DIE BEFORE YOUR DEATH [ POETRY ]

DIE BEFORE YOUR DEATH

Tell me I can get lost

Tell me I can lose myself in your Presence

In the overwhelming moment of real submission

Tell me I can remain forever broken

In You

For You

With You.

Tell me I can remain here forever

Away, while still here.

Did not the Prophet (SAW) say: "Die before your death?"

At first I thought maybe it was only a reminder

to remember our meeting with You.

But then I thought how I wish I could die before my death:

Have a soul that is no longer in this life---even while the body must remain.

A heart that is freed from the shackles of dunya---even while the legs must walk its streets.

Have a nafs that is in complete rest and satisfaction with its' Lord-even while the crumbling shell remains.

A soul that is already there---even before it is there.

A soul detached.

A nafs mutmainah---in the truest and deepest and realest sense (Qur'an, 89:27)

For as the great scholar said, rahimahu Allah, "He who does not enter the paradise of this life, will not enter the paradise of the next."

N / F : FROM "RECLAIM YOUR HEART", BY YASMIN MOGAHED.