Reclaim Your Heart

(Nora) #1

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 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 (Quran 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.”

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