The saint was able to disappear from sight, to become completely invisible, and to practice buruz, exteriorization. According to legend, Rumi attended seventeen parties at one time and wrote a poem at each one! The saint was capable of coming to the aid of his disciples wherever they were through the faculty of tayy al-makan, of being beyond spatial restriction, which is often attested to in hagiography.
March 9, 2007
Bangladesh to boot Burmese refugees from camp
March 8, 2007 About 6000 Burmese refugees living in makeshift camps in Bangladeshs Coxs Bazaar district have been ordered by the government to move, the United Nations office of the High Commissioner for Refugees said yesterday.
According to UNHCR, the unofficial refugee camps along the Naff River in Teknaf are set to be demolished as part of an attempt by Bangladeshs interim government to crackdown on illegal housing.
Pia Prytz Phiri, UNHCRs representative in Bangladesh yesterday condemned the government for ordering the refugees to move without any advanced warning.
We understand why the government doesn’t want them living there, but to move them without having prepared any solution in advance is not very humane, Pia Prytz Phiri said in a statement.
These people are of concern to us and we want to help them . . . it is hard to imagine human beings living in much more deplorable conditions than those in Teknaf, she said.
UNHCR said it had called for the Bangladesh governments cooperation in searches for new homes for the refugees, many of which are Rohingyas from Burmas Arakan State. The organisation said it had consistently been prevented by the authorities from helping the refugees.
Since the camps were formed in 2004, residents have faced constant pressure from the government to move.
We are under instructions to evacuate from this place, Noor Aysha, 25-year-old refugee was quoted by UNHCR as saying.
They are already doing evacuations [from another section of the camp] and of course we are worried. We don’t know where to go, she said.
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NYC cabbies from Bangladesh
Taking a look at where New York City’s 43,402 taxicab drivers are from: about 2,300 are American.
The top five countries of origin for NYC cabbies:
1. Bangladesh
2. Pakistan
3. India
4. Haiti
5. United States
Although there are currently only 13,000 yellow cabs in NYC, one driver said that many ex-cabbies keep their taxi licenses active as a back-up plan in case their current jobs don’t work out.
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March 8, 2007
Mystical Awareness
Revelations of colored lights occur to the initiate during his spiritual training: there are dots and spots and circles; the soul passes through periods of black color and of black and red spots until the appearance of the green color indicates that divine grace is near–green has always been considered the highest and heavenly color.
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March 7, 2007
Sufi note
Letters written with ink do not really exist qua letters. For the letters are but various forms to which meanings have been assigned through convention. What really and concretely exists is nothing but the ink. The existence of the letters is in truth no other than the existence of the ink which is the sole, unique reality that unfolds itself in many forms of self-modification. One has to cultivate, first of all, the eye to see the selfsame reality of ink in all letters, and then to see the letters as so many intrinsic modifications of the ink.
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