We say qiyamah…
we think it a distant day.
Yet its root is qiyam:
to rise to one's feet.
Qiyamah is a rising.
Whoever rises, remains.
Love did not fit in earth or sky;
it fit in a heart.
The place it fit
was shaken from its place.
The heart is shaken from its place,
the earth is shaken from its place.
One breaks loose within,
one without.
When the earth is shaken with its tremendous quaking…
Al-Zalzalah 99:1
The heartbeat, all at once…
From the One, to the One.
Everything collapses in "la" (no).
The name collapses, the crown collapses,
the wall you called "I" collapses.
There is no god but Him. Everything will perish except His Face.
Al-Qasas 28:88
Not…
is.
Not…
is.
What is not is us,
what is, is He.
Seek the means to reach Him.
Al-Ma'idah 5:35
The way is sought, the way is found…
but whoever thinks the way lies in his own knowledge
is left on the way.
To be left on the way:
both to be on the way,
and to be stranded on it.
Knowledge is a lamp;
whoever takes the lamp for the sun
is left in the dark.
At the pilgrimage everyone rises,
and says a single word:
"Labbayk."
Here I am, my Allah, here I am.
The body comes from earth, returns to earth.
The spirit comes from Him, returns to Him.
Some live this return when they die,
some die before they die.
Whoever is torn down by "la"
rises with "illa".
La ilaha illallah.
That love…
that divine gaze.
Wholeness,
in harmony from one note to the next.
What comes from light returns to light.
Light upon light.
No meaning was left in the word,
no word in the meaning.
What remains is He.
Understand me.
Know me.
The question is not when the Hour will come.
The question is this:
Before I died,
was I able to rise?
Qiyamah is a rising.
Whoever rises… remains.
Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we return.
Al-Baqarah 2:156