Glance
July 25th, 2010
“I know I’m younger than you, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know what’s best for me.
“I’m just saying that I need more of you.”
“More of what? I cook, I do the laundry, we screw, what more do you want?
“I mean I need less. Less of you rolling your eyes and spending your time at that tekke, That place is making you weird.”
“I have been called by Allâh’s guide Nazim al-Qubrusi …”
“Aw, c’mon …”
“to follow our Sufi poetress Rabia Basri …”
“you just need to drink more beer.”
“No, I want to leave something good behind that lasts and people remember me. I want to teach songs for mothers to sing to their babies, to the fitra in the child. For the song is the child’s jadhba and he will love peace forever more and there will be no more war. This is what I must do”
Whoever witnesses without ceasing what he was created for, in both this world and the next, is the Perfect Servant, the intended goal of the cosmos, the deputy of the whole cosmos. Ibn Arabi
George's selection of 66 Phlogs is available in print from People's Press.
