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night ! 2008-02-08 11:29:00 This night..tears..pain..sobs..shaking bones,and a mistaken heart!and everything!This night.. will also diminsh one morning like other nights!O Lord of anonymous nights!Please keep them alive..~+~Why should you fear of darkness of deathand desertion of gravewhy do you fear of dying on some diastant way in anonymityif in darkness, Beloved would come there,and the grave shines!!~+~For Him,The amazing flute will always be blown..and the strings of sitar will always be plucked..She is going to dance forever..~+~Every night..When night sheds..and the big moon rises kissing the rim of distant blue dunesand fresh gusts of wind blow coming across the Sind Riverwhen all the birds have gone to sleep on trees in forestsand everything is silent like deathThere someone blows the eternal melody on fluteWho blows the flute!?~+~afterwind ...

Suggested Read 2008-02-07 01:40:00 While reading Darvish's blog, I came across a beautiful quotation :"To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day."- Lao TzuText Source:http://darvish.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/knowledge-and-wisdom/ ...

Right of Lover.. 2008-02-04 00:35:00 Flickr Photo: An Island Fades Into Darkness,Originally uploaded by forezt(Photo Source external)~+~Right of Lover:: What is right of the lover on the Beloved (Supreme) ?Has he right to see Him?Has he right to weep?Has he right for being answered?in fact he has no right.. ,because the Beloved owes nothing to him.. !The lover is like a drunkard of the wine of love..who has to lost at the Beloved's doorstep!The lover is a caterpillar..whose goal is to suffer the pure flames of love, for the sake of love for candle! ..whether annihilation would result or not,but.. "for the sake of" is his fulfillment,May Beloved keep filling the chalice foreverand keep them absorbed in the delightful feeling of His Holy Presence,~ afterwind ~~+~ ...

Two Options.. !! 2008-01-28 04:41:00 Desert Sunset, originally uploaded by clara & james.~+~Two Options.. !!Once a Sufi master said two options to his student."Let me know about what you want to be, lover or beloved!".The student could not decide so he asked to let him go to his mother to seek her advice. The Sufi permitted and he went....In way to home he came across a mad beggar on the street,who asked: "Why are you looking in so much hurry"The student told him about the options and going back for getting advice.Beggar said: "Well. Go and seek your mother's advice. But while returning to the teacher, do not forget getting my advice too !"...The student's mother was a clever woman and she knew well about the hardships of lovers. So she said:"It is very difficult and painful in being a lover, but it is very easy and has a beautiful feeling if you become beloved of others" She continued, "I advice you to chose to be beloved. "After getting advice he went away to see his Sufi teacher....The student recalled about the ...

Patience 2008-01-24 07:31:00 Photo Source:Flower Silhoutte , Originally uploaded by Onwuma~+~Patience Islamic traditions talk a about 'Isme Azam' (The Greatest name of God). Prayers are certainly accepted if blended in rendition of this Name. There is a Sufi story i heard:Once a man in search of 'Isme Azam' asked his Sufi master. The Sufi Shaikh directed him to go to some city main gate and meet an old man at specific time. The aspirant naive man reached the prescribed location at the specific time. There an old man appeared along with his wood-loaded donkey. He approached the city main gate and asked the city guard to permit his entrance into city. The guard slapped and abused the old man, who did nothing in reaction.The naive Sufi approached the old man and asked, "Are you the same old man, who knows 'Isme Azam' ?""Yeah, I am. ", replied the old man.Young man: "Then why not you punished that guard over that wrong?"Old man: "If you were in my position, what would you do?"Young man: "I would have burnt him"" ...

Seperation.. 2008-01-20 14:14:00 Photo Source: Full Moon over Albion Bridge, Mendocino, originally uploaded by Rita Crane.( watch full picture )~+~Separationyou left in the may, i wept in the june..come back soon !Separation is unbearable..and all the june is to pass..& all that memories,silent cravings about to faint away !but who comes back with a smile !Fie on you, oh' miserable heart !(c) afterwind~+~The AnswerWe wrote a hundred letters, and you did not write an answer.This, too, is a reply. - Zauqi(Text Source: from Book "The Way Of The Sufi" by Idries Shah)~+~Respect and SeparationA bird got mad in the love of moon,the moon lived on the sea surface, and bird in nest,the bird was red, and the moon white,once the bird could not control, and flew towards the moon to meet him,the moon set in the sea,the bird plunged after it into the sea, and drowned !Meeting is an urge, a provocationSeparation is respect, respect is separation(c) afterwind~+~Pain of SeparationYou pull stretch out the strings of my chest,from t ...

love again 2008-01-19 05:30:00 simply redOriginally uploaded by atplayr~+~CharmI looked at a star and fell in love for itbecause it was shimmering like a sunafter some time the star faded and lost it's charmbecause something had left itand then they forgot it !now no one cares for the new face of that star..but sometimes they stop again and yearn and weep, when they recall it's old beauty.. which had once kept them insane!They saw a tree of green leaves with colourful birds.They stopped and again fell in love for itand then, spring went away.. and the tree faded,because something had left itNow, whenever i pass that tree on my way..it has no effect.. as usual..but i still love it's old charm!like this, we crossed rivers, flowers and dew drop..and loved and forgot..why the birds, stars, trees had been able to make them insane for a short while..because of somethings !!what was something?Your something.. or.. "Yours Beauty" !Why you did this to us !(C)afterwind ~+~DSC_0436_kunming_lake_beijing_bw, originally upload ...

Love Story of a Strange Beggar 2008-01-11 12:34:00 Photo: rose Originally uploaded by kaycatt*Love Story of a Strange BeggarThis is a totally fabricated & unreal story. It goes on as follows:There was an old beggar sitting at door of some place of worship for asking alms from visitors. When there came the time of worship, the religious manager of the worship place approached him and asked, "Why do you not worship, instead of sitting here in this way". The old beggar replied: "Do your job and let me do mine." he continued, "If one is sitting outside the worship place, but dreaming about his beloved, what may one do then?" Mr. Manager could not get this reasonless excuse and left him.The manager was a regular worshipping observant. On one day, he forgot offering some parts of his regular worshipping. He got much pertinent and that night he slept and saw a dream about his own beloved complaining about manager's negligence. He got up next day and met the old beggar sitting on his old place outside the place of worship. He told him abo ...

Back 2008-01-06 04:53:00 Photo: Rain drops behind the rose, originally uploaded by Bach Tran. BACKIn severe winter nightnear 4 a.m.when it drizzled outsideand cold decreasedand a fresh reliving airentered my lukeworm roomthrough the window pane leakand bumped on the door lightlythen,some tears shed of my eyesfreshness entered into my nostrilsand set my mind freeI remembered you againas i did in the past or more betteras if thou had come back thyself(c)afterwind~ + ~Photo: Girl in rain originally Uploaded by bhumeshbharti ...

Not the Last Post 2007-12-31 07:51:00 Candles glowing..., originally uploaded by annpar.Though the lovers die.. but Beloved will keep the love alive !Thanks to all visitors..Irving, Mirza Asif, Paulo Coelho, Sadiq Alam, Maitri, painter of blue, Ludbafital, Redfisch, Satyana, Alps, Ram, ........ and all other people who kept this blog alive and meaningful by their visits. ...

True One God 2007-12-27 15:06:00 "Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth; the example of His light is like a niche in which is a lamp; the lamp is in a glass; the glass is as if it were a star shining like a pearl, kindled by the blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west – it is close that the oil itself get ablaze although the fire does not touch it; light upon light; Allah guides towards His light whomever He wills; and Allah illustrates examples for mankind; and Allah knows everything." [Quran: An-Noor 24:35]Translation source: http://ahlesunnat.biz/holyquran/holyquran024.htm ...

Picture: Waris Shah 2007-12-27 12:19:00 Syed Waris Shah (1722-98) , punjabi Sufi poet Picture source: http://www.virsaonline.com/Productions/Productions.htm ...

Heer & Ranjha's Love 2007-12-27 12:18:00 Photo source: 2007 Mid Autumn.. by Kusou Gallery. Punjabi Sufi poetry of Waris Shah puts light on the story of Heer and Ranjha.According to the story, Ranjha a country-lad fells in love of Heer, a girl who had been grown up with delicacy and care. Heer was conspiringly married to other person by her family and sent to her husband's village. Ranjha became ascetic (jogi) and started wandering in villages, asking for alms at doors.. and one day he reaches his beloved Heer's door. Through out the story, both miss each other but the story does not reunite them.There have always been an uncertainity about authenticity of this story. Through out centuries, It was prone to custom prejudice and misunderstandings. Some people think it as a mere folk and fabricated story which has nothing to do with the reality. This defencive explanation is given by the people who belong to a specific caste of Punjab, which was purported to be the same caste of Heer's family. Such act of missing a beloved by ... Amp

REPLY OF A KIND BELOVED.. 2007-12-25 11:18:00 Photo Source: Moon Tree by Eve48REPLY OF A KIND BELOVED TO A RELUCTANT LOVER !Always you alledged me of keeping viels of distance..because you never realised my presence which was always beside..who always kept veils of hesitation, it was you..and never opened eyes ..and remained deprived..look..I am beautiful.. and fair .. and true!then what for reluctance gets on you!realise..shed these veils ;and come in my arms!(c) afterwind ...

My urdu story link 2007-12-24 06:07:00 I wrote a short story (by the name: "???") in urdu some years ago in the past. I am providing external link to that story in the following:http://www.freewebs.com/pageno/publications/afs/rog/rog.htmI shall try to put an english translated version of story in the future. Inshallah ...