A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

Take this kiss upon the brow! And,
in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong,
who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night,
or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
 I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore,
 And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep-while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?

Air

Up in the major's tree
The one he planted back when he was just a boy
Back in 1923
Thirty meters and a foot, take a look, take a climb
What you'll find is the product of a seed

The seed is sown, all alone
It grows above with a heart of love
A sharpened shelter of
The animals of land and cold weather breathing
We're all breathing

Yo I fall over and over again I dont know why is it the sins I commit again

It causes me pain to see myself stuck in this drain

I look up and I call out Your name

Oh Allah im going insane

Stuck in the game

And trying to live my life in the fast lane

But I got no one to blame

But my self I cant complain

I gotta change

Use my heart and my brain

My Lord I need You

You the One

You are Haq You are Truth

You in my heart and I gotta understand

Life int hard cause You got me in Your hands

My Lord I need You

Shower your blessings Your most beloved

And oh Allah thanks to Thee

For sending us a mercy

In the form of Nabi

Most gracious eternally

Bless your Nabi

I know Im nothing I cant explain

How can someone that dont exist have a name

I dont exist Ive noticed this

Put my hands up and accept my Lords service

Striving for eternal bliss

Forgive for all the sins I committed

For being arrogant and being big headed

Help me in this strive to break ma ego

When ever I get a bad thought I say yo its a no no

And Im like lets go go

Time to read my prayers and pray to my Lord yo

That happiness that fills my heart

Its time to pray its time to start

Shower Your Barakh nothing is ever hard

To love You like a 2 year old child loves his mother

It brings tears to my eyes as I shed another

To see You in the hearts of my sisters and brothers

I hope forever we are lovers

Oh my Lord grant me Your love

Grant me the love of the ones who love You

Grant me the actions that lead to Your love

So my heart beats Allah Hoo

To see Your Throne in the hearts of Your creation

As I sit and call out Your name in meditation

I put my hands up You give me your salvation

We all gotta recognise our Lords ovation.

Pick out Your name and use it for concentration

On my own or in congregation

As we call out Your name with admiration

Dedicate my self with full dedication

Closer than a jugular vein

My Lord I am going insane

My Lord as I call out Your name

My Lord

My Lord I need You!

The Qur'an (Quran, Koran, Al-Qur'an). Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali. (mobi)

The necessity of Knowledge

“All humans are dead except those who have knowledge ... And all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds ... And those who do good are deceived, except those who are sincere ... And those who are sincere are always in a state of worry” (Imam Shafi’)

'Knowledge will surrender nothing to a man, unless man surrenders his all to it.'

If You Are Caught Sleeping at The Job!

Things To Say If You Get Caught Sleeping At Your Desk

15. "They told me at the blood bank this might happen."

14. "This is just a 15 minute power-nap like they raved about in the last time management course you sent me to."

13. "Whew! Guess I left the top off the liquid paper"

12. "I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm!"

11. "This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!"

10. "I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance"

9. "Actually I'm doing a "Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan" (SLEEP) I learned it at the last mandatory seminar you made me attend.

8. "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work related stress."

7. "Darn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem."



6. "The coffee machine is broken...."

5. "Someone must've put decaf in the wrong pot."

4. "Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won't wear off!"

3. "Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the workaholic!"

2. "I wasn't sleeping, I was trying to pick up contact lens without hands."

AND THE #1 BEST THING TO SAY IF YOU GET CAUGHT SLEEPING AT YOUR DESK:
"Amen"

Half a Brain

A British doctor says, "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can 
take a kidney out of one man, put it in another man, and have him looking 
for work in six weeks." 

A German doctor says, "That's nothing . We can take a lung out of one 
person, put it in another man,and have him looking for work in four weeks." 

A Russian doctor says, "In my country, medicine is so advanced we take half 
a heart out of one person, put it in another man,and have both of them 
looking for work in two weeks." 

The American doctor, not to be outdone, says, "You guys are way behind us. 
We just took a man with no brain out of Texas, put him in the White House, 
and now half the country is looking for work.

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is politics?" 

Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I'm the breadwinner of the family, 

so let's call me capitalism. Your Mom, she's the administrator of the money, so we'll call 

her the Government. We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you the people. 

The nanny, we'll consider her the Working Class. And your baby brother, we'll call him 

the Future. Now, think about that and see if that makes sense," 

So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what dad had said. 

Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds 

that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parents' room and 

finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. 

Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. 

He gives up and goes back to bed. The next morning, the little boy says to his father, 

"Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now." 

The father says, "Good son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about." 

The little boy replies, "Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class, the Government 

is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the Future is in deep poo."

Our Sustenance is from Allah and only Allah

Do not seek sustenance from people. Allah is the real Provider. If He wills a certain person to be the means of your livelihood, do not consider that person to be in control of your destiny. Have faith and be certain in the knowledge that your daily bread does not depend upon any mortal, but upon Allah who created all.

--Al-Hujwiri (RA)

Life Blossoms...

Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry.
Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake.
Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake.
Laughter always follows tears.
Blessed are those who understand.
Life blossoms wherever water flows.
Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown.

-Moulana Rumi (RA)
Selections Poems from: Khayam, Rumi, Hafez, Moulana Shah Maghsoud

Three qualities of Allah's Friend

The sign of the friend of Allah is that he has three qualities: a generosity like that of the ocean, a compassion like that of the sun, and a humility like that of the earth.

- Bayazid Bistami (RA)

Note: Some books attribute this quote to Shaikh Khwaja Moinudeen Chishti (RA) of Ajmer

Don't listen to your ego

Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul.

- Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani (RA)

Proof of Imperfectness

"If anyone claims of perfectness (in the religion), that's the greatest evidence of his imperfectness"