Labib Mahfuj Chisty
Every year when the moon of Muharram rises in the sky, in the depths of Ashiq’s existence, the boundary of an eternal mystery awakens, the cosmic station of love and self-sacrifice, the eternal meeting point of death and life. An eternal sigh flowing in the chest, which is resounding across the boundaries of creation as a harmony of eternity, that sigh finds form! In the form of Karbala, in the form of the Euphrates. That divine consciousness, painted in the bright red color of fresh blood, takes form.
The original consciousness, before creation, had announced the decree of self-revelation from its own treasury – “I want to be revealed from the hidden treasury.” That day, a divine feeling took form, whose name is Ishq, love. We see the flow of this cosmic love as time passes. In the path of Noah, in the fire of Abraham, in the trumpet of Moses, in the cry of Jesus – that song of triumph of love resounds again and again. The ultimate manifestation of that love, the cosmic mystery, is in Karbala, on the banks of the Euphrates, on the banks of the river of tears of every human being who has passed, who has been initiated into the Husayni mantra.
Husayn was not defeated in Karbala, in Karbala the song of triumph of divine love resounds in its own glory. Where ordinary eyes have seen fresh blood, the gaze of Aref has found the fountain of eternal light. Where people have seen death, ascetics have seen union, people have seen separation and Sufis have found eternal wasal there.
“Ittesal betakif bekiyya hastarbinnas,
Raba Rabash jaane nas”
When man is enlightened by the light of Muhammad, then the walls of egoism suppressed throughout the ages break down, and the triumphant journey of religion begins in the depths of the human heart. Hussain’s caravan. The saimoom of the desert-heart becomes the direction of the path, each stroke of which carries the pitiful breath of the Ahl al-Bayt. This journey is of love, great death, and self-sacrifice. This journey is of Karbala!
The river of knowledge, love, and enlightenment is the Euphrates. The river of devotion, faith, and love is the Euphrates. At whose source Karbala is built. Karbala – the crossroads of love, the painful altar of love.
The cry of Karbala is therefore an infallible call to drink the hemlock of truth against the egoistic Yazid. The call to give the thirsty, thirsty truth the coolness of diamond powder, the embrace of the ephod of the stone in the young voice!
The stream of light in the heart of Hussain inspires the lover to be enlightened by the light of Muhammad. The soul brings the lesson of plundering the dirty throne of Yazid in dust through the great death. The eternal way to keep the fountain of infinite creation going is established in Karbala, the heart of the lover in Karbala. Hal min nusurin yansuruna is not a cry, it is the victory of self-unveiling, Bhairavi. Alam tasmao, alaicha fi muslimun is not a regret, it is the culmination of building a lover.
Karbala is the divine land, Muhammad SAW. Where the body of Hussain is immersed, where the immense glory of the Holy Five blossoms in the desert-place, where the stream of light floods the ten directions, where the religion is issued, Muhammad in the religion. Karbala is that eternal time, the Euphrates is that eternal basin, where the entire creation bows down in prostration, in great union, in prayer. Karbala is the land of prostration, Karbala is the altar of offering, Karbala is the foundation of great love.
Karbala is the place of ultimate love, where the prostration of the beloved is accepted.
Author – Labib Mahfuj Chisty
Editor – Apon Khobor
Director – Apon Foundation