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| ~ Khalil Gibran ~ |
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| thezman |
| 06/07/05 at 20:20:42 |
| Bismillah [slm] 1. Seven times have I despised my Soul: The first time when I saw her being meek that she might attain height. The second time when I saw her limping before the crippled. The third time when she was given to choose between the hard and the easy, and she chose the easy. The fourth time when she committed a wrong, and comforted herself that others also commit wrong. The fifth time when she forbore for weakness, and attributed her patience to strength. The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks. And the seventh time when she sang a song of praise, and deemed it a virtue. 2. My friend, you and I shall remain strangers unto life, and unto one another, and each unto himself, until the day when you shall speak and I shall listen, deeming your voice my own voice; and when I shall stand before you, thinking myself standing before a mirror. 3. Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face, but you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror, but you are eternity and you are the mirror. 4. A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer, than one who is at hand. Is not the Mountain far more Awe-Inspiring, and more clearly visible to one passing through the Valley, than to those who inhabit the Mountain? 5. Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements? 6. Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. Fi Amanillah Ziad. |
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