Life Increasing Light
If you have a heart, go and circumambulate the Ka'ba of the heart; the meaning of the Ka'ba, which you think is made of earth, is the heart!
Allah Almighty has made it obligatory for you to circumambulate the Ka'ba of the visible and known form, so that you may obtain a Ka'ba of the heart cleansed of impurities!
Know well that if you hurt and break a heart, which is the house of Allah, Allah will not accept your visit, even if you go to the Ka'ba a thousand times on foot!
You should give all you have, all your wealth and possessions, and take a heart, and that heart will give you light in the grave, in that dark night!
If you bring thousands of bags full of gold to Allah, Allah Almighty will say, "If you want to bring us something, bring a won heart!"
"Because gold and silver are nothing to us! If you want us, if you want our consent, what we want is the heart!"
The ruined heart, which you do not value, which you consider as a straw, is higher than the Throne, higher than the Kurs, higher than the Globe, higher than the Tab, higher than the Pen!...
The ruined heart is the nazargah of the Almighty, the place where the Almighty looks, the place where the Almighty takes refuge! How great, how powerful is the Being who created it!
To build and repair a poor heart that is broken and in two hundred pieces is worth more than pilgrimage and umrah in the sight of Allah Almighty!
The treasures of Allah are in the ruined heart!
If you want to be happy, if you want to rise spiritually, try to win hearts and leave pride and arrogance behind!
If the help of the hearts you win is with you, the springs of wisdom will flow from your heart!
Your tongue will flow like a flood of life; your breath, like the breath of Jesus Christ, will cure diseases!
Both worlds were created for one heart; think about the meaning of the hadîth: "If it were not for you, I would not have created this universe!
"If this were not so, where would your existence, your place, the sun, the moon, the earth, the sun, the moon, the earth, this firmament exist?
Shut up; if there were two hundred tongues in every hair of your body and you tried to describe the heart with them, you would still not be able to describe it; the heart is inexpressible, it cannot be described!
How many waters flowed before you!
how many gardens have they abandoned
O heedless one, who is lost in sorrow for no reason, and who is saddened by the worldly possessions he cannot obtain! Open the Qur'an and read the verse: "How many running waters and gardens have people before you abandoned!"
Who gets angry because of his breed of horse, his fancy saddle, who fills his heart with envy and hatred, who falls into troubles and gussas! Go on, read the verse, "How many streams and gardens have the people who came before you abandoned!"
You are full of bowels and therefore full of filth! In fact, you are in filth; you are a kind of filth! You have given yourself over to the whim of your nafs desires and hatreds! O heedless person who lives with filth and is covered in filth! Go and recite the verse, "How many streams and gardens have the people who came before you abandoned!"
O sheikh, full of causes and worldly desires; O wretch, devoid of meaning, caught up in vanity! O one who appears to exist when he does not! Go away; recite the verse, "How many streams and gardens have the people who came before you forsaken!"
Never mind your sultanate and lordship; you are dying a little bit every day! When the day comes, you will die completely, you will be buried under a heap of earth! Think of that and go and read the verse, "How many streams and gardens have people who came before you left!"
Where is that beautiful face, those beautiful eyes, those charms, those coyness, those egos, those self-importance, those self-importance?... The whole body has decayed and disintegrated; the hollows of those beautiful eyes have been filled with earth!... Come to your senses and go and read the verse, "How many streams and gardens have the people who came before you abandoned!"
Don't put your cheek on the cheek of the beautiful ones, think of the end; imagine your cheek, your face, rotting away! Go on; recite the verse, "How many streams and gardens have the builders who came before you forsaken!"
Whether you are very rich, have a vineyard, a garden, a mansion, a palace, what are these against death? Can you withstand these things, can you defeat death with these things? Go on, read the verse, "How many streams and gardens have the people who came before you abandoned!"
Where are those like Pharaoh, like Alexander, like Genghis, who took countries and conquered the world? Where are the oppressors who shed the blood of thousands of people? What service have they rendered to the people? Come to your senses and go and read the verse: "How many streams and gardens have the people who came before you abandoned!"
O wretch who sees the coffins of people from afar and does not learn a lesson, and even laughs, not thinking of death; O heedless one whose eyes are not opened! Go and read the verse, "How many streams and gardens have the people who came before you abandoned!"
The sentences repeated at the end of the couplets are quoted from verse 44/25 of the Surat al-Duhan.
