A Dead Heart

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ 

Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar ar-Rumi (q.s.) addressed the following lines to those who have been deprived of the teachings of the prophets and scholars and, thus, have not received their due share of knowledge concerning divine secrets:  This is an extract from “Tears of the Heart, Rumi Selection”: 

“You plan to put a faded and decayed heart,

On the table used for the washing of corpses,

And you intend to proceed with it,

To the Presence of your Lord? 

Allah may Say to you:

‘You impudent and insolent individual!

How can you come before Me with a dead heart;

Is this a graveyard? 

Go back and bring me a heart alive

With Divine Secrets and

Imbued with the beauty

Of the spiritual worlds.’ 

The sky is high in form.

Yet, spiritual height and

Genuine loftiness belongs

To pure hearts. 

Apparent height belongs to bodies.

Yet, bodies are as

Names before the Reality

Of what they

Spiritually point towards.”