Breeze of Magic | Episode (26) | Journey of longing

0:02 The breeze of the dawn.

0:08 A journey of longing.

0:10 When you are consumed by the anxieties of this world,

0:17 And left distressed by its sorrows,

0:21 And grief has piled up upon your heart,

0:24 Until you find yourself suffering from the memory of past pains,

0:29 Or yearning for a present filled with its hardships,

0:34 Or burning with fear of a future that your mind has crowded with terrors,

0:40 Then let your longing take flight from this earth, heavy with wounds,

0:46 Toward the land of dreams, overflowing with joy.

0:50 Mount the steed of longing toward a land that holds nothing but perfect bliss,

0:56 Where everything smiles upon you from every side,

0:59 And rejoices in your presence forevermore.

1:02 Its beautiful breeze blows upon you with everything you love,

1:07 For whoever enters it shall live in bliss and never despair,

1:12 Shall abide eternally and never die,

1:15 Its garments shall never wear out,

1:17 And its youth shall never fade.

1:19 In it is what no eye has seen,

1:22 Nor ear has heard,

1:24 Nor has it ever crossed the heart of any human.

1:27 A land where there is no place for worries or grief,

1:32 Nor for sorrows, illnesses, or pains,

1:35 Nor for any source of distress.

1:38 Rather, one sheds the previous pains of the earth upon entering it,

1:42 Before stepping inside,

1:44 Just as one who wears sandals removes them before entering a clean place.

1:50 And they shall say, "Praise be to Allah, who has removed all sorrow from us."

1:57 “And they say: Praise be to Allah Who hath put grief away from us. Lo! Our Lord is Forgiving, Bountiful,” (35:34)

2:03 So, if the pain of this world afflicts you, O believer,

2:09 Then travel with your longing to Paradise,

2:12 And reflect upon what Allah has prepared for its people therein.

2:16 Contemplate, if you were there,

2:19 How you would delight and enjoy, and your soul would be free of every impurity,

2:25 And you would meet your believing loved ones whom death had reached before you,

2:32 While you are in longing to meet them,

2:35 And exchange the hadith of longing between you and them.

2:39 Perhaps Paradise says to you, while you are in the midst of the worldly struggle:

2:45 "Travel with your longing, for the paths are clear,

2:50 And fly with your love toward me, O you who complain.

2:54 If the tears of your eyes flow from pain,

2:58 You shall become happy with me, O you who weep."

3:03 This journey of longing

3:07 Will lighten some of your hardship,

3:10 And make the weight of your trials easier to bear.

3:13 It will whisper into the ear of your faith

3:16 That every affliction on the path to Paradise is trivial,

3:21 And that every patience in the face of those adversities has Paradise as its price,

3:26 Making it an easy task.

3:30 Just as that noble longing which has drawn near to you

3:34 Will benefit you in another way:

3:37 It will urge you toward righteous deeds and the abandonment of evil.

3:42 Ibrahim al-Taymi said:

3:45 "I imagined myself in Paradise,

3:47 Eating of its fruits,

3:50 And drinking of its rivers.

3:52 Then I imagined myself in the Fire,

3:55 Eating of its Zaqqum,

3:57 And drinking of its pus,

3:59 And struggling with its chains and shackles.

4:03 So I said to my soul:

4:05 'O soul, what do you desire?'

4:09 It replied:

4:11 'I wish to be returned to the world so that I may do righteous deeds.'

4:15 I said:

4:18 'You are in the midst of that wish, so act!'"

4:21 Therefore, let Paradise and the longing for it be your mental occupation,

4:26 Which you hold fast to amidst the waves of your pain,

4:30 To protect you from drowning in the depths of despair and the torment of the soul.

4:36 And say today:

4:39 "Toward the qibla of longing, I drive my mounts,

4:43 To sever the distance between me and my calamities.

4:47 I forget the worries of life when they befall me,

4:51 And I find the bounty of Allah on every side.

4:55 I am absent from the world through the delight of what I behold,

4:59 Even though I am not absent from the abode of hardship.

5:03 I travel from my own self to the garden of its longing,

5:07 Finding delight in the union of love, though I am absent.

5:12 How beautiful is longing when it urges me

5:16 Toward the solace of affliction and the fulfillment of my desires."

Breeze of Magic | Episode (26) | Journey of longing

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