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Life's trumpet
makes no sound when played
Sounds are
sensed by everyone; even those who do not apparently have the capacity to hear.
Whatever we say is recorded. As per Allah's law, wavelengths of sound continue
to travel infinitely. It is not yet known as to where do the sounds come from and
why do they continue to travel?
The waves
of sounds; their ebb and flow constitute a complete science.
Like other
things, flute too produces sounds of wail and cry.
Listen, to
flute! Think, what it is saying!
Flute is
wailing and weeping at its separation from its community. It goes around crying
and lamenting in pains of separation; it needs a medium, a heart that is filled
with pain too, so that this medium could help it amplify pain it is making and let
everyone know of it.
Maulana Rum
beautifully uses the symbol of flute to express the pain of severance and parting.
The sound
of flute as it is heard is just a reflection of inner sound,
This sound
comes from the depth of heart,
Whose sound
is this?
Sound of
inner conscious or the sound of the beloved,
The sound
of separation or the sound of the desire to unite with the beloved, the sound is
desiring to see the beloved
Maulana Rum
says:
Man is perception;
the rest is skin
Perception
is the perception of God.
This is also
the message of Allah's friends.
Flute was
residing with its family in a verdant forest under blue skies with colourful flowers
on land, planted rows after rows and the air of laden with scent and perfumes of
flowers and musk.
During
the day, birds sang songs, broad eyed deer
hopped around on the land bedecked with shimmering
white and blue streams, rivers and seas. Soft
breeze would induce deep sleep and Milky Way would adorn blue skies.
Flute
is saying that once it was happily relaxing with its family a man with a
hideous countenance came, separated it from them and enslaved it. That man
carved holes in its body with a sharp tool. He didn't stop there but damaged
its face and made it look like a snake hood.
Flute
is telling its story, the story of a pained soul removed from its family. It
doesn't even know its real homeland and where have its family and tribe
disappeared.
The
pitiless man wounded its body. When he pains it by blowing wind through its
holes. flute wails, weeps and remembers its family.
It
wonders why wouldn't one wail, weep and cry if it is severed from its family
and tribe.
The
flutist blows wind in its body to impress the pained hearts. The flute thanks
God for giving man also the pains of separation, removal and severance. He also
suffers from the misery that pains flute's heart and torments its family.
Man
is not embarrassed for what it did to the flute. But the flute sees that hurt
and agony caused by separation (from his loved one) keeps its tormentor
restless and agitated too. This doesn't alleviate flute's pain yet it knows
that the heart of tormentor is also aching.
Allah
Hafiz
