Come Closer

When times are troubled, come to us, Beloved!
When times are calm, come to us, my Friend!
Come despite our human nature!

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My Lord, protect the weak and the children!

Beloved, You created agitated times!
Beloved, so many of us lost Your breath!
Beloved, show us the Qutb!
For You shine through him!

A man came to me claiming to be rich
He was rich of himself!
Beloved! Wipe the ego out of the house!
For there can be only one master in it!

Novelty is often the shadow of Shaitan!
For the murid, there's no novelty!
There is only here and now!
Muhammad and his Sunna is here now!

For the Shia, the 14 Immaculates are here and now!
For the Christians, Jesus is here and now!
For the Muslims, Muhammad is here and now!

Spirituality is now and here
We are united with the master
Turn in and on in cosmic dance!
Beloved, Your smile animates the world!

Don't see religion as a mummy!
Religion is as alive as our heart!
Don't see religion as the past!
You would forget who you are!

Don't loose the key to your heart!
It leads to the dust of His feet!
Don't close your heart for the modern dreams!
The Beloved lives there!

If we were concerned about what matters,
We would not fight each other!
Beloved, help the pure heart
That are crying in silence!

My Friend, You are there and I am lost!
May I just be the river bed of Your river!
May I just be the oud You play on!

Beloved! Allow me to love!
Allow me to drink Your wine!
Allow to kiss your veils!
Beloved! Come closer!

Who am I to speak to You?
Who am I that You touched me?
Who am I to be such nothing?
Except the eye that searches for You
Through the veils!

Oh! Come in Beloved!
And enjoy my absence!
In love and devotion!
How could I one day
Be worthy of my Friend?

The world is full of mysteries
Of veils that appear and veils that vanish
Lead us on Your path of Standhood
For religious souls stand!

Don't search for diamonds in the world
Don't search when they are here
Reflecting in our eyes a ray if His light
Could we be thankful to Him!

Some of us may think they are chosen
But this belief can be such a curse!
Beloved, open our eyes and our ears
For we are miserable egos!

Muhammad fought the idols
Idols today are ideologies
Without ideologies our heart reaches the moment
When, my Friend, Your presence fulfills

Our world is full of magicians
That turned religion into ideologies
God into a void concept
Spirituality in a business!

Beloved, You laugh!

Sometimes, my Friend!
I feel You nicely play with us
With humor!

The laws of men lead us to decadence
And corruption
And loss of meaning!
How can it be different?

I could say I did
I created I invented I had an idea
But
When I realized there was no I
I felt my Friend taking all the space

Everywhere something is profound
You are
Beloved!

(Al-Zeituni, July 2014)