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"The World Struck Gold"
by Harmohanjit Singh Pandher (copyright 2007)

You're our father, you're our mother
A precious rock unlike any other
When Allah crowned you the world struck gold
And you keep giving back ten thousand fold
Bringing our children in from the cold
Giving the forgotten a ...

I truly believe Allah is most merciful. If you pray with your whole heart and recite salwaat through out the day, you will find peace within your self and around you.

SEPARATION FROM God is like a well;
Remembrance of Him is the rope.

DIVAN-I SHAMS 19325

BECOME SILENT and in silence move toward non-existence,
And when you become non-existent, you will be all praise!

DIVAN-I SHAMS 2628


FEED YOUR heart on the love of God that you may become
immortal, and your ...

PRAYER DOES not consist in forms alone. Formal prayer has a beginning and an end, like all forms and bodies and everything that involves speech and sound, but the soul is unconditional and infinite: it has neither beginning nor end ...Prayer is the drowning and unconsciousness of the soul, so that ...

Ya Ali Madad

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I HAVE prayed so much that I have become a living prayer -
Everyone who meets me begs a prayer from me.

DIVAN-I-SHAMS 903

NEVER BE without the remembrance of God, for his remembrance provides the bird of the spirit with strength, feathers, and wings.


FIHI MA FIHI 175




THE PURPOSE of ritual ...

REFRESH YOUR faith, but not with talking.
You have secretly refreshed your desires.
As long as desires are fresh, faith is not,
for it is desire that locks that gate.

MASNAVI I:1078-91


THE FAITHFUL believer bows willingly, seeking the good
pleasure of God and direction his life towards that.
The ...

THE REWARDS of a life of faith and devotion to God are love
and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

MASNAVI II:2601



WHEN YOU put a cargo on board a ship, you make that
venture on trust,
For you do not know whether you will be drowned or
safely reach the other shore ...

Loving Muhammad (s) is ibaadah, part of our religion. He (sallallahu `alayhi wasallam) says, "one of would not attain true faith, until you love me more than you love your parents, your children and the whole world."


The ummah today loves Rasul(sallallahu `alayhi wasallam). If you ask any Muslim ...

Union with God will turn your thorns into roses.

OUTER, PHYSICAL, light comes from the sun, while inner
light comes from the reflection of the rays of divine glory.
The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart,
while the light which infuses the heart is the light of God,
which is pure and unconnected to the light of ...

SINCE YOUR vision is so limited,
Close your eyes and see with the eyes of God.
His sight for ours - what a recompense!
With His divine perception,
You will find everything you desire.

MASNAVI I:921-2

THE EYE is given sight through nearness to God.
EVERYONE, ACCORDING to their spiritual ...

Great is our gladness to serve God through others,
For our Father taught us we all are sisters and brothers,
And the people we meet on life's thoroughfares
Are burdened with trouble and sorrow and cares,
And this is the chance we are given each day
To witness for God and to learn to obey.

Thou ...

When you are with everyone but me,
you're with no one.
When you are with no one but me,
you're with everyone.
Instead of being so bound up with everyone,
be everyone.
When you become that many, you're nothing.
Empty.

Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God,
God is in the look of your ...

Few
Have the strength
To be a real
Hero--


That rare
Man or woman
Who always keeps
Their Word.

Even an angel needs rest.
Integrity creates a body so vast

A thousand winged ones will
Plead,

"May I lay my cheek
Against
You?"

Hafiz
The Great Sufi Master.

I am full of love tonight
Come look into my eyes, and let's go off
Sailing, my dear , on a long ocean ride.

This would will not touch you,
I will keep you snug upon my seat.

Let's plot
To make the moon jealous
With a radiance leaping from your cheek.

I will be full of love tonight,
Come look into ...

From one year to another God will gladly give
To everyone who seeks Him and tries each day to live
A little bit more closely to God and to each other,
Seeing everyone who passes as a neighbor, friend, or brother,
Not only joy and happiness but the faith to meet each trial
Not with fear and ...

It takes a mother's patience to bring a child up right-
Her courage and her cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.
It takes a mother's wisdom to recognize our needs
And to give us reassurrance by her loving words and deeds.
And that is why, in all this world, there could not be another
Who could ...

Love is unselfish, understanding, and kind,
For it sees with its heart and not with its mind.
Love is the answer that everyone seeks.
Love is the language that every heart speaks.
Love cant be bought-it is priceless and free.
Love, like pure magic, is a sweet mystery.

Love One Another

To love one ...

God bless you most abundantly
with joy that never cease,
The joy of knowing that He came
to bring the whole world peace.

Anticipation

God gives us a power we so seldom employ,
For we're so unaware it is filled with such joy,
The gift that God gives us is anticipation,
Which we can fulfill with ...

Remember that ideals are like
stars up in the sky-
You can never really reach them,
hanging in the heavens high,
But like the mighty mariner
who sailed the storm-tossed sea
And used the stars to chart his course
with skill and certainty,
You too can chart your course in life
with high ideals and ...

In this world of casual carelessness,
it's discouraging to try
To keep our morals and our standards
and our ideals high.
But no life is worth living
unless it's built on truth,
And we lay our life's foundation
in the golden years of youth.
So allow no one to stop you
or hinder you from laying
A firm ...

Faith, hope, and love are more precious than gold.
For if you possess them, you've riches untold.
With faith to believe what your eyes cannot see
And hope to look forward to new joys to be
And love to transform the most commonplace
Into beauty and kindness and goodness and grace,
There's nothing ...

The rainbow is God's promise
of hope for you and me,
And though the clouds hang heavy
and the sun we cannot see,
We know above the dark clouds
that fill the stormy sky
Hope's rainbow will come shining through
when the clouds have drifted by.


Hope and Faith and Love

Hope for a world grown ...

Loving Muhammad (s) is ibaadah, part of our religion. He (sallallahu `alayhi wasallam) says, "one of would not attain true faith, until you love me more than you love your parents, your children and the whole world."


The ummah today loves Rasul(sallallahu `alayhi wasallam). If you ask any Muslim ...

Each day there are showers of blessings
sent from the Father above,
For God is a great, lavish giver,
and there is no end to His love.
And His grace is more than sufficient,
His mercy is boundless and deep,
And His infinite blessings are countless-
and all this we're given to keep
If we but seek God ...

Sickness and sorrow come to us all,
But Through it we grow and learn to stand tall,
For trouble is part and parcel of life,
And no one can grow without struggle and strife.
The more we endure with patience and grace,
The stronger we grow and the more we can face,
And the more we can face, the ...

God, be my resting place and my protection
In hours of trouble, defeat, and dejection.
May I never give way to self-pity and sorrow,
May I always be sure of a better tomorrow,
May I stand undaunted, come what may,
Secure in the knowledge I have only to pray
And ask my Creator and Father above
To ...

Often your tasks will be many,
and more than you think you can do.
Often the road will be rugged,
and the hills insurmountable too.
But always remember the hills ahead
are never as steep as they seem.
And with faith in your heart, start upward
and climb till you reach your dream.
For nothing in life ...