Bring joy to your fellow man, for one day it will be your companion.

Bringing joy-suroor, to people is an important aspect of human character which is highly recommended by Islam. Joy is an inner feeling of happiness which is attained through many ways. I can only point out to two of them in this short post. One is through the self attempt and desire to adopt a positive outlook towards life; this kind of approach is often possible when the individual is surrounded and blessed with the right circumstances and conditions which are fundamental to the positive attitude of man. However there are others who are not necessarily blessed with the same circumstances therefore these kind of people, who are not as fortunate, need to experience joy-suroor, in their life through the love and compassion of others, and this is the second source of “joy” to be attained by man.

Imam Ali meets alkhizir (4)

“Ask me before you lose me”

Never in the recorded history of mankind that any man, intellectual, philosopher, or any human social ranking, have the confidence to say to people “ask me before you lose me, that I know about the paths of heavens more than I know of the paths of the Earth(1)”; this statement was uttered by Imam Ali at the Mosque before many Muslims, during the occasion of his election as a forth Caliph. He has not only said such profound statement but surely he has substantiated it with a vast ocean of wisdom which is still being considered the main source of spiritual guidance for all truth seekers from all denominations. It is worth noting here that it seems that all types of people want to claim some kind of relationship to Imam Ali.

Galactic Embrace is only a Glorification of the Divine.

Love is the divine urge of the Cosmos to merge into the Ocean of the Beloved. And it is a true form of Glorifications of the Absolute.

All existents pursue Love merely as inevitable expression to embrace its real Cosmological self; although man, as free being, often embraces the illusionary forms of Love.

17:44 Glorifies Him, the seven heavens and the earth and all that is therein. And there is not a thing but glorifies in His praise; but ye understand not their Glorification. Lo! He is ever Clement, Forgiving.

تُسَبِّحُ لَهُ السَّمَاوَاتُ السَّبْعُ وَالأَرْضُ وَمَن فِيهِنَّ وَإِن مِّن شَيْءٍ إِلاَّ يُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدَهِ وَلَـكِن لاَّ تَفْقَهُونَ تَسْبِيحَهُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ حَلِيمًا غَفُورًا 17:44

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