Quote: Wings of Desire

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim



In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

Wings of Desire



‘People are distracted by objects of desire,

and afterwards repent of the lust they’ve

indulged,

because they have indulged with a phantom

and are left even farther from Reality than

before.

Your desire for the illusory could be a wing,

by means of which a seeker might ascend to

Reality.

When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops

off;

you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy.

Preserve the wing and don’t indulge such lust,

so that the wing of desire may bear you to

Paradise.

People fancy that they are enjoying themselves,

bu they are really tearing out their wings

for the sake of an illusion.

(Mathnawi III.2133-2138)

The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa'sallam said:



"The Muslim is a unique Ummah among the whole of mankind:

Their Land is ONE, their War is ONE, their Peace is ONE,

Their Honour is ONE and their Trust is ONE."

[Ahmad]