HeartBeat Summer 2009 - Sufi Ruhaniat International

Forty Years with Jaman—Love on the Path of CommerceA Response to lines of an “Alapa” from the “Vadan” of Hazrat Inayat Khanby Najat Roberts, June, 2009(“Alapa – Extemporization: A divine word in the form of advice.”)Word of Inayat: Is love pleasure, is love merriment? No, love is longing constantly, love is perseveringunweariedly.Commentary: Some days this is actually work. I am weary, longing for more time with Jaman. I staythe course, finding what I need to do to keep me busy while he is working, often away from home.I persevere and find a twenty year career while he is ever working, doing his job and that of otherswhen needed. He gets it done! He helps others find jobs through his national network of contacts.Wow! How does he do that? We find compromise to satisfy the longing. We squeeze in a movie oran early dinner out if I can separate him from his computer or his Blackberry. (Is he doing tassawuriBarack Obama?) It was easier when it was just a simple cell phone. Is love merriment? It helps! Jamanmakes a point of making me laugh every day. Laughter gets us through.Word of Inayat: Love is hoping patiently.Commentary: Will he be home on time? Will that blessed Blackberry ever be turned off? It dingalingsconstantly and he seems wired to it. Will he remember to feed the cats before he turns on the game ifI am not here? Oh, I realize they will badger him into it soon enough. Will he stay awake long enoughfor us to have a few minutes? Maybe not, but at least he is here, asleep in his chair. We laugh beforethe evening ends.Word of Inayat: Love is willing surrenderCommentary: I have been following this man around the western states for over forty years. Surrender?Certainly that is what it is. I want romantic comedy, he wants adventure. We see the adventuremovie first, then the comedy. Occasionally it is the other way around. He goes to China, I stay home.»Sufi Ruhaniat International 19