Witnessing Light

Joyful the moment when we sat in the bower, Thou and I; In two forms and with two faces - with one soul, Thou and I. The colour of the garde...

my courage failing, and shelter in friendship gone re-evaluateto renew past acquaintance and specify a path home. (In the past few days I ha...

Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought.

Love draws us to love, pulls us into this sweet abyss, melts away attachments, drowns us in ecstacy. Who would not give away everything for ...

At first light, the Mourning Dove Woke me from my slumber, calling Coo, cooo ooo, coo, coo coo Alhamdulillah! O timely bird, Life is short a...

Art asks questions, Faith supplies answers: it is important for Faith to allow the Heart a space where it can express with Freedom & Dig...

we scream in the silence and no one hears us, crickets chirp around us and we pretend they're human, we pretend they understand our pain...

listen, if you loved me, you wouldn't try to fix me. if you loved me, you'd paint butterflies across the wall to make me smile. li...

snakes crawl out of my mouth, hands like sleep waiting silentlyf or me to give into them. i toss words like rocks across my tongue, skipping...

I'm here. Alone. On my own. No noises, Just me and my complicated mind. Just me and my noisy brain. They're gone, now. Disappear, ...

Be silent , my heart, for space hardly hear you, be silent for the phantoms of the night, will not give heed to the whisperings of your sec...

Stranger i am in this city and there is a severe solitude & painfull lonesomeness in my exile.i am alone but incase in my aloneness, i c...

There is a place where words are born of silence, A place where the whispers of the heart arise. There is a place where voices sing your bea...

You don't choose whom you love. He chooses them. If you had that choice to choose; then the road would be simple. Whom he puts in your l...

In the West we are conditioned to believe that at the beginning of every journey we should know where we are going and how to get there. Cau...

In the innermost chamber of the heart we have seen His face but this is hidden from consciousness. The heart speaks a language so different ...

Jalaluddin Rumi once said: "Love is a flame that burns away all that is not Allah." Love is a Beautiful and Divine Gift that Allah...

A Sufi master and his disciple were walking across a desert in Africa. When night fell, they pitched their tent and lay down to rest. 'H...

Dont ever let someone tell you you can't do something. If you got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can't do something them...

Most people are afraid that if they back off a little that the object of their affection will move on and eventually forget about them. But,...

when i come to the end of the road And the sun has set for me, I want no rites in a gloom filled room! why cry for a soul set free! Miss me...

Love is a source of many great troubles. But lacking love is a disgrace for travelers upon this path. Love is the life force of the entir...

the sufi's wild dance one thousand revolutions within allah's palm

Could you stop the flood Of tears if that's what poured Straight down my cheeks, like a never ending stream of despair? Could you take a...

please don't leave please don't go.

sunshine hurts my eyes. the only cage i'm in is one i've made myself. why, then, can't i break out of it?

'you haven't lost until you've given up, 'they remind me. 'don't give up.' sometimes i wonder - what if i alread...

the roads are too long, too slippery. it's too easy to get lost. and i have no map. could someone be my map? please?

my eyes are hollow. happiness is hiding from me, silence is stalking, suffocating. how do i smile?

I was strolling in the gardens of an insane asylum when I met a young man who was reading a philosophy book. His behavior and his evident go...

Trash is culture Right next to the golden arches, as seen on the side of a garbage. The irony abounds.

An old Cherokee chief is teaching his grandson about life:"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terri...

Life is this, dear reader ... the inhalation and exhalation of the breath. One passes, another enters.

Spring is here. I wish for you re-birth. Sap of life. Color of bloom. Peace

You may follow anyone. if you can see from those meetings that some love is awakening in your heart for God Almighty,thn you must keep with ...

the happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. ...

- It is said that there are two ways of dealing with people : One way is to control them, the other is to respect them. By controlling, you...

Never ending night; Reach for the stars above, so they can guide you.

Darkness reigned today Yet the light inside my soul Will never grow dim (these lines came arose in mind when i ended up my Jumma Prayer)

A broken heart beats Like an echo of the dead A memory gone

Raining again, it's always everlasting sound Music in darkness (No critiques, please. I wrote this out of my own feelings and made a pic...

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover. The way of our prophe...

Words firmented, twas long before they reached me. When they got here I knew them. A song I remember I just heard in the wind. That breeze c...

love? ? That lonesome leaf Where I wrote your name Still clings on, As autumn wins. Very soon it shall pass away too, But who cares for a...

Love is like a seed waiting to blossom. It lies beneath every surface waiting to be nourished. Every drop it is fed sprouts a new petal, its...

All of life is a journey. Which paths we take, what we look back on, and what we look forward to is up to us. We determine our destination, ...

The Eyes of Love never turn away from its Source There are times when we just sit in isolation and ponder over why our hearts erupt into suc...

Love once dwelt here in my head with all of its mindless fantasies it ruled my every thought Offering to do the illogical Willing to do anyt...

what innumerable follies laid waste my waking n sleepings thoughts after evening last night.i wished to annihilate the tedious intervening d...

Could you still protect me? When your own world is falling down upon you? Would you still want to hold me? When you had someone else to call...

I am instead, a way like that With pain I bleed, with the stains I’m weakI have no soul, my mind confused My heart has torn, my nails are bo...

things are not into hands properly and circumstances which made the ambience around my field wont let me sire this time.I know that way how ...

well, there is no hope for me this time.its the next stroke to my life.Night after night i had passed the house (vacation time).Misspently y...

I found something behind the woods. Somebody was laughing like creepy leaves from a devil tree. A laugh without echo and serpent form of ton...

I haven’t tried to shout in the deep forest. Watching the dark flowers and hearing the sound of insects’ intercourse. Not allowed the surpri...

I kill my soul in complete serenity And I watched it day by day It drowned as if I killed my self I watched it as it lay It cried for help a...

I’m too strange, and I’m too deranged I’m too much I cannot change I’m so dirty, I’m full of filth I don’t know how, I can take the guilt I ...

Raise your glass, It’s time for the toast, Champagne glitters in the grass, Drink to the time we miss most. Raise your glass, Flip a false s...

The old year ends in death, and the new year starts with it Don't be put off by the frost, the earth shall be reborn soon enough And in ...

Dreams, often perceived as irrelevant for the bright, are the essence of one's existence for figments of our imagination are far more co...

Can I not see, How time itself weaves The shards and smithereens together? Can I not blame, the being, the supreme, For every rip in the cas...

through the rain I see the car lights pass by flashes flashes of time How everything went by weeks ended months began years gone time to c...

Cold on the outside; empty on the inside this feeling is something that cannot be beaten In all my attempts at overcoming it I have fallen i...

I’m drowning myself at dawn, once again, in an empty coffin of tears, sleeping quietly and waiting for eternity to end, while intense despai...

1) A day when I go out and meet someone more knowledgable than me, so I learn from him, and that is the day of my benefit and profit. 2) A d...

Sham kay sitaray say Raat k andherey tak Faasla he kitna hai… Chaandni ki barkha say Koondtay sawerey tak Raasta he kitna hai… Saans kay ukh...

"I'm a mere shadow of a life passed, my self, my soul, my death, my world, you & my heart!" dusk's falling on my decad...

here's a story I read a few days back ... An oldy, but a goody :) This is one of the best explanations of why Allah allows pain and suff...

why have you drifted so far away from my body, the scent of your sweat faded from my teeshirt why have you slipped away so silent so cold be...

I could've been the desire in your eyes, and stayed like that forever. Bathed in the seething fragrance of your body. Breathed in the re...

We're shifting, and in the process of packing I have found myriad of small useless colorful things which were perfectly hidden in the ob...

I am still a moth trapped in the coldness of cold. and locked securely in the pristine cages of norms, notions, ethics. Chained and cuffed t...

Sitting under this tree that echoes both the symphony of life and death I see students playing before me…..mostly these are freshmen playing...

Wired and tired of trying – all again Spoke to the ones, I didn’t met in pain Story I spoke or even wrote did twice And a while, I spoke the...

Death inspires me, in a different way I succeed, reluctantly with greed Emotions deep within, I’d rather say I indeed haven’t sow the seed V...

That art though my head I indeed might instead Of though that I shall Indeed I as well Is we? Or is a broken arrow falling from the Stems of...

Sometimes I see things,time I realize Things that I cannot explain – neither visualize It sticks in my head and stimuli-ze The cells of wond...

The cage around my soulIs built by my finite flesh. Invisible yet existing! Fragile yet forceful! If only I could see through the web of my ...

Don’t resent the work. It gives you the strength to stand whole and silent before the vast Mystery.

From word to word I roam, From dawn to dusk. Dream in, Dream out -- I pass myself and towns, A human satellite. I wait, am hopeful, as one w...

Peace be upon you, O month of daytime fasting! Peace be upon you, O month of nighttime vigil! Peace be upon you, O month of true faith! Peac...

Each new day we are given Is a blessing from God Each breath at waking A new beginning Take nothing for granted Time and fortune are fleetin...

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundat...

I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould. I have seen a face whos...

I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-ste...

The day the dust of Heart was being kneaded A dewdrop of Love was dropped in....... And there ...... upon Their Fall ....... That dewdrop t...

Hu! I have a heart that no wine whatsoever can console, Except the wine of ever recalling the joy of joining with the Beloved. Ha...

(There are as many Ways to the Beloved as there are created Souls; and I take the shortcut: my heart's hidden door to You!) You are We i...

This is a pray.. Oh Allah take me to Madina.. The City of Great Beloved.. The Master of Your Lovers.. The Land where peace is still in the a...