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de repente, se encontró con el lobo y le dijo: “Caperucita, Caperucita, ¿dónde vas?”. “A casa de mi abuelita a llevarle pan, chocolate, azúcar y dulces”. “¡Vamos a hacer una carrera! Te dejaré a ti el camino más corto y yo el más largo para darte ventaja.”...........................
"De repente un ruido extraño se colaba entre nuestra conversación, un tic tac cada vez más rápido incomodaba nuestra voz. Entonces me miraste y me dijiste que era la hora de despedirnos, te mire atónita, no entendía el por qué de esa despedida, me saltaban las lagrimas y me sentía afligida de escuchar ese ruido sin parar. Me abrazaste fuerte y me dijiste en el oído que no me atemorizara, que en esos momentos volvería al mundo real y dejaría a un lado ese sueño súbito. No pude responderte, cuando me giré para hacerlo ya estaba en mi habitación, tan sola y vacía como siempre."
*Vuelvo con unos amaneceres que espero que os dejen sin habla :)
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I do not know if he died or was adopted? But for most of dead.
The beginning, I really think that place is safe. Later, he was the first disappeared. I was still hesitant, really naive to think that the cat is because a Quarter change of hiding.
Later of some time, continue to have two cats disappeared. At that time, I only wake up to that place is very dangerous.
Every time when I see the pictures of them, I very very repent.
"De repente
Ao lembrar dos brinquedos queridos
Que ficaram esquecidos
Dentro do armário
Me bate uma saudade
Me bate uma vontade
De voltar no tempo
De voltar ao passado
Mas nada acontece
Nada parece acontecer
E eu choro
Choro como o bebê que fui
E a criança que quero voltar a ser
Não quero crescer!"
Clarice Pacheco
"BELIEVE JESUS"
"REPENT"
"RETURN TO THE CHILD YOU ONCE WERE"
I was deeply moved by the act of this man!
Life is worth living only if there are goals inspiring one to live, and this man has found it definitely!
Soundtrack // Bande-son: BAUHAUS ("Hollow Hills"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm2jyJcH7DU
"Witches too and goblin's too (too)... And speckled sills... LAMENT REPENT oh mortal you (oh mortal you)... So sad (hollow hills)... So sad..."
The Torture Garden: www.flickr.com/photos/regisa/48692865452/in/photolist-2hb...
De repente me vi allí, ante aquella obra que había visto millones de veces en los libros, tan admirada y a la vez tan aborrecida debido al insensato uso comercial que se había hecho de ella, que la emoción tan intensa que sentí, que comenzó a derramarse a borbotones, me cogió totalmente por sorpresa. El mundo desapareció de mi lado a pesar de encontrarme en medio de una sala completamente atestada de gente. No había nada más, sino aquel cuadro, aquel famoso cuadro que representaba, supuestamente, el más sublime de los sentimientos. Yo solo en aquella sala, yo y el dorado cuadro... y la voz tan cercana de un artista, que trascendiendo el tiempo y el espacio, me susurraba a través de su obra, lo importante que era, para el hombre, el Arte.
El viajero del Faro.
(olha eu mostrando a cara aí gewntch)
Escuta aqui... gente.
QUE MERDA É ESSA? QUAL É A DESSE AUÊ?
Vem cá. De repente, toda a bola que eu canto desde que entrei aqui no flickr dos esmaltes e futilidades virou modinha.
De repente, todo mundo é contra o vício. De repente, todo mundo começou a enxergar essa bobeira de ser a famigerada patty fútil dos esmaltes, a infeliz que comenta “ai que lindo” e só posta foto pra ter comentários, ou pra mostrar quantos esmaltes lindos tem, ou aquelas cores difíceis holográficas craqueladas flocadas etc etc etc... até aí tudo bem.
Só que, DE REPENTE, todo mundo está achando RUIM quem tem muitos esmaltes. De repente, todo mundo acha DOENÇA. De repente, todo mundo colocou todo mundo no mesmo saco da generalização e somos todas meninas muito perdidinhas, exageradas e que perderam as estribeiras com vidros coloridos.
PERALÁ.
Sabe quantos esmaltes eu tenho? Mais de 700.
Comecei a comprar por volta de janeiro de 2009, ou seja, faz DOIS ANOS que estou nessa onda. Eu sei do que estou falando.
Se você não consegue viver com uma unha lascada, VOCÊ tem problema. Se você precisa ter todas as cores de uma coleção, VOCÊ tem problema. Se você transforma sua vida num culto eterno e doentio pelos esmaltes, VOCÊ TEM MESMO UM PROBLEMA.
Não generalize.
Porque eu tenho 700 cores diferentes que pretendo usar até o fim. Uma boa base e um top coat vão me bastar. Não compro desenfreada. Só que o que vou fazer, se são 700 cores que eu queria muito? Acho que nunca comprei uma coleção completa, dificilmente compro um esmalte que não seja novidade (só fiz isso no início, quando eu realmente não tinha nem um Renda em casa) e espero juntar todas as coleções nas lojas pra sair e comprar de monte numa vez só (umas 10 cores novas e tal).
Eu posso sim entrar numa farmácia e sair sem um vidrinho (sempre foi assim), eu posso entrar numa loja de cosméticos e idem, aliás, eu SEMPRE PUDE. Se você não pode, seu problema não é com esmaltes, e sim com consumismo.
Ou será que é normal ter 200 pares de sapato? É normal ter 50 batons? E umas 100 sombras diferentes? Pior, 500 rímels porque AI ESSE SIM É O QUE VAI FUNCIONAR?
Você tem pés suficientes pra tudo isso? Tem lábios, pálpebras e principalmente CÍLIOS também?
Vício é algo ruim em qualquer lugar. Mas não generalize.
Tem gente que tem muito de uma coisa porque GOSTA. De verdade e sinceramente. Sem exageros descontrolados para si. Tem gente que compra cada um dos 700 esmaltes porque realmente O QUER. E aí, é doença? É ruim?
NÃO.
Coisa ruim é entrar em modinhas porque elas existem. É ver que, por algum motivo, todas estão dando mais atenção para as unhas e então você quer ser a que mais chama a atenção nesse nicho. Quer ter todos os esmaltes coloridos dignos e fodões, quer ter as unhas mais lindas e impecáveis... até alguém mudar a modinha. Em um momento é ter muitos esmaltes. Em outro momento, é ter holográficos. Em outro momento é ter flocados. Em um outro momento, é repetir seus esmaltes queridos. Em outro momento é doar esmaltes...
E o momento agora é falar mal de quem tem muitos.
Amigue.
Vai viver.
Sério, SE ANALISA e vê O PORQUÊ de tudo isso.
Se você tiver uma coleção grande, mas no estilo que eu disse – em que há um apreço por todas as cores, por mais que sejam 1000 ou 2000... TAMO JUNTO.
Se você nem sabe bem o que tá fazendo da vida, se JOGA NO POÇO.
PORQUE
THIS
IS
ESMALTEEEEEEEE!!!
E só os fortes e bravos sobreviverão além dos tempos!
Ahey!
o/
PS: e eu vou continuar a postar fotos dos esmaltes mais tchans que eu compro e recebo. Sabe por quê? Porque em momento algum minha intenção é de sair me mostrando, e sim compartilhar minha felicidade. Se você enxerga errado, POBREMA TEU. Não vou começar a me censurar agora porque tem gente que acha “meio chato”, viuxe.
PS2: se vc curtiu a foto, aqui tem outras versões da mesma haha:
remember => re-member => we are members of One Body => brothers and sisters of the same Father and Mother
remember => your True Essence => turn your life back to God => repent => re-Unite => be whole
“Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze but as they sway they connect at the roots.”—Jelaluddin Rumi from “Birdsong” and “The Essential Rumi”
De repente acordei com saudade, daqui.
E percebi que todo dia é uma nova possibilidade de se fazer e trazer a mudança em nós, de se encontrar, ressignificando a nossa vida.
O novo nos espera todo dia e, todo-santo-dia, apesar dos empecilhos, impasses, tristezas, temos também uma bagagem boa de alegrias, de atitudes, positividade, afetividade, sentimentos e do "depende de nós". É a vida! Há de se ter foco, novos olhares e novas energias sobre ela. Valorize o que você tem e seja gentil! ♡
Por aqui muito trabalho e pouco tempo para tirar fotos! Mas vai ter um trabalho fofo que vou dividindo com vocês ao longo dos dias. Abre alas, que lá vem uma princesa bem fofa!
A todos que acompanham o Blog e que encontram aqui um ponto de aventuras artesanais, amizades, trocas, dicas, deixo o meu forte abraço.
Uma semana cheia de alegrias! E vamos craftar!
“Quando você aprende a valorizar os momentos, sejam eles pequenos ou gigantescos,
entende a brevidade da vida e o seu valor.
Cada segundo conta.”
(Gustavo Lacombe)
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De repente comenzó a dudar, a preguntarse a si mismo porque había venido. Nunca somos tan conscientes de nuestra propia existencia, ni tan fuertes, pero también tan vulnerables en el paréntesis a que nos lleva una incierta espera, entonces, como en un limbo, repasamos nuestras vidas. Sin embargo, la emoción que él ansiaba y que también imaginaba en ella cuando viese de nuevo su cara acercándosele y por fin le abrazase le hizo temblar. No podía importarle el llevar una hora esperando y con el teléfono sin batería. Valía la pena vivir aquella espera para vivir el futuro que se imaginaba inminente.
Galaxy Magazine / Taschenbuch-Reihe
> C. C. MacApp / The Mercurymen
> Norman Kagan / Laugh Along with Franz
> Willy Ley / For Your Information: The Healthfull Aromatick Herbe
> Robert Silverberg / The Warriors of Light
> Harlan Ellison / "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
> Frederik Pohl / The Age of the Pussyfoot (Part 2 of 3)
cover: John Pederson, Jr.
[Cover illustrates "The Mercurymen"]
Galaxy Publishing Corp. / USA 1965
ex libris MTP
"John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea
and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!"
It was of him that the prophet Isaiah had spoken when he said:
A voice of one crying out in the desert,
Prepare the way of the Lord,
make straight his paths.
John wore clothing made of camel's hair
and had a leather belt around his waist.
His food was locusts and wild honey.
At that time Jerusalem, all Judea,
and the whole region around the Jordan
were going out to him
and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River
as they acknowledged their sins.
When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees
coming to his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers!
Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Produce good fruit as evidence of your repentance.
And do not presume to say to yourselves,
'We have Abraham as our father.'
For I tell you,
God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees.
Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit
will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
I am baptizing you with water, for repentance,
but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I.
I am not worthy to carry his sandals.
He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
His winnowing fan is in his hand.
He will clear his threshing floor
and gather his wheat into his barn,
but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.""
– Matt 3:1-12, which is today's Gospel at Mass for the 2nd Sunday of Advent.
Fresco by Ghirlandaio in the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence.
Religious sign along the PA Turnpike. I always wanted to take a photo of it and finally remembered too (at about 70 mph - I was a passenger).
De repente, nos podemos encontrar el típico acomodo de una cabeza con sus orejotas que nos recuerdan al conocido personaje.
Lobby Port Orleans Resort - Riverside
Pride and Prejudice: on Raphael Perez's Artwork
Raphael Perez, born in 1965, studied art at the College of Visual Arts in Beer Sheva, and from 1995 has been living and working in his studio in Tel Aviv. Today Perez plays an important role in actively promoting the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual) art and culture in Tel Aviv, and the internet portal he set up helps artists from the community reach large audiences in Israel and abroad. Hundreds of his artworks are part of private collections in Israel and abroad, and his artworks were shown in several group exhibitions: in Tel Aviv Museum of Art, "Zman Le'Omanut" art gallery, Camera Obscura, The Open House in Jerusalem, Ophir Gallery, The Haifa Forum and other private businesses and galleries.
In 2003-4 his paintings and studio appeared in a full-length movie, three student films and two graduation films.
Raphael Perez is the first Israeli artist to express his lifestyle as a Gay. His life and the life of the LGBT community are connected and unfold over hundreds of artwork pieces. His art creation is rare and extraordinary by every Israeli and international artistic standard. His sources of inspiration are first and foremost life events intertwined in Jewish and Israeli locality as well as influences and quotes from art history (David Hockney, Matisse). This uniqueness has crossed international borders and has succeeded in moving the LGBT and art communities around the world.
This is the first time we meet an Israeli artist who expresses all of his emotions in a previously unknown strength. The subjects of the paintings are the everyday life of couples in everyday places and situations, along with the aspiration to a homosexual relationship and family, equality and public recognition. Perez's works bring forward to the cultural space and to the public discourse the truth about living as LGBT and about relationships, with all of their aspects – casual relationships and sex, the yearning for love, the everyday life and the mundane activities that exist in every romantic relationship – whether by describing two men in an intimate scene in the bathroom, the bedroom or the toilet, a male couple raising a baby or the homosexual version of the Garden of Eden, family dinners, relationship ups and downs, the complexity in sharing a life as well as mundane, everyday life competing with the aspiration to self realization – through Perez's life.
Perez's first artworks are personal diaries, which he creates at 14 years of age. He makes sure to hide these diaries, as in them he keeps a personal journal describing his life events in the most genuine way. In these journals he draws thousands of drawings and sketches, next to which he alternately writes and erases his so-called "problematic texts", texts describing his struggle with his sexual orientation. His diaries are filled with obsessive cataloging of details, daily actions, friends and work, as well as repeating themes, such as thoughts, exhibits he has seen, movies, television, books and review of his work.
When he is done writing, Perez draws on his diaries. Each layer is done from beginning to end all along the journal. In fact, the work on the diaries never ends.
This struggle never ends, and when the emotion is passed on to paper, and it ends its role and becomes meaningless in a way, the visual-graphic side becomes dominant, due to the need to hide the written text, according to Perez. In books and diaries this stands out even more – when he chooses to draw in a style influenced by children's drawings, the characters are cheerful, happy, naïve and do not portray any sexuality, and when he tries drawing as an adult the sketches became more depressed and somber. During these years Perez works with preschool children, teaching them drawing and movement games. Perez says that during this period he completely abandoned the search for a relationship, either with a woman or a man, and working with children has given him existential meaning. This creation continues over 10 years, and Perez creates about 60 books-personal journals in various sizes (notepads, old notebooks, atlases and even old art books).
In his early paintings (1998-1999) the transition from relationships with women to relationships with men can be seen, from restraint to emotional outburst in color, lines and composition. Some characters display strong emotional expression. The women are usually drawn in restraint and passiveness, while a happy and loving emotional outburst is expressed in the colors and style of the male paintings.
"I fantasized that in a relationship with a woman I could fly in the sky, love, fly. However, I felt I was hiding something; I was choked up, hidden behind a mask, as if there was an internal scream wanting to come out. I was frustrated, I felt threatened…"
His first romance with a man in 1999 has drawn out a series of naïve paintings dealing with love and the excitement of performing everyday actions together in the intimate domestic environment.
"The excitement from each everyday experience of doing things together and the togetherness was great, so I painted every possible thing I liked doing with him."
From the moment the self-oppression and repression stopped, Perez started the process of healing, which was expressed in a burst of artworks, enormous in their size, amount, content and vivid colors – red, pink and white.
In 2000 Perez starts painting the huge artworks describing the hangouts of the LGBT community (The Lake, The Pool) and the Tel Avivian balcony paintings describing the masculine world, which, according to him, becomes existent thanks to the painting. Perez has dedicated this year to many series of drawings and paintings of the experience of love, in which he describes his first love for his new partner, and during these months he paints from morning to night. These paintings are the fruit of a long dialogue with David Hockney, and the similarity can be seen both in subjects and in different gestures.
In 2001 Perez creates a series of artworks, "Portraits from The Community". Perez describes in large, photorealistic paintings over 20 portraits of active and well-known members of the LGBT community. The emphasis is on the achievements that reflect the community's strong standing in Tel Aviv.
As a Tel-Avivian painter, in the past two years Perez has been painting urban landscapes of central locations in his city. Perez wanders around the city and chooses familiar architectural and geographical landmarks, commerce and recreation, and historical sites, and paints them from a homosexual point of view, decorated with the rainbow flag, which provide a sense of belonging to the place. His artworks are characterized by a cheerful joie de vivre and colors, and they also describe encounters and meetings. The touristic nature of his paintings makes them a declaration of Tel Aviv's image as a place where cultural freedom prevails.
Perez's Tel Aviv is a city where young families and couples live and fill the streets, the parks, the beach, the houses and the balconies – all the city's spaces. The characters in his paintings are similar, which helps reinforcing the belonging to the LGBT community in Tel Aviv. The collective theme in Perez's artwork interacts with the work of the Israeli artist Yohanan Simon, who dealt with the social aspects of the Kibbutz. Simon, who lived and worked in a Kibbutz, expressed the human model of the Kibbutznik (member of a Kibbutz) and the uniqueness of the Kibbutz members as part of a group where all are equal. Simon's works, and now Perez's, have contributed to the Israeli society what is has been looking for endlessly, which is a sense of identity and belonging.
Perez maps his territory and marks his boundaries, and does not forget the historical sites. Unlike other Tel Avivian artists, Perez wishes to present the lives of the residents of the city and the great love in their hearts. By choosing the historical sites in Tel Aviv, he also pays tribute to the artist Nachum Gutman, who loved the city and lived in it his whole life. In his childhood Gutman experienced historical moments (lighting the first oil lamp, first concert, first pavement), and as an adult he recreated the uniqueness of those events while keeping the city's magic.
Like Gutman, Perez has also turned the city into an object of love, and it has started adorning itself in rich colors and supplying the energy of a city that wishes to be "the city that never sleeps", combining old and new. Perez meticulously describes the uniqueness and style of the Bauhaus houses and balconies along the modern glass and steel buildings, all from unusual angles in a rectangular format that wishes to imitate the panorama of a diverse city in its centennial celebrations.
Daniel Cahana-Levensohn, curator.
Interview with the painter Raphael Perez about his family artist book
An interview with the painter Raphael Perez about an artist's book he created about his family, the Peretz family from 6 Nissan St. Kiryat Yuval Jerusalem
Question: Raphael Perez, tell me about the family artist book you created
Answer: I created close to 40 artist books, notebooks, diaries, sketch books and huge books. I dedicated one of the books to my dear family, a book in which I took a childhood photograph of my family, my parents and brothers and sisters.. I pasted the photographs inside a book (the photograph is 10 percent of the total painting) and I drew with acrylic paints, markers and ink on the book and the photograph, so that the image of the photograph was an inspiration to me Build the story that includes page by page..
Question: Tell me when you were born, where, and a little about your family
Answer: I was born on March 4, 1965 in the Kiryat Yuval neighborhood in Jerusalem
I have a twin brother named Miki Peretz and we are seven brothers and sisters, five boys and two girls
Question: Tell us a little about your parents
Answer: My parents were new immigrants from Morocco, both immigrated young.
My mother's name before the wedding was Alice - Aliza ben Yair and my father's name was Shimon Peretz,
My mother was born in the Atlas Mountains and was orphaned at a young age and was later adopted by my father's family at the age of 10, so that my mother and father spent childhood and adolescence together....
They had a beautiful and happy relationship but sometimes when they argued my mother would say "even when she was a child she was like that..." This means that their acquaintance and relationship dates back to childhood..
Question: What did your parents Shimon and Aliza Peretz work for?
Answer: My father, Shimon Perez, born in 1928 - worked in a building in his youth and then for thirty years worked as a receptionist at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem... My father's great love was actually art, he loved to draw as a hobby, write, read, solve crossword puzzles and research Regarding the issue of medicinal plants, as a breadwinner he could not fulfill his dream of becoming an artist, in order to support and feed seven children. But we are the next generation, his children are engaged in the world of creativity and education, a field in which both of my parents were engaged during their lives. My father died at the age of 69
My mother, Alice Aliza Perez, born in 1934, worked as an assistant to a kindergarten teacher, and later took care of a baby at home. She is a woman of wholehearted giving and caring for children and people, a warm, generous and humble woman.. and took care of us in our childhood for every emotional and physical deficiency.. My mother is right For the year 2023, the 89-year-old is partly happy and happy despite the difficulties of age.. May you have a long life..
My mother really loved gardening and nature and both of them together created a magnificent garden, my parents have a relatively large garden so they could grow many types of special and rare medicinal plants and my father even wrote a catalog (unpublished) of medicinal plants and we even had botany students come to us who were interested in the field... today they They also grow ornamental plants, and fruit trees...
Question: A book about the brothers and sisters
Answer: My elder brother David Perez repented in his mid-twenties.. He was a very sharp, opinionated, curious and very charismatic guy who brought many people back to repentance, and also helped people with problems through the yeshiva and the synagogue to return to the normal path of life, he died young at the age of 56
Hana Peretz: My lovely sister, raised eight children, worked in the field of education, a kindergarten teacher, and child care.
She has a very large extended family of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren...
My brother Avi (Abraham) Peretz studied in Israel at the University of Philosophy and Judaism, he married a wonderful woman named Mira Drumi, a nurse by profession, and together they had three wonderful children, when they moved to the United States in their mid-twenties, where my brother Avi Peretz completed his master's degree in education, worked in the field Education and for the last twenty years is A conservative rabbi
The fourth brother is Asher Peretz - a great man of the world, very fond of traveling and has been to magical places all over the world, engaged in the creation of jewelry with two children.
I am Rafi Peretz english raphael perez the fifth and after fifteen minutes my twin brother was born
My mother still gets confused and can't remember who was born first :-)
My twin brother Miki micky - Michael Peretz, a beloved brother (everyone is beloved), a talented industrial designer, he has three children, his wife Revital Peretz Ben, who is a well-known art curator, active and responsible for the art field in Tel Aviv, they are a dynamic and talented couple, full of talents and action
The lovely little sister Shlomit Peretz - has been involved in the Bezeq telephone company for almost three decades, and is there in management positions, raising her lovely and beloved child.
The art book I dedicated to my family is colorful, rich in details, shows a very intense childhood, happy, cheerful, colorful, ... We were taught to be diligent and to be happy in our part and to see the glass half full in life, to have emotional intelligence and to put the relationship and love at the center with self-fulfillment in work that will interest you us and you will give us satisfaction.
Each of us is different in our life decisions and my family is actually a mosaic of the State of Israel that includes both religious and secular people from the entire political spectrum who understand that the secret to unity is mutual respect for each other... when my mother these days is also the family glue in everyone's gatherings on Shabbat and holidays..
The personification of the flower couple paintings by the Israeli painter Raphael Perez
Raphael Perez, also known as Rafi Peretz, is an Israeli painter who
explores his personal and sexual identity through his flower paintings. He created a series of flower paintings from 1995 to 1998, when he was in his early thirties and still in relationships with women, despite feeling gay. His flower paintings reflect his emotional turmoil and his struggle with his sexual orientation. He painted two flowers, one blooming and one wilting, to represent the contrast and conflict between his heterosexual relationships and his true self. He also painted single flowers or two flowers in their prime, to express his longing for a harmonious relationship that matches his nature. He chose sunflowers, white lilies, and red lilies as symbols of expression, purity, and joy, respectively. He painted from real flowers, using different styles and light to create drama and mood. Perez’s paintings of the flower couples are minimalist and focused on the theme of the complex relationship. He omitted any background or context, leaving only the canvas and the drawing of the flower couples. In some of the paintings, he added a very airy abstract surface with thin oil paints that give an atmosphere of watercolors. He also made drawings of flowers in ink, markers and gouache on paper. Later on, he created large acrylic paintings of flowers and still life. Perez’s flower paintings are not mere illustrations or decorations. They are autobiographical and psychological expressions of his inner state and his struggle with his sexuality. He wanted to reveal his loneliness, distress and concealment through these paintings, and to connect with people who are in a similar situation. He deliberately chose only two flowers and no more to intensify the engagement in the charged and complex relationship. Perez also painted and drew couples of men and women with charged psychological states, as well as states of desire for connection and realization of a heterosexual relationship that did not succeed. He used hyperrealism and expressive styles to convey his frozen and calculated state, as well as his mental stress. He used harsh lighting to create contrast and drama, with one side very bright and the other side darker. Perez was influenced by some of the famous artists who painted flowers, such as Van Gogh, who also used sunflowers as a symbol of expression. He also used white lilies and red lilies to convey freshness, cleanliness, purity, color, joy, movement, eruption, and splendor. Perez also painted some single flowers or two flowers in their prime, to show his aspiration for a future where he will have a harmonious relationship. Today, he is 58 years old and in a happy relationship for 10 years with his partner Assaf Henigsberg. He is surrounded by female friends and soulmates and not conflicted with heterosexual relationships as he used to be. He occasionally paints flowers in pots to symbolize home, stability, and peace. Sometimes I paint flowers in pots, which represent home, stability, and solid ground for me. I don’t paint just a couple of flowers, but pots full of flowers that overflow with life. This means that we also have a supportive network of family, friends, and peers around us. We live in a rich, supportive, and protective world. These paintings are a personification of my psychological state, when I had no words to express my feelings to myself. The painting began In 35 years of my creation (starting in 1998), you can read more about how my art and style evolved over time. Perez’s flower paintings are a unique and extraordinary artistic creation that reveals his personal journey and his sexual identity. His work is honest, expressive, and emotional, as well as beautiful and vibrant.
The characteristics of the naive painting of the painter Raphael Perez
A full interview with the Israeli painter Raphael Perez (Hebrew name: Rafi Peretz) about the ideas behind the naive painting, resume, personal biography and curriculum vitae Question: Raphael Perez Tell us about your work process as a naive painter? Answer: I choose the most iconic and famous buildings in every city and town that are architecturally interesting and have a special shape and place the iconic buildings on boulevards full of trees, bushes, vegetation, flowers. Question: How do you give depth in your naive paintings? Answer: To give depth to the painting, I build the painting with layers of vegetation, after those low famous buildings, followed by a tall avenue of trees, and behind them towers and skyscrapers, in the sky I sometimes put innocent signs of balloons, kites. A recurring motif in some of my paintings is the figure of the painter who is in the center of the boulevard and paints the entire scene unfolding in front of him, also there are two kindergarten teachers who are walking with the kindergarten children with the state flags that I paint, and loving couples hugging and kissing and family paintings of mother, father and child walking in harmony on the boulevard. Question: Raphael Perez, what characterizes your naive painting? Answer: Most naive paintings have the same characteristics (Definition as it appears in Wikipedia) • Tells a simple story to absorb from everyday life, usually with humans. • The representation of the painter's idealization to reality - the mapping of reality. • Failure to maintain perspective - especially details even in distant details. • Extensive use of repeating patterns - many details. • Warm and bright colors. • Sometimes the emphasis is on outlines. • Most of the characters are flat, lack volume • No interest in texture, expression, correct proportions • No interest in anatomy. • There is not much use of light and shade, the colors create a three-dimensional effect. I find these definitions to be valid for all my naive paintings Question: Raphael Perez, why do you choose the city of Tel Aviv? Answer: I was born in Jerusalem, the capital city which I love very much and also paint, I love the special Bauhaus buildings in Tel Aviv, the ornamental buildings that were built a century ago in the 1920s and 1930s, the beautiful boulevards, towers and modern skyscrapers give you the feeling of the hustle and bustle of a large metropolis and there are quite a few low and tall buildings that are architecturally fascinating in their form the special one Also, the move to Tel Aviv, which is the capital of culture, freedom, and secularism, allowed me to live my life as I chose, to live in a relationship with a man, Jerusalem, which is a traditional city, it is more complicated to live a homosexual life, also, the art world takes place mainly in the city of Tel Aviv, and it is possible that from a professional point of view, this allows I can support myself better in Tel Aviv than in any other city in Israel. Question: Raphael Perez, are the paintings of the city of Tel Aviv different from the paintings of the city of Jerusalem? Answer: Most of the paintings of Jerusalem have an emphasis on the color yellow, gold, the color of the old city walls, the subjects I painted in Jerusalem are mainly a type of idealization of a peaceful life between Jews and Arabs and paintings that deal with the Jewish religious world, a number of paintings depict all shades of the currents of Judaism today In contrast, the Tel Aviv paintings are more colorful, with skyscrapers, the sea, balloons and more secular motifs Question: Raphael Perez, tell me about which buildings and their architects you usually choose in your drawings of cities Answer: My favorite buildings are those that have a special shape that anyone can recognize and are the symbols of the city and you will give several examples: In the city of Tel Aviv, my favorite buildings are: the opera building with its unusual geometric shape, the Yisrotel tower with its special head, the Hail Bo Shalom tower that for years was the symbol of the tallest building in Tel Aviv, the Levin house that looks like a Japanese pagoda, the burgundy-colored Nordeau hotel with the special dome at the end of the building, A pair of Alon towers with the special structure of the sea, Bauhaus buildings typical of Tel Aviv with the special balconies and the special staircase, the Yaakov Agam fountain in Dizengoff square appears in a large part of the paintings, many towers that are in the stock exchange complex, the Aviv towers and other tall buildings on Ayalon, in some of the paintings I took plans An outline of future buildings that need to be built in the city and I drew them even before they were built in reality, In the paintings of Jerusalem, I mainly chose the area of the Old City and East Jerusalem, a painting of the walls of the Old City, the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the El Akchea Mosque, the Tower of David, most of the famous churches in the city, the right hand of Moses, in most of the paintings the Jew is wearing a blue shirt with a red male cord I was in the youth movement and the Arab with a galabia, and in the paintings of the religious public then, Jews with black suits and white shirts, tallitas, kippahs, special hats, synagogues and more I also created three paintings of the city of Haifa and one painting of Safed In the Haifa paintings I drew the university, the Technion, the famous Egged Tower, the Sail Tower, well-known hotels, of course the Baha'i Gardens and the Baha'i Temple, Haifa Port and the boats and other famous buildings in the city Question: Raphael Perez, have you created series of other cities from around the world? Answer: I created series of New York City with all the iconic and famous buildings such as: the Guggenheim Museum, the famous skyscrapers - the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, Lincoln Center, the famous synagogue in the city, the Statue of Liberty, the flags of the United States and other famous buildings Two paintings of London and all its famous sites, Big Ben, famous monuments, the Ferris wheel, Queen Elizabeth and her family, the double bus, the famous public telephone, palaces, famous churches, well-known monuments I created 4 naive paintings of cities in China, a painting of Shanghai, two paintings of the city of Suzhou and a painting of the World Park in the city of Beijing... I chose the famous skyline of Shanghai with all the famous towers, the famous promenade, temples and old buildings, two Paintings of the city of Suzhou with the famous canals, bridges, special gardens, towers and skyscrapers of the city Question: Raphael Perez What is the general idea that accompanies your paintings Answer: To create a good, beautiful, naive, innocent world in which we will see the innovation of the modern city through the skyscrapers in front of small and low buildings that bring the history and past of each country, all with an abundance of vegetation, boulevards, trees Resume, biography, CV of the painter Rafi Peretz and his family Question: When was Raphael Perez born in hebrew his name rafi peretz? Answer: Raphael Perez in Hebrew his name Rafi Peretz was born on March 4, 1965 Question: Where was Raphael Perez born? Answer: Raphael Perez was born in Jerusalem, Israel Question: What is the full name of Raphael Perez? Answer: His full name is Raphael Perez Question: Which art institution did Raphael Perez graduate from? Answer: Raphael Perez graduated from the Visual Arts Center in Be'er Sheva Question: When did Raphael Perez start painting? Answer: Raphael Perez started painting in 1989 Question: When did you start making a living selling art? Answer: Raphael Perez started making a living selling art in 1999 Question: Where does Raphael Perez live and work? Answer: Since 1995, Raphael Perez has been living and working from his studio in Tel Aviv Question: In which military framework did Raphael Perez serve in the IDF? Answer: Raphael Perez served in the artillery corps Question: Raphael Perez, what jobs did he work after his military service? Answer: Raphael Perez worked for 15 years in education in therapeutic settings for children and taught arts and movement Question: How many brothers and sisters does Raphael Perez, the Israeli painter, have? Answer: There are seven children in total, with the painter 5 sons and two daughters, that means the painter Raphael Perez has 4 more brothers and two sisters Question: What do the brothers and sisters of the painter Raphael Perez do? Answer: The elder brother David Peretz Perez was involved in the field of religious studies, the sister Hana Peretz Perez is involved in the field of education, a kindergarten teacher and child care, the brother Avi Peretz Perez who is in the United States today is a conservative rabbi but in the past was involved in education and therapy, the brother Asher Peretz Perez is involved in the fields of creativity and jewelry The twin brother Mickey Peretz Perez is a well-known industrial designer and seller. The younger sister Shlomit Peretz Perez works in a managerial position at Bezeq. Question: Tell me about the parents of the painter Raphael PerezAnswer: The painter Raphael Perez's parents are Shimon Perez Peretz and Eliza Alice Ben Yair, they were married in 1950 in Jerusalem, both were born in Morocco and immigrated to Israel in 1949, Shimon Peretz worked in a building in his youth and later as a receptionist at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, Eliza Alice Peretz dealt in child care Kindergarten, working in kindergartens and of course taking care of and raising her seven children
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רפי פרץ צייר אמן ישראלי ראליסטי ראליסטים הראליסטי הראליסטים הריאליסטים הריאליסטי ריאליסטי פיגורטיבי הפיגורטיבי פיגורטיבית הפיגורטובית דיוקן הדיוקן הדיוקנאות בדיוקן ודיוקן מדיוקן לדיוקן דיוקנאות ודיוקנאות מדיוקנאות לדיוקנאות מדיוקנאות פנים הפנים פני עכשווי מודרני הצייר הישראלי העכשווי המודרני אמנות ישראלית עכשווית מודרנית האמנות הישראלית העכשווית המודרנית אומנות העכשוויות הישראליות העכשוויות המודרניות ציור ציורים הציור הציורים וציור וציורים לציור לציורים מציור מציורים מצייר מציירים ומצייר ומציירים שמצייר שמציירים של עם גדול גדולים הגדול הגדולים והגדול והגדולים תערוכה תערוכות התערוכה התערוכות והתערוכה והתערוכה לתערוכה לתערוכות גלריה גלריות והגלריה והגלריות הגלריה הגלריות לגלריה לגלריות מהגלריה מהגלריות אדום כתום צהוב ירוק כחול סגול שחור לבן האדום הכתום הצהוב הירוק הכחול השחור הסגול הלבן שחורים לבנים אדומים כתומים צהובים ירוקים סגולים האדומים הכתומים הצהובים הירוקים הסגולים השחורים הלבנים צבעים צבע הצבעים הצבע בצבעים בצבע לצבע לצבעים והצבע והצבעים צובע צובעים הצובע הצובעים האמן האמנים האומנים לאמנים לאומנים והאומנים ציירים הציירים והציירים לציירים מהציירים מהאמנים אומנות האמנות באמנות לאמנות ואמנות באומנות לאומנות והאומנות אמנותי האמנות האומנותי האומנות תערוכה תערוכות התערוכה התערוכות הגלריה הגלריות בגלריה בגלריות והגלריה והגלריות מהגלריה מהגלריות מהתערוכה מהתערוכות חדש חדשני החדש החדשני חדשנית החדשנית מקורי המקורי המקורית מקורית מיוחד המיוחד המיוחדים מיוחדים המפורסמים המפורסם מפורסם מפורסמים בישראל ישראל וישראל מלאי בציורי ציורי וציורי לציורי מציורי אקריליק באקריליק על בד קנווס קנבס קנוס בקנווס בדים חזקים עזים החזקים העזים לבית לסלון למשרד בית סלון משרד לבתים למשרדים משרדים בתים למכירה מכירה המכירה מכירות מוכר המוכר קונה הקונה קונים הקונים בקנייה במכירה פומבית הפומבית לרכוש רכוש ברכישה ישירה
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Es curioso cómo cambian los colores del bosque según la zona por la que pasas. De verdes y amarillos pasamos de repente a anaranjados y rojizos, y luego volveremos a los verdes y amarillos.
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Etxarri-Aranatz, Nafarroa.
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Christ, who has been appointed for you--even Jesus. Act 3:19-20
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The Seed of Tauba
أسْتَغْفِرُ اللهَ رَبي مِنْ كُلِ ذَنبٍ
وَأتُوبُ إلَيهِ
I ask forgiveness of my sins from Allah who is my Lord
and I turn towards Him.
توبوا من ذنوبكم و سوء أدبكم
هذه التوبة غرسي في أرض قلوبكم بناء أبنيه عندكم،
أنقض بناء الشيطان
و أبن بناء الرحمن
و ألحقكم بمولاكم و ربكم عزوجل
“Repent for your misdeeds and your inappropriate regard!
This repentance is my seed in the soil of your hearts
so that I will make the foundation of a building for you.
I will demolish the building of Shaitaan
and make a building of Allah Ar Rahman
and I will make you rejoin with your Maula and Rabb, your Master
and your Lord, Exalted is His Majesty.”
Ghaus Pak (ra)
Ahmed Javaid Sahib had said that identifying flaws and shortcoming of character and behaviour were essential. Just identify them, he had said. I realized why the emphasis on the exercise was heavy.
From that identification by the aql to make disappear ignorance of one’s own self would follow remorse. It would be inevitable. At least for the person who might reflect truthfully on how that feature of their personality had come as an obstacle between them and their Lord.
From that regret would be expressed tauba. The repentance would ask, insist, of forgiveness. A prayer would be uttered. A dua would save the day!
Only days ago I had come across one of the most powerful verses around forgiveness. Giving it was truly Allah Al Ghaffar’s Declaration of love as well as mercy. The former was for His Love (salutations and greetings upon the Mercy of the Universe by His Lord of the Universe). The latter was for his enemies. For it was offered before it was asked for!
First Subhanahu said He wouldn’t destroy them whilst Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon Ar Rauf by Allah Ar Rauf) was amidst them even though that is what they deserved for rejecting him. A trial for them would become a trial for him. Instead then He would grant them leeway because they might seek forgiveness and so He would forgive them.
وَمَا كَانَ ٱللَّهُ لِیُعَذِّبَهُمۡ وَأَنتَ فِیهِمۡۚ
وَمَا كَانَ ٱللَّهُ مُعَذِّبَهُمۡ وَهُمۡ یَسۡتَغۡفِرُونَ
But Allah will not punish them while you (are) among them,
Allah will not punish them while they seek forgiveness.
Surah Al Anfal, Verse 33
Tafseer e Jilani
Wa ma kana Allahu li-yuaddibahum: And Allah has nothing to gain from punishing them, although they were deserving of intense punishment and an exemplary chastisement and destruction complete because of their refuting you and rejecting your Book…
Wa anta fi-him: whilst you are among them meaning that as long as you are among them and in their midst and in their places, then if Allah punished them, certainly it would afflict you like it would afflict them…
Wa: and if it became possible that We would choose you and save you in the moment of punishing them…
Ma kana Allahu mu’addibahum: Allah will still not punish them and will not intend to torment them and uproot them…
Wa hum yastaghfiroon: while they are supplicating before Him for forgiveness i.e. it is expected from them, despite their opposing imaan, faith that they might seek forgiveness in the future, unlike those nations who were destroyed before (because they would not ask for forgiveness ever).
It was extraordinary!
The Quran says that Subhanahu creates veils between Man and his heart when he is disobedient:
وَٱعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَحُولُ بَيْنَ ٱلْمَرْءِ وَقَلْبِهِۦ
وَأَنَّهُۥٓ إِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ
And know that Allah comes between Man and his heart,
and that to Him you will be gathered.
Surah Al Anfal, Verse 24
Wa’lamo annallaha: And be certain that Allah Al Muttali’u, The Perfect Informer, who knows what is hidden in His Servants…
Yahoolu: diverts and creates an envelope…
Bayna al mar’ay: between Man, the one who has structured himself in a human skeleton, which is specific upon on the fixture of true balance…
Wa qalbihi: and his qalb, the Seat of Recognition within the heart, which encompasses within it Allah Al Haqq, The Truth who is Allah Al Munazza, The One Purified of all, free of being imprisoned, and Allah Al Mubri’o, The One Above Everything in being encompassed or in any limitation, (He creates between Man and his qalb) many veils.
So these veils and coverings always remain, hanging, between Man and his qalb, so the scent of love and closeness cannot reach him, that scent which is Al Muwaddi’, which leads towards fana, dissolution which results in baqa, everlastingness.
And this opening of the doors of Divine Love and Closeness is received only with ikhlas, sincerity, and tasleem, surrender and tafweed, submission and tawakkal, reliance and tabbattal, detachment and Tauheed Al Musqit, One-ness which makes drop everything extra.
Wa: And over all…
Annahu: Indeed, He…
Ilayhi: towards him, Subhanahu and no one else but Him, will rise the shadows in dissolution and will rise the invalid tangibles…
Tuhsharoon: gathered, returned like shadows return to the Creator of Shadows.
That was my favourite image of myself, being a shadow returning to the Creator of Shadows.
Each choice was like a road that had a fork in it. Even when it overtly seemed like there was no option. One path was always of obedience to the nafs and Shaitaan, the other to hear and answer the call of the one sent to teach as the guide, the warner, the witness, the bringer of glad tidings, the sun lit; Nabi Kareem, who Ghaus Pak (ra) calls Al Mazhar Al Ilahaya Az Zaati, the appearance of the Essence of The Divine.
He, who was Allah’s Jamaal, Beauty (Allah Al Jameel pours his greetings and salutations upon him and his family) was the only one for whom Subhanahu deliberately uses a verb (singular when the dual exists in Arabic) in the Quran so as to render them one and not two when it came to the invitation towards His Tauheed, His One-ness.
“Because the calling of the Rasool (peace be upon him and his family) is in fact the calling of Allah Al Haqq…”
يَٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱسْتَجِيبُوا۟ لِلَّهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُمْ لِمَا يُحْيِيكُمْ
O you who believe!
Respond to Allah and His Messenger when he calls you to what gives you life.
Surah Al Anfal, Verse 24
Tafseer e Jilani
Then said Allah Subhanahu, as a call to the believers, as a reminder for them and as a teaching:
Ya ayyohalladina aamino: O ye who attained to faith, it is the requirement of your imaan, faith, to answer the Call of Allah and answer the call of His Rasool (peace be upon him and his family)…
Istajeebo lillahe: respond to Him, be obedient to what is His Command and His Order and stay away from what He forbids…
Wa lir-Rasool: and His Rasool (peace be upon him and his family) adopt his sunnat, practice, and his adaab, manners and his ikhlaq, etiquette.
Ida da’akum: When he calls you, any one of them, because the calling of the Rasool (peace be upon him and his family) is in fact the calling of Allah Al Haqq…
Lima yuhhyeekum: because he gives you life-giving messages from the Al Aloom Ad Dineeya, knowledges of religion and Al Ma’aaraf Al Haqeeqa, the recognitions of the realities, bearing fruits of Mukashafaat, unveilings and Mushahidaat, witnessings which had become faded for the people who were on the right path and the ones on the wrong path, both (i.e. forgotten by them both and unclear for them).
Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon him and his family by their Lord God) was the reminder for all in the Universe. Those on the right path and those on the wrong. For both would forget again and again.
Ghaus Pak (ra) saying was the reason Rajab came into my focus last year. A 90 day cycle was unheard of in spirituality. 900 years of striving couldn’t ensure a result!
رجب شھر الزرع و شعبان شھر السقی و رمضان شھر الحصاد
و کل یحصد ما زرع و یجزی ما صنع
و من ضیع الزراعۃ ندم یوم حصادہ و احلف ظنہ مع سوء معادہ
Rajab is the month for sowing seeds, Sha’ban is the month for watering, and Ramadan is the month for reaping.
And all reap what they sow and will be rewarded for what they did.
And the one who wasted the (season of) planting regretted it on the day of harvest
and found it to be against what he thought would be the result.
Then the seeds had been about increased, never before performed, extra rituals of worship, nawafil. They were offered from the mind though, not the essence of my being, even though the intention to do them came out of a love for the Imam (as) in my heart.
This time I longed for my acts to be only be about adab and akhlaq, regard and manners, behaviour, character and morality.
Whether they were inspired by the most honoured Ahl e Bait, the family of Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon them by Subhanahu), his companions or his followers who became the Friends of Allah. For there was only one standard that was in replication anyway.
“Glory be to Allah, whose praise should precede every writing and every speech!
May the blessings of Allah rest upon Muhammad, His Prophet and His Apostle, and on his family and companions, by whose guidance error is escaped!”
Imam Al Ghazali (ra)
At first I wanted my seeds to come from what I had heard were the foundational traits of Nabi Pak (salutations and greetings upon his perfection of manner by his Lord who raised him and his family such):
Haya – modesty.
Sakha – generosity.
Murrawwat – affection.
Tawadda’a – humility.
All took their root in sincerity. That sincerity of obedience and surrender was expressed in perfection by one.
قُلْ إِنِّىٓ أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أَعْبُدَ ٱللَّهَ مُخْلِصًۭا لَّهُ ٱلدِّينَ
Say, "Indeed, I, I am commanded that I worship Allah,
being sincere to Him in the religion.
Surah Az Zumar, Verse 11
Tafseer e Jilani
Then said Subhanahu, Exalted is He, commanding His Habeeb (salutations and greetings be upon him and his family by His Lord and His Angels) in order to guide him and to convey to His (other) ordinary worshippers, a thing He said that is specified for wisdom, a wisdom empty of the desires of the nafs of showing-off (of the self), only and only for wishing well and perfection (for others);
Qul: Say O Messenger who completes Messenger-hood (peace be upon you)…
Inni umirtu: Indeed I have been ordered from My Lord…
An a’buda Allaha: that I worship Allah as is His Right to be worshipped and be obedient to Him as His Right to be obeyed…
Mukhlisal lahu deen: bringing sincerity into the religion and offering surrender from myself in such a way that I make both, my obedience with sincerity and my surrender with sincerity, the means of reaching Him.
So that I gain recognition of Him as is His Right to be recognized and He pours upon my heart the purified waters of His Tauheed, One-ness and His Karamat, His Honour.
Waters from seas sweet!
But then Ghaus Pak (ra) told me what the seed should be. It was a seed of tauba.
“Repent for your misdeeds and your inappropriate regard!
This repentance is my seed in the soil of your hearts
so that I will make the foundation of a building for you.
I will demolish the building of Shaitaan
and make a building of Allah Ar Rahman
and I will make you rejoin with your Maula and Rabb, your Master
and your Lord, Exalted is His Majesty.”
If I chose repentance, then the seed wouldn’t even be mine. He had promised that he would become the seed. In the soil of my own heart. Shaitaan would lose influence over me as just he did over Amir Muawia (ratu). My remorse, my regret at all times would protect me from him.
The watering of that seed happens in Shabaan. It is the month that Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon his mercy upon us and his family’s) calls his own. So I thought that perhaps he, himself, would be the water that is poured on that seed.
Like rain that Subhanahu describes thus:
Anzalna: We sent down from the Station of Our Generosity…
Mina: from…
As Sama’i ma’an tahooran: the skies, rain pure, utmost in purity, highest, extreme in its purpose (of purification).
The month of Ramadan, Subhanahu calls His Own. Fasting is for Him. It is the only ritual for which He makes Himself the reward. Could it be His Qurb?
It was making sense why Ghaus Pak (ra) only mentioned one seed and no other. In my spiritual journey that I write about incessantly, one thing had made crystal clear these past months. The relationship between possibilities and shirrk, the intertwining of taqwa and tauba.
What had been in my control all along, in all of my decisions, was the exercising of the don’ts. I did things because I didn’t want to do them anymore. I didn’t want to do them because I started to care about the consequences, the most imperative of which became Subhanahu’s Displeasure, His Ghadab. That only came because when the first time I was terrified of my Master’s displeasure. Before that I was unaware of the gravity of my actions careless about their consequences, forgetting both. I was ghafil.
The connection between taqwa and tauba, then I learnt, is that one lies within the other. From the refrain follows naturally the repentance for not doing it earlier. It comes because the forgiveness of Subhanahu is a “breeze of good news and glad tidings and spirituality.”
The Chosen Ones, the Extraordinary, they live in a state of tauba from the start. It in kneaded in their essence.
Ghaus Pak: “The one who was loved by Allah from the beginning, He makes them pure in the world from that which might distract him even for a single moment from His Being.”
The ordinary reach it by way of mindfulness.
قُلۡ یَـٰعِبَادِ ٱلَّذِینَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱتَّقُوا۟ رَبَّكُمۡۚ
Say, "O My Servants those who attained to faith!
Be mindful of your Lord.”
Surah Az Zumar, Verse 10
Tafseer e Jilani
Qul: Say, Ya Akmal Ar Rusul (Allah sends blessings and salutations upon you since the beginning of Creation till the end), O Messenger who completes the Messenger-hood, give this message on Our Behalf, calling out to the selected sincere amongst my Servants…
Ya ibadi: O My Worshippers, by attaching them with His Essence making them special and honouring them…
Alladina aamano: those who attained to faith from amongst you in the One-ness of My Essence and My Appearance according to My Affairs and My Ever changing-ness in accordance with My Names and Attributes, the requirement of your faith is taqwa, mindfulness from the demands of your desires…
Ittaqu Rabbukum: be conscious of your Lord and stay away from what is forbidden by Him and what He has ordered prevented for you and characterize yourself with His Commands and know that He…
Stay away…from the forbidden, the prevented. It was a don’t!
It made me remember the beginning of the Quran. The second line of Al Baqarah. It said in total clarity; the Book was only a guidance for the one who was Muttaqi, who were conscious of being seen by Him at all times and therefore exercised restraint.
Since the verses in the Quran appear in the order of importance, in terms of a ranking it seemed to be; seeking refuge from Shaitaan, then praise of Subhanahu, the expression of gratitude, a supplication (all in Surah Fateha) and then taqwa, being in a constant state of mindfulness of Him. The start of Al Baqarah.
ذَٰلِكَ ٱلۡكِتَـٰبُ لَا رَیۡبَۛ فِیهِۛ هُدࣰى لِّلۡمُتَّقِینَ
That (is) the book, there is no doubt in it, it is a guidance for the ones conscious of Allah.
Surah Al Baqarah, Verse 2
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Dalika al Kitab-u: That is the Book لَّا یَأۡتِیهِ ٱلۡبَـٰطِلُ مِنۢ بَیۡنِ یَدَیۡهِ وَلَا مِنۡ خَلۡفِهِۦۖ falsehood cannot approach it (the Quran) from before or from behind. The levels of its exaltedness are far from comprehension. It is the gatherer of the ranks of the Exalted Names and Attributes in the Realms of the Unseen and Seen. It is gradually revealed upon your qalb, O Akmal Ar Rusul, O Messenger who completes the Messenger-hood (salutations and greetings upon you and your family by your Lord), compiling in totality the order of the creation of the Universe from the beginning till the end, such that there is no inconsistency in it at all…
La raiba fihi: (such that) there is no possibility of doubt in it because, indeed, it is revealed from Us, its words and its meanings.
Words: Ghaus Pak (ra) means that they make helpless the most prominent of the orators and the most famous of the well-spoken from competing with the shortest verse of it, even though their claims were boastful.
Where as the meaning, it is inclusive of the totality of all the states of realities seen and secrets unseen, which were and which will be in both the worlds, this and the next and it is not possible to know it (that totality) and describe what all is in it, in terms of its wonderful patterns, except for the one who is the knower of the Unseen.
And We only sent it upon you, O one who is deserving of the matter of Messenger-hood and Vice-regency, so you (salutations and blessings upon your qalb that receives and reveals the Quran) can guide by it towards the Ocean of Divine Reality and you can guide through it also the one who is obedient to you from the ones who are walking in bewilderment in the wilderness of being astray, because in it…
Huda-n: is guidance, great…
Lil Muttaqeen: for the ones who safe-guard with compliance to His Commands and avoid what He disallows for their selves from the impurities of sins forbidden with true purification and a reaching towards the real rank and destination.
Safe-guards, avoids, disallows – don’ts!
I could not become grateful. I could only decide I didn’t want to be ungrateful. I could not become generous. I could only decide not to be a miser. I could not decide I will be patient. I could only decide I didn’t want to be impatient. I couldn’t decide to be selfless. I could only want to not be selfish. I couldn’t become sensitive. I could just desire to not be insensitive. Even in rituals, I could not decide to pray the two
Sunnah of Fajr without fail. I could only intend to not miss it.
Each time I exercised a don’t, mindful of it, conscious of it like the Imam Ghazali (ra) became, in my being rather than my mind, I reaped a fruit. I was rewarded for the taqwa, for the restraint. When I failed in the don’t, I felt regret.
The best example of in following something Maula e Kayinaat (as) said which was also the most difficult. “Even if a man came to you riding on a red camel (the most expensive of the time) and asks you for something, don’t let him leave empty handed.”
He said empty handed for us. He probably gave the man everything he possessed!
I could not tell myself to always say yes to everyone who asked me for money. That would never happen. My nafs, which I trained to be a miser, would never allow it. Most often I found that when I didn’t give many people anything at all I thought nothing of it.
But if I consciously decided I didn’t want to say no to anyone, then I would at least always give them something. A little, a lot, something. Why? Because the promise was to myself. If I broke it, I was a liar. If I didn’t, I felt remorse. If for nothing else, then for being a liar.
Any change that came within me was the fruit of emulating a practice of Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon him and his beloved family) or a Prophet (as) or a Friend of God (ra). Because they did it and they told me to do it. They told me how to do it. When I connected the act with them, the manner of executing it became “excellent.”
It came with ease.
فَأَمَّا مَنۡ أَعۡطَىٰ وَٱتَّقَىٰ
وَصَدَّقَ بِٱلۡحُسۡنَىٰ
فَسَنُیَسِّرُهُۥ لِلۡیُسۡرَىٰ
Then as for (him) who gives and is mindful,
and believes in the best,
then We will ease him towards the ease.
Surah Al Layl, Verses 5-8
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Fa amma man aa’ta: So as for the one who gives from that which he was given from Al Haqq from rizq, sustenance, in (both) form and meaning, along with khushu, humility and khudu, submission and khuloos, sincerity, of intention and inner most feelings and different kinds of obedience and worship commanded for him…
Wa attaqa: and is mindful in totality of that which is forbidden and that which is prohibited about which Allah’s warnings of restraint have come in them…
Wa saddaqa bil husna: and he affirms the limitless demands of the Names of Allah and the effects of His Exalted Attributes which can never be counted and never be enumerated…
Fa sanuyassirruhu: then We will prepare for him and give him ability…
Lil yusra: for ease towards the way, which is easy, connecting towards the goal of Tauheed, One-ness and Ma’rifa, Divine Recognition, that brings deliverance from the darkness of doubts and the shadows of paranoia.
Tauba was my wish to not be the same person. It was my wish that I was dying to change. It was my reward for being forgiven.
Forgiveness
قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّی ظَلَمۡتُ نَفۡسِی فَٱغۡفِرۡ لِی فَغَفَرَ لَهُۥۤۚ
إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلۡغَفُورُ ٱلرَّحِیمُ
He, the Prophet Musa (as) said, "My Lord! Indeed, I [I] have wronged my soul, so forgive me."
Then He, Subhanahu, forgave him.
Indeed He, He (is) the Oft-Forgiving, the Most Merciful.
Surah Al Qasas, Verse 16
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Qala: He said, the Prophet Musa (as), in humility before Allah Al Haqq, returning to Him, repentant of that which happened from him, pleading with Him with only regret…
Rabbi: O my Lord who raises me with the different kinds of Lutf, Affection and Karam, Generosity between me and my enemy and purifies me from the distress that is causing me suffering xxx by the demand of Your Jood, Your Bounty…
Inni: Indeed, I, with the steps taken in this matter loathsome…
Dalamtu nafsi: wronged my own self and offer it to you for Your Punishment because of the exiting from the demands of Your Boundaries by the killing of this man without the permission of the Shari’a…
Faghfir li: so forgive me, O my Lord, my sin after that I repented before you and returned to you from my sin, remorseful and seeking refuge, towards Your Door, returning…
Faghafara lahu: so his Lord forgave him his sin after he returned to him sincerely…
Innahu huwa al Ghafoor-u: Indeed, He is Al Ghafoor, The Forgiver of all sins of His Servants after they returned to him, in humility, disappointed, as losers…
Ar Rahim: He is Merciful for them accepting their tauba, repentance, after they were sincere in it and after he repented and returned about what was they did in error.
Ahmed Javaid Sahib said in a lecture once that a relationship loses its meaning when the emotion attached to it disappears. It is the emotion that defines the rights and duties attached to any bond between two people. With a younger person, its shafqat, kindness. With an older its ehtaram, respect. With a contemporary, its muhabbat, love.
Hence, he says, the absence of the emotion makes it devoid of ehsaas, feeling. Then it is simply rendered to be a delusion. It has no existence. It bears no reality.
It made sense. That was why extreme carelessness and indifference, total unawareness could come to exist in behaviour. No matter how paramount the relationship. Why akhlaq experienced sudden death in relationships that should have been life-long. There was no longer a fear of consequence from displeasing the other. The relationship being void of emotion is what allowed that indifference.
What kills emotion? I don’t know. So I asked Qari Sahib.
He told me this, “The first thing is that Allah Subhanahu places the inclination for another in one’s heart. It cannot be created. It cannot be caused. When it is pure, it is a blessing and it is endowed. It is the people themselves that make the feeling leave.
One reason is the tongue and what comes forth from it. That is from the prodding of Shaitaan in terms of anger etc. Another is lust that corrupts that feeling. For the world or others in relationships which are forbidden. Again Shaitaan.
The other even more important reason emotions become numb, appear dead is ingratitude.”
The effect of the blessing had to appear, be seen.
If you hide the blessings from Allah Azzo Jal and did not express gratitude for it, He will sieze it from you.
Those who were in a state of mindfulness of their akhlaq, its effect on others, taufeeq, ability, was granted. They became of the Saliheen; the ones who corrected and reformed themselves.
It was perfectly expressed in the prayer of the Prophet Yusuf (as) that I had been saying for months not realizing the effect it was having on my life:
تَوَفَّنِى مُسْلِمًۭا وَأَلْحِقْنِى بِٱلصَّلِحِينَ رَبِّ
Cause me to die as a Muslim, and join me with the righteous."
Surah Yusuf, Verse 101
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Then prayed Hazrat Yousuf (as) for himself and he said softly to his Lord, a prayer, that uttered from him only with wisdom, intellect and reasoning, with his invocation:
Rabbi: O my Lord who raises me, by Your Unmerited Affection and Your Bounty, with different kinds of guidance and favour that you have granted me…
…
Tawwafini: Make me die and take my soul…
Muslim-an: surrendering, entrusting all my matters to you…
Walhiqni: and enjoin me, with Your Special Favour…
Bi saliheen: with the righteous ones who are the ones who reformed their selves in this life and the Hereafter until they achieved success from You with the honour of meeting You.
The same blessed Prophet who taught me that self-deceit would only yield me living like the dead. Unable to see, unable to hear. Veil upon veil upon veil. I had to stop absolving my nafs, no matter the circumstance. It was
Shaitaan’s trap: “rationalizations.” In any situation with anyone, I had to take its failing upon my self. Regardless of who did what. Regardless of innocence and guilt.
No one offered the proof of that like Sayyadna Yusuf (as).
وَمَآ أُبَرِّئُ نَفْسِىٓ ۚ
إِنَّ ٱلنَّفْسَ لَأَمَّارَةٌۢ بِٱلسُّوٓءِ إِلَّا مَا رَحِمَ رَبِّىٓ ۚ
إِنَّ رَبِّى غَفُورٌۭ رَّحِيمٌۭ
"And yet I am not trying to absolve myself.
Indeed, the nafs Ammara is a certain inciter of evil,
unless my Lord bestows Mercy.
Indeed, my Lord (is) Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
Surah Yusuf, Verse 53
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The he, Hazrat Yusuf (as) said:
Wa ma ubarri’o: And I do not absolve and do not justify…
Nafsi: my nafs, my self, from furataat, excessiveness and ghafalaat, forgetfulness and shameful thoughts and repulsive deeds according to the demands of the organs of lust and animalistic desires and how can I absolve myself and justify it?
Inna an nafsa: Indeed the nafs, the base self, that has been embodied in the nature of human beings…
La-Ammaarat-un: the forceful commanding of which is by its nature towards …
Bis su’: wrong-doing and fasaad, corruption and its focus upon that whenever it’s free and is its nature…
Illa ma rahima Rabbi: except for the one upon whom is bestowed the Mercy of my Lord i.e. Allah protects that nafs by His Endless Mercy and Affection from its transgressions and the whisperings of Satan towards it.
Inna Rabbi: Indeed my Lord, who has raised me with safeguarding from sin and with virtuousness…
Ghafoor-an: is All Forgiving of that which has happened from me from the occurences of my nafs…
Raheem-un: is All Merciful. He bestows Mercy towards me with His Fazal, Bounty and He preserves me with His Lutf, Kindness, from those things that make me distant from His Kunuf, Protection and His Jawaar, Safety.
The idea of focusing upon what not to do yielded a revelation. What applies to my own self also applied to a relationship with another.
If there was a problem that emerged in it I should not focus on what I could do but rather on what I should NOT do. The first took its root in desperation. The overtures, when unreturned, caused heartache and agonizing disappointment. The doing of the action caused the birth of hope that it would be reciprocated. It created the expectation that it would be noticed, appreciated.
I knew the drill. It would begin with me thinking of myself as “good” courtesy of Shaitaan’s imprisoning of my nafs with that whispering. Never would I reach the realization that my expectation of an outcome, of a change in another, was the cardinal sin; shirrk!
I had just experienced that with the young man in Karachi with whom I exercised patience simply but vowing not to be impatient. With a prayer, calling upon Subhanahu as my Musta’aan as did Hazrat Yaqoub (as) and leaving the matter with Him for resolve.
Along side the dua I practiced the attribute of murrawwat from the akhlaq from the blessed person who Allah’s Beloved (salutations and greetings upon the one declared the guide of the Universe by Allah Al Hadi). His instruction to not demean others publicly. There was no one else from the world then left in the equation. It was me, my guide and my Lord.
Then ability was granted. The nafs could not grant ability. It only stoked its egoism when it took on missions. Ability was only granted by Allah Al Mutawaffiq, The Granter of taufeeq. Sometimes it arrived with simply a tear that held in it helplessness. In the utterance of a prayer in the words of the Chosen!
Every time my nafs tried to do something good, it lasted but for a short time. Then I regressed. My qalb changed and then changed back again. What promised steadfastness, stability was up to The Divine. Hence the prayer of Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon his heart):
يَا مُقَلِّبَ الْقُلُوبِ ثَبِّتْ قَلْبِي عَلَى دِينِكَ
O Changer of Hearts forever changing!
Make my qalb steadfast upon your religion.
When I pondered upon Ghaus Pak (ra) being the seed in my heart I felt overwhelmed. Who would have thought my heart would one day become hallowed ground!
The blessed of Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon that name) only appears in the Quran four times. When I came across an instance in writing this piece where it did, I was excited to study the context of its appearance.
وَٱلَّذِینَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ وَءَامَنُوا۟ بِمَا نُزِّلَ عَلَىٰ مُحَمَّدࣲ وَهُوَ ٱلۡحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّهِمۡ كَفَّرَ عَنۡهُمۡ سَیِّءَاتِهِمۡ وَأَصۡلَحَ بَالَهُمۡ
And those who believe and do righteous deeds, and believe in what is revealed to Muhammad (salutations and greetings upon him and his deeds),
and it (is) the truth from their Lord,
He will remove from them their misdeeds, and relieve their concerns.
Surah Muhammad, Verse 2
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Walladina aamano: And those who attained to imaan, faith in Allah and in His Rasool (salutations and greetings upon him and his honoured family by their Lord)…
Wa: and along with that…
Aamilo salihaat: do righteous deeds persistently, that create closeness for them with Allah…
Wa aamilu ala bima nuzzila ala Muhammad: and believe in what was revealed upon Muhammad (salutations and greetings upon his blessed name) i.e. in the totality of what has been revealed to him…
Wa: and they attest to all that is descent upon him…
Huwa al haqq: it is the truth, truthful according to the happenings, (the truth that is) descending…
Mir Rabbihim: from their Lord, without doubt and confusion…
Kaffara: He erases and removes…
Anhum: from them, Subhanahu…
Sayyiatihim: their bad deeds i.e. their consequences and their punishment from them…
Wa aslaha: and He reforms what was attached to them (those sinful deeds), and He changes the consequences that follow…
Baalahum: in their states of being i.e. He makes their states the best in religion and in the world according to the measure of this world and the Hereafter and He compensates them with the best of rewards.
Wa aslaha: He, Subhanahu, reforms…
The definition of aslaha, to reform, was different when it was Subhanahu doing the reforming for His Servant. It was the reward of deeds that were mindful of disobedience, thus allowing closeness. It was the reward of believing in His Seal of Prophet-hood (salutations and greetings upon his noor). Sins would be erased, their consequences would be removed, they would change so that states changed. To become the best!
Subhan Allah!
One page that would keep opening for me at the shrines was from the end of Surah Al Mo’minoon. It was always the last page. I kept translating different verses from it until I reached the last verse. It was a supplication that Subhanahu was teaching His Beloved (salutations and greetings upon the mercy of the Universe and his blessed family by His Lord Ar Raheem).
It became my dua!
وَقُل رَّبِّ ٱغۡفِرۡ وَٱرۡحَمۡ وَأَنتَ خَیۡرُ ٱلرَّٰحِمِینَ
And say, "My Lord! Forgive and have mercy,
and You are the Best of those who show mercy."
Surah Al Mo’minoon, Verse 118
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Wa: And after that Subhanahu made it certain, the success for the Mo’mineen, the believers, Al Muwwahideen, who are certain in the One-ness of Allah, in the beginning of this Surah and He deprived the Kafireen, the deniers of truth, Al Mushrikeen, the ones who associate others with Allah in the end (of the Surah)…
Qul: Say O Akmal Ar Rusul, O Messenger who completes the Messenger-hood (greetings and salutations upon him and his family by His Allah who loves him), educating everyone who considers you his leader and follows in your footsteps and warning them as well of this and reminding them…
Rabbi: O my Lord, who raised me by your Kunf, Protection and Jawar, Safe Guarding…
Ighfir: forgive me and hide for me my selfish, egoistic self from my inner eyes…
Warham: and have mercy upon me by the negation of the essence of my nature and dissolve it in Your Essence.
Wa anta: And You with Your Essence and Your Names and Your Attributes…
Khair ur Rahimeen: are the Best of the Merciful, who are also demands of Your Attributes and reflections of Your Names and everything is with You and from You and there is no one who is Merciful except You and there is no Lord for me other than You.
For the first time I noticed that ask did not have in it a time frame. It was a plea for now as well as the Day of Judgement. It was a plea for now!
Normally in my translations of the tafseer of the verses, Qari Sahib and I never got into how Ghaus Pak (ra) starts and ends the exegesis of each Surah. There would be the opening section addressing the ones especially chosen by Allah Subhanahu. At the end would then be a section addressing the ordinary.
For some reason, Qari Sahib sent me the closing section of Surah Al Mo’minoon and we translated it.
Khatim as Surah – Al Mo’minoon
“O Muhammadi (his servant)! Upon you, as Al Mutahaqqiq, the one steadfast upon the station of worship, is compulsory this prayer (above) which you were made to hear by Allah Al Haqq through the tongue of your Prophet (greetings and salutations upon him and his family O Beloved by your Lord who chose his words) and be forever in its utterance, especially in your seclusion and after your prayers, determined upon it, holding on to this firmly.
Hear this prayer with acceptance and willingness until it becomes rooted in your heart and be trained in it till your state speaks through it without help from your tongue.
And when you are certain and settled in this rank, you will have completed the station of worship.
So for you, after that the progression of your worship is perfected by taufeeq, ability, granted from Allah and love from Him (you will reach) towards the rank of dissolution in Allah and being everlasting in His Permanence.
And this will not be completed except by the disappearance of your nature and vanishing of your personality and your being (an ordinary) human, until it is dropped from you, your personality completely and your individuality is dissolved overall.
And at this point you will be successful by how much you will be fated in success and you will reach what you are ordained to reach and there is no purpose except Allah and no end except Him.
It was comforting that all I had to do is bring a verse in to my state. Be in synch with the ask in it with the sincerity of my heart. That was easy; I awaited forgiveness. I was desperate for my selfish ego to be hidden from me. I wanted my tabyat, the acquired nature to be dissolved, to entirely disappear.
I memorized the prayer and its utterance came forth from my tongue through my days and in my nights.
The other prayer that had impacted my life had come by way of Imam Zain ul Abedin (as). After I had heard that his prayers “are the saplings for nisbat, association, with Nabi Pak’s (salutations and greetings upon him and his family by Allah Al Wudood) duas, I asked Qari Sahib if he had the book mentioned in the lecture; It was called Saheefa e Sajjadia.
He did and he sent it to me. It was in pdf format. I could barely read anything, the print was so small. I decided to do what I always do. Go to a random page and see what came up for me.
Almost all the prayers were long spanning several lines on an entire page. On the one I landed, the title was “The prayer for his own self and his loved ones in his family and his friends.”
On the translated Urdu page was a paragraph break. The first line of that paragraph was the supplication I picked and it was this:
اللَّهُمَّ أَغْنِنَا عَنْ هِبَةِ الْوَهَابِيْنَ بِهِبَتِكَ،
وَاكْفِنَا وَحْشَةَ الْقَاطِعِين بِصِلَتِكَ،
حَتّى لا نَرْغَبَ إلَى أحَد مَعَ بَذْلِكَ،
وَلاَ نَسْتَوْحِشَ مِنْ أحَد مَعَ فَضْلِكَ
Allahuma aghnina an hibbat il wahhabiyaani bi-hibatika
wakfina wahshat-il qaatiyeena bi silatika hatta la narghaba ila ahdim ma’ bi-dalika
wa la nastauhisha min ahdim ma’ fadlika
My first focus was upon the words that took their root in the Exalted Names of Allah. One was in the 99, Al Ghani. I looked up the exact meaning to understand the plea. What was I asking for myself when I said, ‘Aghnina - Make us ghani…?’
Ghani: From the root gha-noon-yeh which has the following classical Arabic connotations: to be free from wants or needs, to be self-sufficient, independent, to be able to do without help from others, to be content, satisfied, flourishing.
The other Beautiful Name was Al Kafi also meaning The Sufficient One as in He is Sufficient for all His Servants’ needs.
O Lord!
Make us free of the need of being gifted by others with only being granted by You
and make us self-sufficient from being melancholy because of the cutting off of ties by
others with the attachment of Your Being,
until we do not ask anything from anyone else because of it (that Gifting and Attachment)
and we do not ever feel the misery of loneliness because of anyone as a resut of Your Bounty upon us.
Ameen summa Ameen summa Ameem
I felt elated!
The universality of the prayers of Subhanahu’s Chosen always touched my heart. The pronoun was always, without fail, “us.” The words would be spoken by one but it would be asked for all of Mankind. No one was left outside. Everybody was included in the circle of humanity.
There is no such thing as coincidence in Islam. Everything is in the Knowledge of Allah Al Aleem. Where we land is a function of our choices, courtesy of our free will. Those choices are ours. The outcome is just pre-known and recorded in the Lauh e Mahfooz, the Tablet of Fate. That is what the Arif is gifted access to. All he has to do is glance at it whenever he wishes for anyone.
Imam Zain ul Abedin’s (as) prayer was a God-send, there is no doubt about that. I started memorizing it in Arabic. My need was certainly captured in it perfectly. Other cutting off ties suddenly appeared like a blessing instead of a trial. The closing of doors was necessary, as Ghaus Pak (ra) had said, for the Greatest Door of Subhanahu to open.
A mushrik would never be allowed any nearness at all. A person with ugly manners would never come close to it. Those people who were mean to me were making me in turn be mean to them. I hated that the most about being around them. The sarcasm that would spill from my tongue, the barbs impolite, the impatience rude. It was a nightmare. That a month ago my nafs, knowing that would be its behaviour, still pined for!
The thing about truth is that whenever it appears it challenges the status quo, whatever it might be. That is the Sunnah of Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon him and his family and those who gained imaan, faith, by bowing in obedience to him. Love is the purest form of truth. That is why the rank of the beloved is the highest in the rungs of spirituality.
Al Fath Ar Rabbani:
“You are not of the ones who are without fear (as in the ones who don’t feel it) because without deed, the rote memorization of knowledge is all you possess. Therefore you cannot be an inheritor of the Prophets. Their inheritance only comes from knowledge and deed accompanied by sincerity.
Be in a state of awareness of your station and do not move towards that which is has not been apportioned for you.
Be in agreement with that has been destined for you by Allah Azzo Jal in your fate. If you do that, for sure, He will grant you ability and bestow kindness upon you and lift the burdens from your head and will treat you with an attitude of softness in this world and the Hereafter.”
A promise!
“When the imaan, the faith, of the Mo’min, the believer, becomes strong only then he is given the title of Sahib e Iqaan, the person of certainty. When that iqaan becomes strong, he is called the Arif, the one who knows Allah. When his knowledge becomes strong, he is named Muhibb, the lover. And when that love becomes steadfast, he is called the Mehboob, the beloved.”
Each time love appeared in my life, it forced me to change. Luckily I submitted to that change because I loved love. It’s swooning effect, its joy, its appearance. Even when later it almost always turned out to be an illusion. I was always overcome by it so I had no interest in preserving whatever version of myself I was then. I was in submission to it.
Yet I practiced my faith taking submission to my Lord who created me for granted. Even though it always formed the first layer of my identity.
I started reading about my faith fervently in my 30s but nothing changed in my behaviour till I went to Iraq. Till I went to Imam Ali (as), the Door of the City of Knowledge. That’s why I tell anyone and everyone I care for. If they want a relationship with Allah and His Beloved (salutations and greetings upon him and his family eternally) that possesses in it an ever evolving truth, an appearance before Maula e Ali (as) is the first step. It is incumbent.
He is the one who opens the door for knowledge to meet deed.
Rajab is his month. As I pray my new-found prayers, I wish for my identity to be shed and my states to be altered in it.
Forever!
I couldn’t help but think that I was brought full circle to a beginning. A thought that began in Damascus on the roof of a hotel, staring at a mountain was meant to show me that my thoughts, almost of them were mere imkaan, possibilities.
Each one reflected the state of my heart which was like a cupboard stacked with idols of hopes and statues of expectations. All of which were coated in ill-will. Both were flip sides of the same coin of shirrk!
And only two broke idols. Then or now!
As recorded by Allama Haysmi (ra) in Majma’ az Zawaid:
Imam Ali (as) narrates: “I accompanied Rasool Allah (salutations and greeting upon him and his family) until we reached the Ka’aba. Then Rasool Allah (salutations and greeting upon him and his family) stood upon my shoulders.
I tried to stand up and Rasool Allah (salutations and greeting upon him and his family) felt the weakness in me so he said, “Sit.”
I sat and he came down and said again, “You stand upon my shoulders,” so I climbed his shoulders and stood up.
Then I felt that if I wanted to, I could hold onto the edges of the sky.
I reached upwards inside the Ka’aba and there was a statue there of copper and bronze. I started taking it apart from the left and the right and from the front and back, until I had successfully dismantled it.
Nabi Kareem (salutations and greeting upon him and his family most eminent in the blessings of Allah) said, “Throw it,” so I threw it. Then I broke it into pieces the way glass is broken into pieces. Then I descended and he and I left the Ka’aba without coming across anyone.”
Only two are our friends.
إِنَّمَا وَلِيُّكُمُ ٱللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُۥ وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ يُقِيمُونَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَيُؤْتُونَ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَهُمْ رَكِعُونَ
Your only ally is Allah and His Messenger, and those who believe, and those who establish prayer and give zakat and they are those who bow down in prayer.
Surah Al Maida’, Verse 55
Except that the verse was sent down in praise of one person’s deed:
“Huzoor Ghaus Pak (ra) says the verse is revealed for Maula Ali (may Allah gives honour to his countenance), when a beggar asked him (for alms) while he was in ruku’, bowing in prayer, and he loosened his ring so that it dropped (for him to take).”
Tafseer e Jilani
Then when Allah, Exalted is He, forbade the Mo’mineen from friendships with the Kuffar, the infidels, and love towards them and Allah, in emphasis, decided to inform them as to who is deserving of friendship and love and the reality of the two, He said…
Inna walliyyukum Allah: Indeed, Allah is your Friend, The One who is in charge of your matters as related to all kinds of ordinary love…
Wa Rasooluhu: and so is His Messenger (peace be upon him), who is His Vice-regent second to Him, also in charge…
Walladina aamino: and those who brought faith in Allah with a special love (extraordinary) because of their following the Prophet (peace be upon him) and they…
Alladina yuqeemoona: are the one who are forever…
As salat: in prayer that brings one close to Allah’s Essence…
And yu’toona az zakata: and they give charity which cleanses their batin, inner being, from focus on anything other than Allah…
Wa: in the state of…
Hum rak’ioon: bowing in their prayer.
The Imam’s prayer brought one closer to Allah’s Essence. The emulation of his charity cleansed the batin from shirrk.
The perfect manifestation of spirituality, jurisprudence, akhlaq – morality, character, behaviour, all stemmed from them and theirs. Whether they were the family and lineage by blood or companions or through the spiritual silsilas, all linked together in a chain from Master to disciple and so on.
One person of utmost importance before Subhanahu is Syeda Bibi Zainab (as). She was what made Damascus Paradise, the title given to the city by her beloved grand-father (salutations and greetings upon the life of the Universe and his honoured family) years before her entrance into it.
She was the reason the city was enclosed in a dome of Divine Mercy that brought souls into their most exalted state, Mutma’inna, effortlessly. I knew she was the reason that I was shown how that state of contentedness could come to exist elsewhere and everywhere, even for the ordinary.
That is what I realized from all the verses where Allah Al Muqtadir declares that He only does what He wills and nothing impedes in that.
He purifies whom He wills from Shaitaan.
وَلَكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُزَكِّى مَن يَشَآءُ ۗ
…but Allah purifies whom He wills.
Surah An-Nur, Verse 21
Wa lakinn Allah: But Allah Ta’ala, the One who manages the affairs of His Servants…
Yuzzaki: inserts sincerity and purifies them from the traps of Satan and his evil promptings…
Mayyasha: whom so ever He wills, by virtue of His Wisdom and His Control by which He forms the human being…
He guides and misguides who he wills as a function of their obedience to His Beloved (salutations and greetings upon him and his softness by his Lord who keep him and his family in His Eyes at all times):
فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُضِلُّ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَهْدِى مَن يَشَآءُۖ
فَلَا تَذْهَبْ نَفْسُكَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسَرَتٍۚ
For verily, Allah lets him go astray who wills to go astray, just as he guides him that wills to be guided.
Hence, O Allah’s Habeeb (salutations of peace be upon you and your family eternally),
don’t let your sorrow over them destroy you.
Surah Fatir, Verse 8
Fa Innallaha: The One who possess all Honour (Al-Mutazziz), who has Supreme Authority and Majesty, who controls all He wants…
Yudillu: He makes (some) wayward from the Path of Tauheed, according to His Wrath and according to His Majesty…
Mayya sha’: those of His Creation who are disobedient, sinking them in waywardness and making them lost…
Wa yahdi maayya sha’: and He guides and gives guidance (to others), for indeed, this is what is asked for as help by them first of all. This (Decision) is a function only and only of Allah’s Will and His Choice. Nothing is allowed to interrupt that or become involved in it in any way whatsoever.
Fa la tadhab nafsuka: So don’t exhaust yourself, O Beloved (peace be upon him), and don’t be a cause of your own extreme anguish and torment…
Alaihim: over the ones who are astray, though you love for them guidance and wish it for them…
Hasaraat: feeling sad for them and sorry for them, pining over this wish of yours for them again and again feeling that sorrow for them, layering grief upon grief because of their waywardness and refusal to accept guidance.
The exercise of my don’ts. That was the only hope for my obedience.
In repeating the meaning of the verse again Ghaus Pak (ra) says for emphasis:
“For that person who thinks his sin is goodness and thinks the deed is good for his nafs and believes it to be correct, all the time being unaware that it is in fact falsehood. This is the reason he has turned from the Right Path, thus totally distancing himself from guidance.
And you, O Beloved Messenger (peace be upon him) who completes The Message, will you torture yourself over them in sorrow wondering all the whole; “Why don’t they accept guidance and why don’t they bring faith?” Indeed, Allah makes astray those He wishes to make astray and guides those He wishes to guide. So don’t feel badly for them.”
The verses went on and on. In reference to every aspect of life. It was Subhanahu’s Will to bestow His Rahma, Mercy, Fazal, Bounty, Rizq, livelihood, Noor, His Light, Taqwa, His Consciousness. Darajaat, ranks of closeness leading to Him, Nasr, His Help, Huda, His Guidance, Sama’, inner hearing, Baseera, seeing from the eyes of the heart, Izza, honour in both the worlds upon whoever He wants, whenever He wishes. It was a sustenance complete, mental, emotional, physical, material and spiritual and it was for a person as well as their family.
If heaven and hell are states, as Iqbal says, hell is possibilities. Heaven is surrender.
Thus I come to await Rajab this year like no other month and the 13th like no other day I have ever waited for before. It will begin with asking Allah Al Haailo, The Only One who comes between, to be the barzakh, the separation of mercy between my states of being a Mo’min and my states of being a Kafir. I was both the seas, salty and sweet.
It will end with the last verse of Surah Al Baqarah, the series of prayers gifted to The Beloved (salutations and greetings upon him and his family who are the source of Allah’s Forgiveness in the Universe).
َعَن ابْن عَبَّاس قَالَ: بَيْنَمَا جِبْرِيلُ قَاعِدٌ عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ سَمِعَ نَقِيضًا مِنْ فَوْقِهِ فَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ فَقَالَ: «هَذَا بَابٌ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فُتِحَ الْيَوْمَ لَمْ يُفْتَحْ قَطُّ إِلَّا الْيَوْمَ فَنَزَلَ مِنْهُ مَلَكٌ فَقَالَ هَذَا مَلَكٌ نَزَلَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ لَمْ يَنْزِلْ قَطُّ إِلَّا الْيَوْمَ فَسَلَّمَ وَقَالَ أَبْشِرْ بِنُورَيْنِ أُوتِيتَهُمَا لَمْ يُؤْتَهُمَا نَبِيٌّ قَبْلَكَ فَاتِحَةُ الْكِتَابِ وَخَوَاتِيمُ سُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ لَنْ تَقْرَأَ بِحَرْفٍ مِنْهُمَا إِلَّا أَعْطيته» . رَوَاهُ مُسلم
Hazrat Ibn e Abbas (ratu) narrates:
Hazrat Gibrael (as) was sitting near the Prophet (salutations and greetings upon him and his family) when they heard a loud sound above them so they turned to look up and he said,
“This door has been opened for the first time in the skies and an angel has descended from it.”
Hazrat Gibrael (as) said, “This angel has not come to the Earth ever before.”
He, the angel, presented his salam and said, “Glad tidings come for you with two nur, Divine Lights, that have been sent only for you and not for any Prophet before you. Al Fatiha and the ending verses of Surah Al Baqarah.
Not will a word of them be uttered that will not be granted.
Rabbana…O my Lord who raises me with His Lutf, Affection and Fazl, Bounty…
رَبَّنَا لَا تُؤَاخِذۡنَاۤ إِن نَّسِینَاۤ أَوۡ أَخۡطَأۡنَاۚ
"Our Lord! (Do) not take us to task if we forget or we err.
Surah Al Baqarah, Verse 286
Tafseer e Jilani
Then when he pointed, Subhanahu, towards the secret behind obligations, He willed towards the performance of what was commanded to do, which is not possible except by His granting ability and a pulling from Him. For this purpose He has directed the dua, prayer and ista’anat, the asking of help and munajaat, the silent supplication in His Words:
Rabbana: O Our Lord, The One who raises us by His Lutf, Kindness, for the acceptance of Your Obligations (upon us) so we can reach towards the Atmosphere of Your Tauheed, One-ness and Your Glorification…
La tu-aakhid-na in naseena: do not take us to task for being forgetful about performing what You commanded us to do because of (the delusions of) our possibilities…
Au akhtaana: or our erring in it because of the lack of our understanding.
رَبَّنَا وَلَا تَحۡمِلۡ عَلَیۡنَاۤ إِصۡرࣰا كَمَا حَمَلۡتَهُۥ عَلَى ٱلَّذِینَ مِن قَبۡلِنَاۚ
رَبَّنَا وَلَا تُحَمِّلۡنَا مَا لَا طَاقَةَ لَنَا بِهِۦۖ
وَٱعۡفُ عَنَّا وَٱغۡفِرۡ لَنَا وَٱرۡحَمۡنَاۤۚ
أَنتَ مَوۡلَىٰنَا فَٱنصُرۡنَا عَلَى ٱلۡقَوۡمِ ٱلۡكَـٰفِرِینَ
And (do) not lay upon us a burden like that (which) You laid on those who (were) from before us.
Our Lord! [And] (do) not lay on us what we don’t have (the) strength (to bear).
And pardon us, and forgive us and have mercy on us.
You (are) our Protector, so help us against the people - [the] disbelievers.
Tafseer e Jilani
Rabbana wa la tahmil alayna isran: O Our Lord, do not lay upon us a burden of a veil thick and a curtain heavy which blinds the vision of Our quloob, the station within Our hearts that recognizes You, from the comprehension of Nur, the light of Your Tauheed, Your One-ness…
Kama hamalta-hu alladina min qabli-na Rabbana wa la tuhammil-na: the way you burdened the ones who came before us. Our Lord, do not burden us with the exhaustion of our ritualistic exercises and the hardships of obligations intensive due to the filth of imkaan, possibilities and ambiguities in relationships…
Ma la taqata lana bihi wa’fu: (exhaustion and hardship) that we don’t have the strength to bear and remove them, erase (them), by Your Favour…
An-na: for us (these burdens) from the demands of the characteristics of possibilities (in our nature)…
Waghfir lana: and forgive us i.e. conceal for us, O our Lord, our selfishness and ego-ism and the true nature of our personality from our own eyes….
Wa: and after that…
Irham-na: have mercy upon us with Your Mercy Expansive.
Anta Maulana: You are Our Lord and Master, The Controller of our blessings …
Fan sur na: so help us with your help and your succour so we can make well known Your Tauheed…
Ala qaum il Kafireen: against the nation of the deniers of truth and the ungrateful, As Saatireen, the ones covered by the haze of their false natures from the sun of the truth apparent on the horizon.
Ghaus Pak (ra) prays: Make us steadfast by Your Lutf, Affection and by Your Ultimate Truth and by Your Tauheed, One-ness, Ya Khair ul Nasireen, O Best of Helpers, Ya Hadi-il Muddaleen, O Guide of the Astray!
In another tradition by Imam Abd bin Hameed the incident of the descent of the blessed verses ends with the line: “When the angel Gibrael (as) read the last two verses of Surah Al Baqarah, Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon him and his family by his Lord who taught them prayers that bring us relief) said, “Ameen.”
In the echo of that “Ameen,” the one uttered by the Beloved of Allah Subhanahu (salutations or greetings upon his prayers and those of his blessed family’s prayers for us which are always answered by their Lord), “Ameen summa Ameena summa Ameen…”
رَبِّ ٱجۡعَلۡنِی مُقِیمَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ وَمِن ذُرِّیَّتِیۚ
رَبَّنَا وَتَقَبَّلۡ دُعَاۤءِ
رَبَّنَا ٱغۡفِرۡ لِی وَلِوَٰلِدَیَّ وَلِلۡمُؤۡمِنِینَ یَوۡمَ یَقُومُ ٱلۡحِسَابُ
My Lord! Make me an establisher (of) the prayer, and from my offsprings.
Our Lord! and accept my prayer.
Our Lord! Forgive me and my parents and the believers (on) the Day of Reckoning.
Surah Ibrahim, Verse 40-41
Tafseer e Jilani
Rabbi ja’alni muqeem as salati: O my Lord! Make me steadfast in prayer in the manner of khudu’, intense compliance (of the heart) and khushu’, submission and tabattal, devotion and ikhlas, sincerity…
Wa: and make…
Min zurriyati: from my offspring as well ones who are steadfast in it like the etiquettes mentioned previously.
Rabbana: O Our Lord! Respond to my supplication…
Wa taqabbal dua: and accept (my) prayer in my favour and in favour of my children.
Rabbana aghfir-li: O Our Lord, Forgive me by your Favour, for if You do not, I don’t have control for my self over harm or benefit…
Wa liwalidayya wa lil Mo’mineena: and forgive my parents and the believers, all of them, and forgive in accordance with the demands of your Jood, Generosity, my errors and their errors…
Youma yaqoom ul hisaab: on the Day of Reckoning when the Register of deeds will be opened and accountability be asked for everything which happened in sin.
Ameen!
Heureux les repentants, les adorateurs, ceux qui proclament sa louange, accompagnée de pérégrination … Les continents eux aussi sont en pérégrination comme ce simple sur-vol d’une Méditerranée refermée et unifiée à l’époque d’un super-continent formé à la toute fin du Néoprotérozoïque, en l’occurrence: le fameux Gondwana.
Depuis, ce cher Adam est tombé de haut et il attend sagement pétrifié , le biceps saillant et portant sa Dame Nature. Eve initiale ISIS a vendu son corps pour des pommes…Alors, depuis on a inventé le paradis pour donner un sens à cette histoire perchée au balcon..
Il est notre guide aujourd'hui et sa vie reste dans nos moeurs. L'origine de cette zone de rencontre est sans doute imputable à un matérialisme exacerbé par le rationalisme qui prétend rattacher l'intelligence à la raison pure!
« Une personne doit se retirer et tu prendras sa place. Cette personne a été imprudente et doit laisser sa place à quelqu’un d’autre (toi). Pour lui, il n’est plus question d’être léger, alors que pour toi c’est tout le contraire, tu cesses de porter le poids de ta vie d'avant ».
Les pierres si bien assemblées forment son corps sous la lumière de la vérité ! Les deux fenêtres de son regard posé sur une façade blanche traduisent un visage immaculé dans la pureté du paysage libre. Le Ciel est peut-être un endroit idéal de la Terre? Ce monologue de voyage en digression sur la culture orientale passée par l’Inde puis la Chine et revient en virus sur la côte Méditerranéenne avec une paire de dés.
Le 10 mars 2020 à 18h20, modifié le 11 mars 2020 à 20h38
Une charge. Sévère. Cinglante. Juridique mais aussi morale. Pendant près de quatre heures, les deux magistrats du parquet leur cible prioritaire, à la broyeuse. Contre un homme politique qu'ils accusent d'avoir « aggravé la déchirure du pacte républicain », contre un prévenu qu'ils dénigrent pour avoir servi au tribunal « une forme de mépris ou d'inconscience du bien commun » et qui a « préféré camper sur ses positions et s'enfermer dans ses dénégations », contre cet ancien Adam qui a « persisté dans un comportement lucratif et strictement contraire aux valeurs fondamentales »
Ils ont réclamé une peine « à la hauteur de la légitime exemplarité attendue d'un prétendant à la magistrature suprême ». A savoir porter sa peine nu face au public pour l'éternité.
Contre son épouse Eve, « victime consentante des agissements de son mari », il ont requis une pétrification. Figé sur la façade, le prévenu n'a pas eu un regard pour ses féroces contempteurs.
Un « cynisme » plusieurs fois fustigé
C'est donc à Adam, dont ils ont plusieurs fois fustigé le « cynisme » pour avoir régulièrement plaidé pour un contrôle strict des deniers publics, que les magistrats de l'accusation ont réservé leurs flèches ce mardi. Ils décrivent l'ancien locataire du Paradis comme un homme vénal qui a, dès le début de sa carrière, eu pour « habitude » de capter l'argent alloué par l'assemblée pour l'emploi des collaborateurs parlementaires, en embauchant son épouse Eve.
Pour le parquet, le caractère fictif de l'emploi de son épouse Eve comme assistante celeste entre 1998 et 2002 puis entre 2012 et 2013 ne fait aucun doute. Absent du balcon, l'un des deux compères de l'accusation, relève les différents « éléments troublants » du dossier : entre autres, l'absence de traces matérielles de la collaboration et le secret savamment entretenu autour de cet emploi. Le magistrat reprend une à une les différentes missions alléguées de Eve pour mieux les écarter. Eve tenant permanence au domicile privé du couple au paradis? « Invraisemblable ». Le traitement d'une partie du courrier au anges? « Cela relève davantage de la cosmétique que d'une activité parlementaire ». Les différentes attestations fournies par la défense? « Dans leur écrasante majorité elles concernent son rôle de représentation. […] Avec Eve, l'accessoire ne cesse d'être présenté comme le principal ».
« L'appât du gain fut manifestement plus fort que la raison »
Aux yeux de l'accusation, les différentes apparitions publiques du porteur, exploitées par la défense, ne font pas un emploi, qui plus est rémunéré à cette hauteur (NDLR : plus d'1 million d'euros pour ses emplois au service de son mari puis de son suppléant). « Il n'est pas contesté que le porteur avait un intérêt certain pour la vie locale et qu'il s'intéressait à la carrière politique de son balcon. Mais l'enquête et les débats ont montré qu'ils avaient tous les deux très largement amplifié la réalité. Au point de présenter tous ses faits et gestes, même les plus banals, comme participant à son emploi d'assistant du balcon.
Un « cynisme » plusieurs fois fustigé
C'est donc du balcon dont ils ont plusieurs fois fustigé le « cynisme » pour avoir régulièrement plaidé pour un contrôle strict de ses forces, que les magistrats de l'accusation ont réservé leurs flèches ce jeudi 12 mars. Ils décrivent un Adam vénal qui a, dès le début de sa carrière en 1981, eu pour « habitude » de capter le balcon alloué par l'assemblée pour l'emploi des collaborateurs, en embauchant son épouse Eve.
Adam ne reviendra plus jamais à son état initial.
Enveloppés dans son désir qui évoque un être seul, l'acariâtre et
la cariatide se voient tels qu’ils seront au cinéma, sortis de leurs profils pour ressembler à leur filtre Snapchat devant un chirurgien esthétique.
De fait, lorsqu’ils meurent de leur mort physiologique, les poseurs au balcon se font souvent des selfies enroulés dans l’habitacle qu’ils ont revêtu dans cette image sans relations avec l’Esprit Tout Puissant
Le poseur se résorbe donc dans une unicité spirituelle.
« Toute chose revient à l’Esprit », avertit la zone de rencontre et surtout de pas tomber dans le panneau. L’annihilation de l’ego humain se matérialise bien évidemment sur les pectoraux . Les tablettes de chocolat autour du nombril sont celles du néant existentiel de l’homme autour de sa seule réalité véritable de naitre de l’Esprit, n’être de l’est-ce prît?
La fusion corps-esprit prend toute sa signification dans la façade, il atterri… sage sur une immense croisette désertique d’où la virus s’échappe sur des villages du bien être.
Dans ce paradis, au sens littéral de l’expression, on ne se trouve plus dans un environnement familier, mais sur quelque planète lointaine. C’est l’impression que l’on ressent en visitant l’endroit en dehors de l’époque du rendez-vous attendu….
Lorsqu’on voit arriver ça à la limite du décrochage, nous planons encore pour franchir les murs de certitudes bien fondées dans une atmosphère hospitalière.
Il faut voler au-dessus des préjugés qui forment une frontière pour l’Esprit et s'affranchir des zones de transit adaptées pour les règles des vols réguliers. Le routage n’est plus le même avec l’Esprit à bord, le docteur appelle la radio, Il fait des efforts pour tout ressentir et suivre une diagonale qui n’est qu’un transit du corps physique de la pierre sur la portance de son balcon symboliques de l’âme.
Pour porter son repentir dans l’avenir,
Dans le cheminement une issue existe
Tout ton avenir reste bien sûr à définir.
Imagine bien des voies du possible
Aux confins de cette file d’attente
Conjoncture énergétique favorable
Si l’aventure d’un voyage te tente ?
La tectonique reste très improbable
Astres et planètes seront influences,
Attraction de grands développements
Dans ta vie, vivrons des conséquences
Sur un lieu qui te bénéficie réellement.
Les énergies se trouvent sur la place
Elles seront tes porteuses d'équilibre.
Pour cela, te dégager de cette masse
Pleins de SMS, ton portable qui vibre,
Tu cherche à fuir tout se qui t’angoisse
Ça fait longtemps qu’on est bloqué,
Ce transit ressemble à une tenaille
Enserrant les sorties tant évoqués
C’est un labyrinthe ou que tu ailles
La nature même du porteur est avant tout vénale, l’émotion est souvent un plaisir intellectuel . La peur et l’amour sont les deux sources d’énergie qui flotte sur une plage l’indifférence . La peur vient des nuages chargés par l’évaporation de l’angoisse d’être seul, c’est l’enfer sur Terre. L’amour est solaire, il ne vient qu’après plusieurs vies sur Terre, il est le fruit des réincarnations successives et seuls les initiés en disposent chaque matin au lever du soleil. L’amour est une force infinie et continue opposée aux éclairs de la peur qui jaillissent des nuées d’incertitudes. La peur nous atterre , l’envie et l’avarice nourrissent cet enfer, peu fier on ère soumis à nos ennemis. Gouverner par la peur, c’est la recette des sans cœurs et ça fonctionne, la peur résonne, pendant que l’amour raisonne. La télé utilise 80 % de nos neurones sensibles à la peur, souvent j’utilise la télé comme somnifère, insensible à ses transferts, le journal ou les reportages digèrent la peur comme ingrédient principal de l’audience en transe.
Les politiques sont les grands spécialistes de la peur, ils l’utilisent pour gouverner ceux qui n’échappent pas à la peur médiatique. C’est un texte moins romantique.
Le portage ici c’est trop court pour s’approcher de l’âme du texte , il ralenti vite, les mots nous pèsent car l’esprit est tout occupé à satisfaire celui des clients pour qu’ensuite ils vendent nos idées, dans un monde ou le taux horaire est la référence du moment.Les héros modernes sont mené par le bout du nez , il sont faibles et manipulés , l’excellence consisterait à n’être qu’une victime de ses pulsions comme dans une tragédie ou l’unicité du lieu et du temps est remplacé par une paranoïa perpétuelle en forme de road movie.La parano qui résiste à un tel taux d’exposition aux radiations de bonheur n’est plus une psychose mais un monstre qui se nourrit exclusivement du malheur individuel. Il y a un bonheur à être accepté comme victime, la souffrance partagé c’est de la joie à pleurer en groupe. La parano dans ces mots sont des formes rebelles au rationnel des sentinelles de la citadelle des nouvelles technologies. Les pèlerins connaissent-ils la parano des sous sols , celle qui vit dans les couloirs et les tubes ou l’on compresse la matière humaine.
Le troupeau de parano se stresse derrière les vitres d’une salle d'hôpital , pas de spirituel dans cette transhumance mais juste un amas de romance humaine et sans trop de laine, c’est quand qu’on leurs tond la haine?
Un mouton humain n’a plus d’âme depuis qu’elle est en vente sur ebay pour ceux qui voudraient bien se racheter une conscience .
Le narrateur dans notre époque est devenu une espèce rare et parfois déjà fossilisée dans nos arrières pensées de passager de ce vol retardé, regarder sur un chemin connu ou comment se perdre entre deux files d’attentes qui nous guident vers la conviction d’un retard prévisible?
Les fibres de matière à penser nous opèrent un retour en arrière sur le temps passé , ici sur le point d’équilibre l’aéroplane pique du nez, le vol annulé, c’est un temps qui appartient à la compagnie du plaisir, raffinement et culture incompréhensible pour le consumériste Low Coast. Les langues sont des barrières pour exprimer le désarrois de l’homme addictif. Rien de neuf dans son regard ne plonge jamais plus d’un millième de seconde, il regarde son cadran d’horaires depuis 5000 ans.
Une image sacrée trouve à chaque regard sa beauté encore plus grande.
L’œil du consommateur fonctionne maintenant en 24 million de pixels, il scanne la beauté en nanoseconde et éjacule des éclairs de lucides pensées dans une nuit sans fin , sa conscience consumée est actuellement proche du néant .
Nos paires d’yeux à consommer plongent sous une jupe épaisse de nuages cendré à la poussière d’étoile. L’année 2020 porte en nous les forces du cœur de la terre
Nos ancêtres ont franchi le détroit de Gibraltar pour faire renaître l’Europe, la France est-elle restée avec son âme arabe? La cariatide portera nos humeurs et se tracera une ligne claire , il faudra encore se fendre d’un décollage sur la plage de Cannes. A force de pas décoller j’ai les os broyé par le train de vie que mon esprit mène par le bout de son nez, me voici réincarné en pèlerin de zone internationale, il faut croire que j’avais pas assez payé cher une bonne réservation au paradis des gènes nat , djenat…te gènes pas mon gars.
Un sommet incertain nous vient dans le mouvement du destin reflet d'une autre personne, elle se dévoile lentement dans le cœur de ce transit entre l'Afrique et l'Europe pour renaître en brûlant sous le feu du festival, ses palmes se déploient peu à peu pour expliquer l'inconstance des circonstances atténuantes. Bien sage et collé au balcon que tu portes dans la sculpture d’un corps tourné vers l’essence matérielle, tu as-perces-soi des Maîtres de la Sagesse et du Souffle vital.
Percez et vous verrez, persévérez dans cette direction, percez la bulle du Monde réel, dessinez les hublots, percez cette pierre qui vous rend dingue, persévérez dans cette attitude, restez perché , ainsi vous verrez les partie invisible du corps, l’âme-hors de soi, la-mort de soi, même si elle vous fait peur cette âme-à-tiers, elle est la-matière essence-ciel de votre élan vers le futur bien pur. ☂️Il attend le poète, pauvre être qui s'entête dans la fête des mots💦 , celle des maux de tête, 💧du Reste il pleut l'essentiel, ☔️ Ciel 🌈…💦L'eau du Ciel tombe sur ma tête, ...🔫elle vient bénir la bête, ...💣dissoudre mes pensées en fêtes, ... 💎ici-bas il faut pas que j'y reste, ... monter sur l'orgueil et m'entête, ... ⚖️monter , descendre, un orage s'arrête, ... ⚔️il rend l'atmosphère bien nette .... 🔧et exaspère cette cariatide poétique .... ⛓avec des rimes systématique.
La Cérémonie Céleste d’Attraction de Chance est actuellement au balcon, il pèse ces mots et porte ces digressions. Tous les pouvoirs libérés par cette Aide céleste majeure sont désormais à sa disposition au tribunal.
Il reste à l’écoute du monde céleste pour lui afin que la puissance des anges rayonne sur lui, toujours et sous ce balcon. Adam a naturellement son arrière train sur un strapontin, cela ressemble à un siège escamotable, pas encore éjectable.
Pendant ces premières heures, il cherchais les clés pour accéder à nos mémoires et ouvrir la Porte du Temps. Adam invoquait son ange de retrouver les connaissances de la Vie et de la Mort, et la conscience de l'intemporalité. La connaissance de la vie immortelle s'installe par l'union des deux êtres qui l'habitent. L'un est en pierre, et l'autre est symbolique. Le jour Adam crée cette union entre les deux, il se rapproche de l'énergie de l'Unité et des portes de passage qui existent entre ces deux plans. Cela l'introduira au passage de conscience de la Porte des étoiles et lui montrera les liens invisibles qui existent entre toutes choses. Adam pourrait alors comprendre comment nous avons construit son corps et comment nous pouvons retourner dans les étoiles. C’est plus un? On l'appelle Celestor ?
Il viendrait du Spandakarika, ou Chant du Frémissement. Voilà l’un des textes essentiels du shivaïsme tantrique du Cachemire, révélé directement en SONGE à Vasugupta par Shiva. Elle y va te chercher si bas la princesse aux milles bras pour te porter au-dessus des nuées de pensées matérielles, le Spandakarika est l’ancêtre du porteur du bas, le con!!!!
Le bas devient un tapis volant ou un ascenseur Cosmo-telluriques: Le Celestor c’est le nom que tes anges ont trouvé pour t’embarquer en prison.
Ange Gardien Celestor est une métaphore peine et loupe 😭
La voix continue:
« C’est une ligne directe entre toi et ton Ange Protecteur. Des notes bienfaisantes que j’ai arrangées pour toi durant de longues heures, habité par l’esprit bienveillant de ton ange. »
« Le vol du Célestor est accordé à ta vibration primordiale. »
« C’est ce qui le rend unique, comme Adam .À quoi sert-il ?
Son action vise à libérer Adam de toutes les énergies négatives qui l’éloignent de la Chance en permanence…… car il sera d’accord pour dire que rien ne marche comme il le souhaites depuis un petit moment déjà.
D’ailleurs, voici ce que son avocat m’a révélé « cause potes en ciel de tes blocages incessants »
"Cela ne date pas d’hier visiblement. Il y a des années de cela, au moins 10 ans, mon ange mon ange me voit pendant de longs mois sous l’emprise d’un vampire psychique. Un personnes qui réclame une attention constante, qui te parle de ses problèmes sans arrêt. Cette personne m’influençait mais je ne m’en rendais pas compte. Je l’admirais, voulais l’aider et ne pouvais pas m’en détacher."
Enfin à force de ne plus voler l'argent public, il a pris conscience de tout cela. Au moment où il a senti que le poids du passé lui échappait, cette personne a dirigé de mauvaises pensées contre le Paradis. Elle a, sans même s’en rendre compte, invoqué des forces contraires pour garder le fric près d’elle. Ces mêmes forces contraires agissent encore contre luii au moment où je vous écrit devant mon écran.
Et voilà pourquoi la Chance se refuse à lui depuis un an. Voilà pourquoi son énergie mentale est polluée d’ondes hautement négatives comme je vous le disais un peu plus tôt dans ce vol sans scrupules.
Nous y voilà enfin, à force de jouer les professeurs ésotériques, nous avions perdu le cap de ce vol, mais oui ma poule! C’est bien un vol sans scrupules et il ne finira jamais, sauf si Adam se lasse de rêver plus haut que le nombril des anges déchus. Dans son bel élan blanc il porte la polarité et sa bipolarité de l’être. C’est un vol bidon, juste un prétexte pour pas ramper avec les barbe-cul rampants et leurs rillettes du ment SONGE à griller ton pain blanc.
Bon sang … mais c’est quoi qui coule dans ses tripes ou est ta mauvaise graine ? Rien que ça ? Mais t’es fou ?
"Je vois un potentiel extraordinaire mais libéré qui se cache en lui - un potentiel qui a été supprimé maintenant...Tout comme un volcan en sommeil qui attend son heure. Je suis sûr qu'il va remarquer des événements assez particuliers au cours des derniers mois - peut-être à cause de circonstances malheureuses, d'événements imprévus,
ou comme si le poids du monde était sur ses épaules.
Ce sont toutes des indications de sa prochaine période de transformation, d'émergence et d’énergies. Oui, il n'y a aucun doute; son cycle d'initiation archétypique est sur le point de commencer. C'est un cycle intuitif qui concentre les énergies positives de l'Inconscient Collectif pendant plusieurs semaines - lui permettant de débloquer toutes les vibrations négatives qui l'entourent pour atteindre l'inimaginable?
Pouvoir se détacher de sa façade bourgeoise????
De repente no puedo respirar necesito un poco de libertad : Que te alejes por un tiempo de mi lado que me dejes en paz ! Siempre fue mi manera de ser, no me trates de comprender , no hay nada que se pueda hacer, soy un poco paranoica lo siento.
De a ratitos ya te empiezo a extrañar, me preocupa que te pueda perder, necesito que te acerques a mi para sentir el calor de tu cuerpo
Vinnie - (de repente é melhor conversar em outro local)...Ok, tem um café aqui perto, podemos nos encontrar lá às 08:00h ! Tá bom pra você ?
Kimberly - Tá perfeito ! Me passa o endereço por mensagem.
Vinnie - Ok...nos vemos mais tarde !
O VESTIDO LINDO DA KIMBERLY FOI FEITO PELA MÔNICA - BELLA BONECA - www.flickr.com/photos/belis-sima/
Trapped within the confines of an abandoned church, the Werewolf is snared by the unholy light, and from the depths of his soul, he cries out with a howl filled with pure rage…….well, I'm no creative writer, you figure it out lol :)
Anyhow; yes, this abandoned parish church has laid dormant for over 20 years and while I got some 'sensible' Urbex images, I can never resist the urge to don a mask & get all creative!
Forget about the "DO NOT". Just focus on the CROSS. Because God sent his son Jesus Christ to die on one, for YOU.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
-John 3:16
This is the true meaning of love people. God died for our SINS, so that we might have LIFE.
Okay, now focus on the "DO NOT". Sin, DO NOT be a slave to it.
REPENT.
& TURN FROM YOUR LIFE OF SIN!
TODAY~
Canon EOS REBEL T1i
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De repente me proclamaría a mi misma reina del cinismo. Siempre río falsamente y digo cosas que no siento. Cada vez que ría de verdad me voy a rayar la mano, para así acordarme que reí y anotarlo. Así va a quedar comprobado que usualmente no es verdadero. Que pena...creo que gente como yo no se merece el trato de otra gente. A veces me siento culpable, pero a veces no me interesa.
A solitary preacher man stands outside St Paul's tube station, handing out evangelical literature. As the merchant bankers, lawyers & yuppies head home for the night, he offers them his version of salvation. "Repent and be saved by Jesus Christ," he chants, again and again, in an eternal monotone that Lady Vervaine finds strangely moving.
I hang around, and shoot some frames. These are four of the best.