A Homily By Dervish Baba

O Son of Adam! Did you really believe that a Day of Satisfaction would come? And what if it did? What would you do then?

Last season's fruit is eaten/And the fullfed beast shall kick the empty pail.

~ T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding.

O Son of Adam! Longing is your lot and your life. Longing is be-longing; it is be-ing itself.

But perhaps this is something only poets understand.

(In Arabic, the language of prayer, sha'ara is to understand something intuitively; shi'r is poetry).