You, my dear child. The child of nine or ten years of age, That you were nothing, you were dust, you turned into food, Next eighty or ninety years, you will change into an old child, You will turn into nothing, you will turn into dust, You will circulate, Like a circle, Without aim, without meaning, hollow: Once again, from the bottom, you will arrive to the initial point, Like zero, When you live for yourself, When you wish to be only for your "own self", To be alone, When you wish to be only with zeros, Your life, like a curve line, will cycle on yourself, Like zero, Again, from the bottom you will arrive, to the initial point, You will remain, you will stink, Like a pool, You will be confined, like a circle, Like "zero". But if you sit before "1",..............? If you wish to be only for "1", and release yourself from futility and loneliness, and be a companion of "1",..........? You must live for others, Your life, is like a horizontal line, and will move ahead, Like a road, Like a stream, When you depart from "Yourself", ...from the bottom, you will arrive to a habitable place, like a road, from the bottom, you will spill into the sea, like a stream, But if you sit before "1", And if you wish to exist only for "1", And come out of futility and loneliness, And be a companion of "1", You must die for "others", Your life, will ascend, like a vertical line, Like a wave, Like a storm, Like a high and proud peak, Among the hills, Like a cypress, Among the moscoids- which grow in the face of sun, Which stretch towards the sky- Like a"Great Man", like a "Martyr", An "Imam", Among the wolves, among the foxes, among the mice, which "rise up", which "stand", ...rise, stand, among the zeros, Like "1". Yes, Only "1" is a figure, It is the only unit figure, The number of stars, the universes, The earths and the heavens, The number of all the things in universe, "1", In front of it- till eternity- Zeros. There is "1". There is no "1", Except God, There is nothing, There is nobody, One, In front of It, Till Eternity, Zeros. - Dr. Ali Shariati
Posted on: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 22:55:57 +0000
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