teenageascetic

[teenageascetic]

Christ is risen!

[teenageascetic]

Prayer of St. Benedict of Nursia.

English:

May the Holy Cross be my light Let not the dragon be my guide Begone Satan Never tempt me with your vanities All that pours from you is evil. Drink your own poison. Amen.

Latin:

Crux Sacra Sit Mihi Lux Non Draco Sit Mihi Dux Vade Retro Satana Nunquam Suade Mihi Vana Sunt Mala Quae Libas Ipse Venena Biba. Amen.

[teenageascetic]

“Man’s soul thirsts for an eternal life of happiness. The soul seeks it… And that is why people hasten to God’s temple for the bright Matins service—not only the faithful, but even those whose consciousness is far from the Christian religion.

They come not just to have a look at the solemnity of Christian services. The soul, given to every person at birth by God, is drawn to the light of the unsetting Sun of Righteousness, and yearns for the truth.”

-Archimandrite Ioann Krestiankin.

[teenageascetic]

“Several times he is invoked in company with Ahura: the two gods form a pair, for the light of Heaven and Heaven itself are in their nature inseparable. Furthermore, if it is said that Ahura created Mithra as he did all things, it is likewise said that he made him just as great and worthy as himself. Mithra is indeed a yazata, but he is also the most potent and most glorious of the yazatas.”

-Franz Cumont in “The Mysteries of Mithra”.

Photo is a depiction of Antiochus I of Commagene shaking the hand of Mithra.

[teenageascetic]

Traditional tombstones of Alevi Kurds in Dersim

[teenageascetic]

Allah Allah desem gelsem/If I say Allah Allah and come.

“If I am a nightingale if I approach and come If I stand in the presence of Allah If I am a rosy red apple If I sprout on your branch, what do you say?

If you are a rosy red apple If you come to sprout on my branch If I am a silver clad crook staff If I draw and strike a blow, what do you say?

If you are a sliver clad crook staff If you come to draw and strike a blow If I am a handful of maize If I am scattered on the ground, what do you say?

If you are a handful of maize If you come to be scattered on the ground If I am a beautiful grey partridge If I gather up bit after bit, what do you say?

If you are a beautiful grey partridge If you come to gather up bit after bit If I am a young falcon bird If I seize and steal you off, what do you say?

If you are a young falcon bird If you come to seize and steal me off If I am a shower of sleet If I break your wing, what do you say?

If you are a shower of sleet If you come to break my wing If I am a wild nor’easter wind If I spurn and disperse, what do you say?

If you are a wild nor’easter wind If you come to spurn and disperse If I have a great sickness If I lie down in your way, what do you say?

If you have a great sickness If you come to lie down in my way If I am Azrâil If I take your ruh, what do you say?

If you are Azrâil If you come to take my ruh If I am a subject destined for Jannah If I enter into Jannah, what do you say?

If you are a subject destined for Jannah If you come to enter into Jannah If you find your master Pir Sultan If we enter in company together, what do you say?”

-Pir Sultan Abdal.

[teenageascetic]

“The Beloved.

Mortal never won to view thee, Yet a thousand lovers woo thee; Not a nightgale but knows In the rose-bud sleeps the rose.

Love is where the glory falls Of thy face : on convent walls Or on tavern floors the same Unextinguishable flame.

Where the turban’d anchorite Chanteth Allah day and night, Church-bells ring the call to prayer, And the Cross of Christ is there.”

-Khājeh Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, translated by R. A. Nicholson.

[teenageascetic]

“Love’s Alchemy

Some that have deeper digged love's mine than I, Say, where his centric happiness doth lie: I have loved, and got, and told, But should I love, get, tell, till I were old, I should not find that hidden mystery; Oh, 'tis imposture all: And as no chemic yet the elixir got, But glorifies his pregnant pot, If by the way to him befall Some odoriferous thing, or medicinal, So, lovers dream a rich and long delight, But get a winter-seeming summer's night.”

Our ease, our thrift, our honour, and our day, Shall we, for this vain bubble's shadow pay? Ends love in this, that my man, Can be as happy as I can; if he can Endure the short scorn of a bridegroom's play? That loving wretch that swears, 'Tis not the bodies marry, but the minds, Which he in her angelic finds, Would swear as justly, that he hears, In that day's rude hoarse minstrelsy, the spheres. Hope not for mind in women; at their best Sweetness and wit, they are but mummy, possessed.”

-John Donne.

[teenageascetic]

“A service that will be instrumental in taking the heart comes before the dhikr and the muraqabah on the road to Allah. Some (of them) think that busying oneself with nafl worship is superior. Whereas proving the heart with inspiration, is serving others for Allah.

Service, is from the fundamental procedures of tasavvuf and at the same time one of its goals. Sufis, have greatly valued that a person is unsatisfied with his own peace, that he also thinks of others and helps them. This comprehension of help is very wide. Taking the heart of someone, helping with one of his affairs, solving one of his difficulties, teaching something is included in this.”

Muhammed Mübarek El-Hüseyni.

[teenageascetic]

Christos Anesti!

[teenageascetic]

“And the same chain of narrators that he Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Verily, Allah the Great and Almighty has a pillar of ruby, the top of which is under the Throne, and the bottom of which is on the back of the fish which swims in the Seventh lowest Earth. When a servant of Allah says `there is no god but Allah’, the Throne trembles, and both the pillar and fish move. So Allah, the Blessed and the Most High says: `O Throne of Mine! Remain calm!’ Then it replies, `How shall I remain calm, when you have not forgiven the one who uttered those words?’ Then Allah, Blessed and Exalted be He, announces: `Bear witness, O inhabitants of My Heavens, that indeed I have pardoned the one who has uttered these words!’"

-Al-Tawhīd book 2 chapter 1 verse 20.

[teenageascetic]

“Narrated Anas bin Malik:

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) never proceeded (for the prayer) on the Day of `Id-ul-Fitr unless he had eaten some dates. Anas also narrated: The Prophet (ﷺ) used to eat odd number of dates.”

-Sahih al-Bukhari 953.

[teenageascetic]

Went to this beautiful mosque a few days ago💕

[teenageascetic]

“Abu Huraira R.A. reported Allah's Messenger ﷺ as saying: A woman may be married for four reasons: for her property, her status. her beauty and her religion, so try to get one who is religious, may your hand be besmeared with dust.”

-Sahih Al-Bukhari Book 8, Number 3457.

[teenageascetic]

The love doctor★彡

[teenageascetic]

“We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart. Observe both the number and the sequence. To begin with, let Him who is the Truth teach you that you must search for truth in those around you before you look for it in its intrinsic purity. You will afterwards learn why you must search for it in yourself before you do so in your neighbours. Thus in the enumeration of the Beatitudes in His Sermon He placed 'the merciful' before 'the pure in heart'. For the merciful quickly discover truth in their neighbours when they extend their sympathy to them, and so kindly identify them- selves with them that they feel their good and evil characteristics as if they were their own.”

-St Bernard of Clairvaux, The Twelve Degrees of Humility and of Pride.

[teenageascetic]

“Everything will be very simple and easy if you decide to do it unto God, for God’s sake, and to the glory of God. Everything in life and in the soul will immediately come together.”

-Father Ioann Krestiankin.