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Sufism & The Metaphysics of Love
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My friend Londyn sent me this a long time ago and I couldn’t be more grateful. I feel like alot of people who grew up Muslim or often mix or confuse culture with religion feel like you have to struggle and oppress thyself to be a “good Muslim.” While I do think the plights of your life build beautiful lessons and reframe your everyday habits, by divesting from them, you may learn you didn’t need them or were reliant on them in the first place— this video offers the opposite. To love god is to love thyself, to love others is to love god to treat each interaction or moment of intimacy as a godly one is to center love.
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la yugular rosalia
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I honestly recommend the whole LUX album, but this song specifically lives in a pocket of my heart. For this album, Rosalia studied a multitude of saints and mystics from different countries and faith practices, singing in 13 different languages to evoke the spirit and mind of those saints. My favorite is La Yugalar, in which she speaks about Sufi mystic Rabia Al Adawiyya, a freed slave and first female mystic in Sufism/islam. Rabia believed in a selfless love of Allah, being quoted saying “I want to burn down heaven and quench the fires of hell” with a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other, proving she loved Allah for their divinity and not for reward or out of fear = Ishq. O my Lord, if I worship you from fear of hell, burn me in hell.If I worship you from hope of Paradise, bar me from its gates. But if I worship you,for yourself alone, grant me then the beauty of your Face. Rosalia also speaks of this concept of macrocosm and microcosm which I particularly study in Islam. It’s the concept of interconnectivity, not distinguishing yourself from Allah but understanding Allah, like yourself, lives in the big and small of our everyday realities. A drop of saliva occupies the titanic, a galaxy occupies a thorn, a thorn takes up a continent, a continent takes up a galaxy, etc etc etc. she also positions one of my favorite Quran verses: when praying don’t look up, the sky is a thorn, for Allah is closer to you than your own jugular vein (the vein that provides all life source). Sonically, the build up of the song and the dichotomy of tackling two completely non narrow subjects in Arabic is equally impressive, real tear jerker.
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praying to St Anthony when you lose something
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Our Portuguese father, catholic patron and Saint of lost or stolen items. I’m not catholic, but catholicism and saint hood have always interested me. I think it’s silly when people say that that saints are false idols in the face of god because if god was so miracoulous why wouldn’t god bestow their gifts onto others— a vessel of the mouth and body to the ear. Anyways, whenever I lose something I give it a day or two but if it’s urgent, I always pray to Saint Anthony and it always works. I’m still waiting for my prayer dedicated to my lost yeahitsjewelery name plate necklace to come in clutch, but that time too shall pass
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