Rumi Tuesday: A Gift of Love

By Thy Grace by Snatam Kaur

Allah, Jehovah, Rama, SatNam

Names of God

Allah

Jehovah

Rama

SatNam

Waheguru

Ganesh

Saraswati

Elohim

Ahura Mazda

Great Spirit

 The Loving

Ar-Rahman

The Friend

The Truth

The One

The All

Ma

Alla

The Most Beautiful Names belong to God.

Quran 7:180

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It is said that Allah has 3,000 Names.  1,000 of them are known only to the angels.  1,000 are known only by the Prophets.   300 are found in the Torah, 300 in the Psalms, 300 in the Gospels and 99 in the Quran.  The sum of these names is 2,999.  There is one name that is hidden by God, the Ism Allah Al Azam.

Love Poem by Irving Karchmar

Love Poem

Gladly then did the world arise
By that one mighty word of power… Love!
From any other word quite apart
It rejoices in the willing heart
And binds the planets to their skies
And shines in You the brighter to my eyes

Night, come bring the dippers and Orion’s belt
To gird the firmament and bind us to His boundless will
That my heart, which has never felt such sentiment
May feel it then the deeper still

Give it not to chance then, nor say instead ’twas fate
That we have met in time who might have met too late
In the understanding of two hearts that may for earlier years amend
As our time flows like a river, unfelt til journeys end

– Irving Karchmar, 1986

Master of the Jinn, a novel by Irving Karchmar. 
Irving is a Sufi from the Nimatullahi Sufi Order
 His blog is Darvish.