Excerpt from al-Rumi’s The Glance: Songs of Soul Meeting<\/p>\n
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The soul come every day at dawn. “Good<\/p>\n
to see you again my friend. The peace<\/p>\n
of God be with you.” No matter where<\/p>\n
you are, or what you’re doing, \u00a0talking<\/p>\n
silent, asleep, soul comes and greets<\/p>\n
you like that. Your soul sees your<\/p>\n
purity. Body sees your pretension and<\/p>\n
deceit. You are a rose that heals<\/p>\n
woundedness. “Hello again”, called out<\/p>\n
the thorns. I go to the village chief<\/p>\n
I say “God be with you” He gives me<\/p>\n
a glass of wine “Hold this carefully,<\/p>\n
Keep it safe” “The peace of God” I\u00a0tell<\/p>\n
him. “But did you know that I am crazy?”<\/p>\n
I like to sit in the fire with Abraham<\/p>\n
Then I turn and thank God. Salam<\/em>.<\/p>\n Aleichem<\/em>. I walk out. The world is<\/p>\n dense with greeting. I respond in kind,<\/p>\n then back into the cave with my Beloved.<\/p>\n Subtle artworks appear every where. It’s <\/em><\/p>\n so fine to be with you<\/em>. David from the throne<\/p>\n agrees to be thrown down!<\/p>\n Hallaj greets namaste from the cross. One<\/p>\n who is longing for your praise waves<\/p>\n without expecting anything. Someone<\/p>\n deeply in needs signals helplessly<\/p>\n The king puts up an appropriate banner<\/p>\n The sick mouthe ” Hey” I undress and walk<\/p>\n towards whatever next. Every string<\/p>\n on the instruments says salam<\/em> to<\/p>\n every other. Death brings good health.<\/p>\n I let words loose like mountain \u00a0run off<\/p>\n Read Surah 61, which warns of finding<\/p>\n images for what has no likeness, and<\/p>\n leave the job I imagines myself with<\/p>\n one thought God bless, adios, do svi-<\/p>\n danye, toodle-oo, au revoir, ciao, aloha,<\/p>\n teshekkir ederiim, may your well run deep<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Excerpt from al-Rumi’s The Glance: Songs of Soul Meeting The soul come every day at dawn. “Good to see you again my friend. The peace of God be with you.” No matter where you are, or what you’re doing, \u00a0talking silent, asleep, soul comes and greets you like that. Your soul sees your purity. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17876,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-to-ponder","tag-rumi","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}