Falling Into The Ocean – Abdur Rahman’s Corner

Peace, one and all…

In his Maqalat, beloved Hz. Shams-i Tabriz says:

When he falls into the ocean, if he moves his hands and feet, the ocean will break him, even if he%s a lion—unless he makes himself dead. The custom of the ocean is that, as long as someone is alive, it swallows him down until he is immersed and dies. When he is immersed and dies, it picks him up and becomes his carrier. Now, make yourself dead from the first, and go forth happily on top of the water.

If someone wants to look at a dead man walking on earth, let him look at Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. He grew up from the dark dustbin, and he resides in the company of subtle, spirit-increasing water.

That ocean is one of Gods servants.

After all, if all of this hasn’t happened to you, some of it has happened, and some of it has happened to other companions. If at this time it has not happened, it will happen in the future

When the water passes the mouth and nose and head, then he is secure. As long as mouth and nose are above the water, he still goes by himself and lives through himself. When he is completely 1mmersed in the water and his mouth and nose go down into the water, then they say that he is dead. Others say that he has come to life. Both speak the truth. That borrowed life has gone, and the abiding, subsistent life has come

Rumi And Me, 131-132