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The world is like an impermanent resting place
Where all things just simply come and go
He who sees something come and never go
has seen old age,
and he who sees something go and never come
has seen youth.
In everything, I see the face of my beloved.
In everything, I see the glory of my God.
He who sees the creator in all created things,
he is one who has truly seen God.
An Urdu poem, put to music by the group
Niyaz in their song “Dilruba.”
BTW, when you see the word “beloved” spoken of metaphorically (or even literally) in a romantic way, they are speaking of God. It is a notion of being in love with God, like a lover, not sexually, but with passion like that. It’s a real edgy side to Sufism I find provocative.
Sufis make my head spin (and every other part of my body) 😆 Quote:For no man has seen God at any time in the flesh, except quickened by the Spirit of God.
I think we see God’s glory, we see evidences of God, we see examples of God’s work…but not actually see God.
Heber13 wrote:I think we see God’s glory, we see evidences of God, we see examples of God’s work…but not actually see God.
Do you mean in general, as in all of us, always, as a rule? It seems to me the scriptures, especially the LDS canon, are full of invitations to see God’s face.
SamBee wrote:Sufis make my head spin (and every other part of my body)
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I actually carried on a conversation with a practicing Whirling Dervish a few years ago on a mystic group web site. Fun.HiJolly
If we nominated comments from this site for a Niblet, I would nominate HiJolly’s comment. Cracked. Me. Up.Sometimes, truth really is stranger than fiction.
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