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Eid Mubarak to all our Muslim brothers and sisters in pakistan
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May this festival of Eid Ul Adha bring peace to our country, Pakistan
Eid Mubarik to the whole Pamiri community around the world
Sher
QURBANI-`ID MUBARAK!
A REFLECTION ON HAJJ BY NASIR KHUSRAW, THE 11TH CENTURY ISMAILI THINKER AND PREACHER.
” The pilgrims had returned, reverenced and honoured,
giving thanks to God for His compassion and mercy,
from the dangers and hardships of the Arabian journey,
and saved – no doubt – from hell and painful chastisement,
having walked from Arafat to Mecca and answered
the pilgrim s call with joy, having performed
all the duties of the Hajj and retuned home
hale and hearty. I decided to go and welcome them back
but I m afraid I asked too many questions
and put my foot in it. Among the caravan, one
was a particular friend of mine, a dear man.
Tell me how you made it through this dangerous
journey I said.All the time you have been away
I ve had nothing but sorrow for companionship.
Congratulations, Haji! There s no one like you
in our whole province, I m sure. Tell me
how you visited that sacred place, with what
honour and dignity you beheld it. Tell me
about the donning the pilgrim s robe, and what
your inner intentions were at that moment.
Did you prohibit to yourself everything other
than the Eternal Lord?
Well . . . . no , he admitted.
Did you answer the call out of knowledge
and with due reverence? Did you hear the summons
of the Lord, and answer back, like Moses?
Well . . . . um . . .
At Arafat, when in the presence of God, did
you welcome His Knower, and the denyer of your self?
Did the breeze of Gnosis blow upon your you?
. . . uh . . . to tell the truth I . . .
When you sacrificed the obligatory sheep
did you see yourself in proximity to Him
and think of the sheep as your carnal soul?
My what? I say . . .
When you entered the Sacred Grounds were you safe
from the evil of your lower self and from the sorrow
of separation, the chastisement of Hell?
You see, actually . . . .
When you threw stones at the Accursed One
did you fling out of yourself all bad habits
and reprehensible acts?
Umm . . . um . . .
When you prayed at the Station of Abraham
did you, in truth, faith and certitude, submit
the very core of your being to the Absolute?
The what?
At the time of circumambulation, when you
were no doubt running around fast as an ostrich,
did you remind yourself of the circling cherubim
around the Celestial Throne?
Really, Nasir, what . . .?
Did you behold in your purity of heart the Two Worlds
and become inwardly free of both Paradise and Hell?
NO, NO, NO!
Now that you have come back, is your heart
pained by separation from the Kaaba?
Did you bury your selfish ego in the tomb
. . . or are you still no better than a
decaying bag of bones?
I must admit
he answered,that in all these matters
I seem not to have known the true from the false.
Then, my friend , I said,you have not made
a pilgrimage, and have not taken up residence
in the Abode of Annihilation. You have simply
visited Mecca and come back, having purchased
the toils of the desert with your silver.
If you ever go again, bear in mind
all that I have said. ”
FORTY POEMS FROM THE DIVAN