Ahmad Kamal Feridi

if you have a Garden and a Library. You have everything you need.

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

"When your soul and mine have left our bodies
And we're buried alongside each other,..
A potter may, one day, mould the dust of both of us
Into the same clay"
~ Omar Khayyam

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

وقت نے جھک کر اعتراف کیا —
میں گزر جاتا ہوں…
اور تُو رہ جاتی ہے

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

"روح اور وقت کے بیچ گفتگو"
تحریر: احمد کمال فریدی

وقت بولا:
میں سب کچھ بدل دیتا ہوں۔
چہرے، آوازیں، نشان، حتیٰ کہ یادیں۔
میرے پاس ہتھیار ہیں — لمحے، دن، سال،
اور ایک خاموشی جو صدیوں جتنی بھاری ہے۔

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

روح نے آہستہ کہا:
میں وہ ہوں جو کبھی تھی،
اور پھر بھی…
ابھی باقی ہوں۔
میں وہ ہوں جو تمہارے بہاؤ میں بہتی نہیں،
بلکہ تمہارے رکنے پر ظاہر ہوتی ہوں۔
میں کوئی ماضی نہیں،
نہ مستقبل —
بس ایک موجودگی ہوں،
جسے تم محسوس تو کر سکتے ہو…
سمجھ نہیں سکتے۔

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

وقت ٹھہر سا گیا،
جیسے کسی نے اسے آئینہ دکھا دیا ہو۔

"تو پھر تُو کون ہے؟" وقت نے سوال کیا۔

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

روح مسکرائی —
وہ تھکی ہوئی تھی،
لیکن ہاری نہیں تھی۔

"تم سب کچھ بدل سکتے ہو،" روح نے کہا،
مگر میرا سفر تمہارے پیچھے نہیں —
تم سے پرے ہے۔
میں وہ لمحہ ہوں جو تمہاری گرفت سے پہلے کا ہے،
میں وہ سکوت ہوں جہاں تم ابھی پہنچے نہیں۔

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

I am going.... 🍀🍀🍀

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.

🍀~Hafiz~🍀

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

Yunus heard these words from the masters.
If you need this advice, take it.

They say one who is received by heart
becomes more beautiful.

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

" Yunus Emre "

Yunus Emre (d. 1320), called “the greatest folk poet in Islam” (Talat Sait Halman), was an unlettered Turkish shepherd who sang mystical songs which are still popular today. He was the first of a whole tradition of Turkish Sufi troubadors who sang of the

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

Renouncing the world is the beginning of worship.
If you are a believer, believe this.

Respect your parents and ancestry,
and you will have fine green clothes of your own.

If you earn the complaints of neighbors,
You’ll stay in Hell forever.

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

We seek lesser objects, needless of the prize of unlimited value.

The capacity of interpretation means that one can easily read something said by a wise man in two totally opposite manners.

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

"The Man who Knows"

The Sufi who knows the Ultimate Truth acts and speaks in a manner which takes into consideration the understanding, limitations and dominant concealed prejudices of his audience.

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

To the Sufi, worship means knowledge. Through knowledge he attains sight.

The Sufi abandons the tree ‘I’s. He does not say ‘for me’, ‘with me’, or ‘my property’. He must not attribute anything to himself.
Something is hidden in an unworthy shell.

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

It was time and place.’
Jafar son of Yahya became one of the foremost disciples of El-Arabi.

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

Ibn El Arabi

Mohiuddin ibn El-Arabi (1165-1240) is one of the great Sufis of the Middle Ages whose life and writings are shown nowadays to have deeply penetrated the thought of East and West alike. He was known to the Arabs as Sheikh El-Akbar, ‘the Greatest Sheikh’.

[Ahmad Kamal Feridi @AKFeridi]

‘Now that I am ready to answer the question you put to me, there is no need to put it at all.Thirty years ago, Jafar, thou hadst no need of me. Hat thou still no need of me? The Green One spoke of something wrong in thy seeking.