask HIM for help?” I have written below one answer I have found. An Affirmation can be described as: When you think about something it happens. Let’s think of humans as machines for a moment. In that sense the thoughts that go through our minds influence us. Eventually the actions we do are a reflection of the thoughts we keep. In fact each action we do is completely derived from the collection of thoughts that have brought it into creation [through interplay of our conscious and subconscious minds and the environment that brings to us the particular situation]. If this is so than by ‘invoking’ thoughts we should be able to create events in the future through our actions that we don’t know of.