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THE CONTRAST 
 By:
SHAH JAMAL HASHMI 
 
This world’s just a contrast of the original. Those who follow the rules of the ‘Real’do not believe in the earthly desires. They have already witnessed the Truth, whichneeds not be revealed to them again. According to them, all that is in this world is just the opposite of reality, they say;When we are living, we are dead. When we are dead, we start living.When we eat, we are starving, when we are fasting, we are sated.In our sorrows we are happy, contented in our miseries.In our shadows we are found, and non-existent in our existence!What we think lust is, it is not. Except for that lust, all is lust.What we think is original, is not. All the rest is original!We think the day as light, while night is all lighted.We think the dawn as hope, while setting is the decider!We say closing of eyes is sleeping, while it is not.We see with an, ‘Inner-Eye’ with our eyes shut here.If you do not see ‘this’ world,You get a glimpse of the Real world!What we call wise here, is a fool in reality.What’s the use of the wisdom about the foolishness!Remember, wise is one who seems foolish,A King under the cloak of a jester!Love is not as we know it, it is Divine.Love is Divine, as ‘We’ know it.Truth is what is hidden in the lies.What we call the truth, is all a lie.Eyes are liars, ears are liars, tongue a liar, man a liar.Only the heart is Truth, covered with lies.We see the back of mirror, and call it a mirror.Turn the mirror, and you’ll see the reality.Polish your heart of all the coverings,To see your face in the eternal mirror.
 
That what we seek here, is not to be found here,Come on, get up, and leave this worthless world,Merge in the beauty of the ‘Real’ to be eternal,Lest you be deprived of such an honour!Beauty, we have despised always,By calling perfect ness its true friend,All that is existent is beautiful,And also that what is non-existent!Individualism we find in fellow humans,Is naught but the contrast of ‘nature’We are different hollows of the reed flute,Making music with the breath of God.These storms of thoughts we face in our minds,Are naught but minute particles of endless universe,The only reality is the pleasure of ‘being’Merge into the ‘Truth’ and you’ll conquer the universe!Emotions are but exaggerations,Illusions to our own ‘self’A Truthful man wastes no time,Dismisses emotions, whirls and dances!We consider the time as absolute,While time is just one of the endless creations,Time, timelessness, being, non-being,Are all the curtains hindering the ‘Truth’.Lift these curtains while dancing,And you’ll be greeted with an undefined pleasure.Whom we call beloved, is an insult of True love,Come and experience this ‘True love’Be drunk, but not a word of disrespect,Beloved is too Divine to be instructed.We find the words as expressive,While silence teaches the most,Beauty, love, wisdom and the soul,Exist only when silence accompanies them.You asked the embryo, you got the answer,Womb is the only world of the embryo,And this world’s a children’s playground,‘Be an adult’ is, what ‘Rumi’ has told us so!
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