The Rising and the Hereafter

congratulate­the­Believers­and­the­Muslims­adherent­to­the­path
of­Ahl­as-sunnat!
We­invoke­Allâhu­ta’âlâ,­our­Absolute­Sanctuary,­Most­Kind,
and­ Most­ Generous,­ for­ ismat­ (protection­ against­ wrongdoing)
and­ success.­ Âmîn­ wa­ hasb-un-Allah­ wa­ ni’mal-wakîl­ wa­ sall-
Allâhu­’alâ­Muhammadin­wa­âlihi­wa­sahbihi­ajma’în.
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O son of Adam, open your eyes, take a look at the earth.
What is the power that makes these lovely flowers, and kills them?
Every flower praises Haqq ta’âlâ with elegance, and entreats Him;
Wolves howl and birds sing, always, to announce who created them.
They make praise of His omnipotence and His omnipresence;
And His overpowering exacts their colour out of them.
Losing their colour day after day, they fall back unto earth;
Suffice these events as a lesson, an ’ârif perceives them.
Would that you beheld this secret, or at least tasted this woe,
And thawed in your existence; it takes a human to see them!
Anyone who penetrates this message knows that all who come,
Will go back one day, tasting the drink of death that awaits them.
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