Reclaim Your Heart

D
IE
 B
EFORE
 Y
OUR
 D
EATH
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.

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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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