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07-20-2011, 09:50 PM
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 Masnawi by Mawlana Rumi (RAH) : Love for Allah explained
In Masnawi, Mawlana Rumi ( RAH) explained the divine love of Sahabi Hazrat Belal (RAH) in Parsian couplets. Am explanation of those couplets is written by Mawlana Hakim Akhtar (DB) in the following book.
http://www.khanqah.org/books/show/en-ma-arif-e-mathnawi ------- page 87 ~ 90 ----------- THE STORY OF HAZRAT BILAL Hazrat Bilal was an Abyssinian slave belonging to a Jew called Umayya Bin Khalaf. He embraced Islam in the early days of Islam, when the enemies of Islam did not allow the Muslims any restful moments. They tried every effort day and night to extinguish the Noor of Allah but Allah declared that He would complete that Noor, even though the non-believers were averse to it. . If Hazrat Bilal had wanted to, he could have kept his conversion to Islam a secret and thus have saved himself from persecution and injury. However, the Love for Allah within him forced him to openly proclaim the Kalima-e-Tawheed and to utter the cry of "Ahad!Ahad!". "When the Lover saw the dagger of Love in the hands of the Beloved, Without fear and oblivious of danger he ran towards it. And when the Lover saw the dagger aimed at him, He felt it compulsory to offer his head towards the knife. O truly Beloved, in Your remembrance Love seems good to me And till Qiyamat I want to continue uttering this cry in madness. When the self has claimed to be a wild duck, Then when the storm of calamities descended what complaint could it have?" This means that the wild duck is not afraid of the storm, but is able to overcome the ebb and flow of the waves of the storm. Similarly, the self of the Lover continues on its way along the route without being adversely affected by the storm of happenings. Hazrat Bilal uttered the cry of "Ahad! Ahad!" till the anger of the Jew forced him to react with violence and he assaulted Hazrat Bilal q~ in such a manner, that his body became filled with blood and injury. He made him lie down on the hot desert sand, saying to him: "Now do not dare utter the cry of God's oneness!" Hazrat Bilal replied within himself: "For the sake of Your Love the disbeliever wants to kill me and is shouting at me. O Beloved, Come hither to the lowest heaven and see the show of Your Lover. What a show it is?" One day Hazrat Abu Bakr was passing that way and saw the blood soaked Bilal '''crying out: "Ahad! Ahad!". On hearing this uttered cry, Hazrat Abu Bakr stood still and perceived the love for the Divine Being and the ecstasy involved. Seeing Hazrat Bilal being persecuted to this extent, his heart became agitated and tears came to his eyes. He called Hazrat Bilal towards himself and advised him to utter Allah's name in solitude and not to utter it in the presence of his persecutor. Otherwise his persecutor would continue to unjustly persecute and punish him. Hazrat Bilal '''replied: "0 Honoured One, you are the Siddeeq of Rasulullah I accept your advise and will act accordingly. " The following day, Hazrat Abu Bakr again happened to pass that way. Again he witnessed the same sight. Hazrat Bilal was again uttering the cry of "Ahad! Ahad!" while the Jew was terribly assaulting him until again his body became bloodstained. Seeing this, Hazrat Abu Bakr 'was again filled with agitation and he advised Hazrat Bilal "Brother, why do you utter 'Ahad' in the presence of this persecutor? Utter it silently and secretly within yourself". Hazrat Bilal replied: "I make toubah and in future will not act contrary to your advise." "0 Foolish One, do not command the nightingale towards silence For when it remembers the garden, its complaints will come on the lips. " Moulana Rumi (R.A.) says: "When Abu Bakr advised him towards silence and secrecy, Bilal repented again, But when love overwhelmed, he swallowed the repentance. It is the message of the troubled heart. Without You there can be neither peace nor comfort." Hazrat Bilal in spite of the numerous calamities of persecutions and pains, could not keep his love for Allah a secret and kept on openly uttering the cry of "Ahad! Ahad!". "When Love pulls the strings of its bow, Many are the souls that become sold for a small price. The body of Bilal was injured and blood-stained before the Jew, But his soul was enjoying nearness to Allah in Divine Love, enjoying unending Spring." This is what is called True Love. What a sad state of affairs that today people look at sensual love and call it love. That is not love. The love that comes from metaphorical beauty is not really 'ishq'. It is jisq' (transgression), which is caused by overeating. If a person has to go without food for a few days he will forget his love and ask for bread. But the Divine Love, because it is placed within the essence of man , even if no worldly needs are acquired, no change comes about in the Lover and his Love does not decrease. Love is actually a name for that kind of surrender that Allah, the truly Beloved is the Doer of everything and the servant is he who is pleased and satisfied with all that He does. |
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07-20-2011, 10:04 PM
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subhanALLAH!! HE WAS SAYING OUT OF LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!subhanALLAH...... cant even imagine the state of that kind ofLove Hazrat Bilal had
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07-21-2011, 01:28 AM
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this was the thread what made me so angry by the way, in case anyone wondered why i got so mad
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07-21-2011, 01:43 AM
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this was the thread what made me so angry by the way, in case anyone wondered why i got so mad
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07-21-2011, 05:34 AM
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lol. The discussions might get heated sometimes but i honestly love all you brothers for the sake of allah and am glad i come here to talk about things and do take good benefit from many of you. Jazakum allahu khair
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07-21-2011, 07:24 AM
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In Masnawi, Mawlana Rumi ( RAH) explained the divine love of Sahabi Hazrat Belal (RAH) in Parsian couplets. Am explanation of those couplets is written by Mawlana Hakim Akhtar (DB) in the following book. |
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07-21-2011, 10:08 PM
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Question:
If your Shaykh gave someone a fatwa that he can say Allah names quietly when under threat. Then a poet responded saying "O foolish one! Dont tell him to stay quiet." Would you not be offended? Would you not complain of lack of adab? Yet here we have someone of the Sufi tradition referring to Abu Bakr as-Sideeq radhiAllahu 'anhu as "the foolish one" and theres no outcry. Had Ml. Maududi or someone else not from your group wrote this then it would have been copied and distributed far and wide to show the gustakhi, but here we just say "SubhanAllah" and "Ma'sha'Allah". |
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07-22-2011, 12:32 AM
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Question: I understand that he (i.e Bilal Radiya Allahu anhu) is saying that to his ego. He is repenting from his repentence. |
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