50. Moornie, Punjabi MC - Ya Muhaimin (UK/India)

50. Moornie, Punjabi MC - Ya Muhaimin (UK/India) 

After a very long time I stumbled across this Punjabi bhangra song.  It's the first song in years' that's had me dancing around my dining room.  It made me curious and I wondered if I could write about this song using the 99 Names.  To much to my delight the name below stood out.  For a long time as a woman I have felt vulnerable when it came to my feminity (mainly physical body).  Having been in a culture were women need to cover up and its a sin to beautify ourselves in public.  Yet all our Punjabi lyrics are always about how the lady is making herself beautiful either by wearing khajol or bangels etc.  For a while I lost the ability to appreciate these songs.  Id worry about (like in the video below) men stareing at me with a “dirty eye”.  Now that I'm older its still something that makes me conscious of how I dress and look as to not to attract unwanted attention.  The meaning of the name below brings me much comfort and understanding.  I wish I knew of this wisdom earlier, id worry less and enjoy life more.     

Buy the new single 'Moorni' from iTunes - http://bit.ly/dVAJQe Taken from the new Panjabi MC album - The RAJ http://www.panjabi-mc.com http://www.facebook.com/panjabimc1 http://twitter.com/panjabimc1

According to my source the 7th name Al-Muhaimin is the divine quality that preserves the essence of a thing from corruption through all the vicissitudes of time.  The eternal in the thing, the purity of what it is in reality, is protected from being harmed by any temporal cause.  In a more general sense, what is transient passes away and therefore nevertruly had existence.

There is a saying from the Quran and other spiritual texts which says "God is beautiful and he loves beauty".  I have loved this saying.  I love it even more now I am gaining a deeper understanding.  Love is beauty, anything that has love cannot be ugly.  If God is love then we see him in what we find beautiful.  So its only natural that humans will want to look and adore what they find beautiful.  Through this connection with beauty there is the opportunity presented to learn more deeply about what we are feeling and reaching for.  Maybe next time I find myself in these kinds of situations I maybe able to guide and teach.  Almost we remain childlike without such deeper understanding of life.  As Sadhguru says "be like a mother to the whole world".  Be inclusive, have the ability to respond which is different to feeling responsible, open yourself to choices rather than reactions.  Remain the deep, depths of the sea, calm, still, peaceful and not the crashing of the waves in rage and turmoil.   Ive been quick to judge the men that stare.  They dont even know themselves what they are doing?  Maybe next time I have an encounter I can let it just slide off me or try to remind the person its not me that that they are seeking but an understanding of their emotion. 

49 Nazia & Zoheb Hussain, Al Basit (The Expander), Pakistan

49 Nazia & Zoheb Hussain, Al Basit (The Expander), Pakistan

3rd April marks Nazia Hussain Birthday.  I want to remember Nazia and her brother Zoheb Hussain.  I cannot describe what their music did for us but those who know can easily well up.  

The 21st Name Al Basit reminds me of them.  According to my source Al Basit is the only one who expands, the only source of expansion.  Often there is great joy in the expansion of Al Basit, and its meaning is connected with ecstasy.  There are many states of its expansiveness.  Al Basit brings a kind of ecstasy in eating, drinking and smelling, in the music, in great natural beauty and in grander and gander ways until your joy uplifts all beings.  You become absent to yourself and find God’s presence completely within.

It feels quite hopeless to pick any particular song of theirs as it was their sound and the feeling it brought.  Growing up in the 80's in the UK their music was a bridge to both cultures I belonged to UK and Pakistan.   I deeply miss them.  To this day I recognise how their music has imprinted a permanent mark of inspiration on me.  Im still watching all the videos on youtube and I cannot decide which ones to include here....sorry.... I will keep trying to decide but for now I'm having my own 80's disco. 

Okay check out the album below  - back to back of Nazia and Zoheb, pure bliss x.

Nazia Hassan was a Pakistani pop singer. Her song, "Aap Jaisa Koi", from the Indian film Qurbani (1980) made her a famous in Pakistan and all of South Asia in the 1980s, where she is admired and loved even today, years after her death.

48 Bag lady, Erica Badoo - Ya Jami (The Gatherer)

48 Bag lady, Erica Badoo- Ya Jami (The Gatherer) 

Dedicated to all my ladies - I couldn't find a more perfect song to explore the meaning of The Gatherer. 

Music video by Erykah Badu performing Bag Lady. (C) 2000 Motown Records

According to my source the 86th name is the gatherer.  It means to come back together, to bring all the parts into a whole.  Al Jami is to return home, to return to the real self.  It is a constant process of becoming reconnected with wholeness.  It is sometimes called the grand synthesis, the joining of all joining.  I love reading about the nafs (ego) begin to merge with the ruh or soul and its an ecstatic union.  Then varying aspects of the higher self or soul manifestt into the lower self or nafs and reintergrate. 

Lyrics

Bag lady you gone hurt your back
Dragging all them bags like that
I guess nobody ever told you
All you must hold onto, is you, is you, is you

One day all them bags gon' get in your way
One day all them bags gon' get in your way
I said one day all them bags gon' get in your way
One day all them bags gon' get in your way, so pack light,
Pack light, mm, pack light, pack light, oh ooh

Bag lady you gon' miss your bus
You can't hurry up, 'cause you got too much stuff
When they see you coming, niggas take off running
From you it's true, oh yes they do

One day he gon' say you crowding my space
One day he gon' say you crowding my space
I said one day he gon' say you crowding my space
One day he gon' say you crowding my space so, pack light
Pack light, mm, pack light, pack light, ooh ooh

Girl I know, sometimes it's hard and we can't let go
Oh when someone hurts you oh so bad inside
You can't deny it you can't stop crying
So oh, oh, oh, if you start breathin' babe
You won't believe it, it feels so much better, so much better baby
Bag lady, let it go let it go let it go let it go oh
Girl you don't need it
Bet ya love could make it better
Bet ya love can make it better
Bet ya love can make it better, need someone to love you right
Bet ya love can make it better
Bet ya love I bet ya love I bet ya
Bet ya love can make it better, baby baby
Bet ya love can make it better
Bet ya love can make it better, hey hey
Bet ya love can make it better,
I bet ya love I bet you love
Bet ya love can make it better
I bet ya love I bet you love, oh oh oh (Bet ya love can make it better)
Bet ya love can make it better (oh oh oh oh)
Bet ya love can make it better
Bag lady, let it go let it go let it go let it go oh
Yeah you don't need it

https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tqwujx7pjdd3hzuoffdqkkzx6wq?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics

47 Madonna & Deepak Chopra - Poems of Rumi -Al Muqtadir (The Powerful)

47 Madonna & Deepak Chopra - Poems of Rumi -Al Muqtadir (The Powerful)

Deepak Chopra & Madonna - Poems of Rumi - Love Drunk .No 2 - Bittersweet

Album A Gift of Love - Music Inspired by the Love Poems of Rumi

Lyrics
In my hallucination
I saw my beloved's flower garden
In my vertigo, in my dizziness
In my drunken haze
Whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel

I saw myself as the source of existence
I was there in the beginning
And I was the spirit of love
Now I am sober
There is only the hangover
And the memory of love
And only the sorrow

I yearn for happiness
I ask for help
I want mercy
And my love says: 

Look at me and hear me
Because I am here
Just for that

I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl

I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you

Oh sweet bitterness
I will soothe you and heal you
I will bring you roses
I, too, have been covered with thorns...

According to my source the 69th name is Al-Muqtadir (The Powerful) is the one who places you on a particular path to God and enables you to firmly put your feet on that path, and keep going on that path, step by step.  It brings the ability to actualise the divine purpose in your life.  The power that is guiding you has put you in this very specific situation, here and now.  There are no mistakes, and nothing is ever wasted or lost. Each soul is unique, with a unique purpose in life.  That is the meaning of  Al-Muqtadir.  To realise its meaning, each person needs to recognise al Qadir ( 68th Name) and lovingly engage his or her will to fulfill it.  The lover thus makes use of whatever power the beloved has granted and uses that power in the wise and beautifully proportioned way present in its very nature.

Im struggling to add anything more than to pair the name and the song and to just contemplate the depth of the two.  

45/46 Tina Turner - Al Mumin (The Granter of Security) & Al Qayyum (The Self Existing)

45/46 Tina Turner - Al Mumin (The Granter of Security) & Al Qayyum (The Self Existing)

http://tinaturnerblog.com Get 'Children Beyond' featuring 'Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu' here: http://goo.gl/vfrDek More about the practice of the mantra here: http://wp.me/p1faLh-1e0 Video clip for the Hindu Mantra recorded by Tina Turner, Regula Curti & Dechen Shak-Dagsay for the album 'Children Beyond' released in 2011 and available on Amazon (See links at the bottom).

I am trying to inspire my son to learn meditation and wanted to show him other children doing meditation.  I found this by Tina Turner ages ago and it really impressed me.   In fact there is quite a bit of music she has done around meditation - its kind of opposite to her rock and roll days but so important to have an example of the two opposites and achieving balance.  

http://tinaturnerblog.com Get 'Beyond' Featuring Tina Turner chanting 'Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo' here: http://amzn.to/2ejZ08u Out from the first 'Beyond' cd, Tina Turner chanting the buddhist mantra Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

March is always a month championing women with Mothers Day and International Women's Day.  So I think its quite apt to focus on Tina today.   I don't know much about Tina Turner other than seeing “Whats love got to do with it” when I was younger and that was the first time I learnt about how she got into Buddhism.  To this day she has practised that and even to the point where she is sharing music inspired by her faith.  Its not something I have heard of before or even find easy to listen to.  But in doing so I can recognise two names - Al Mumin the 6th Name and the 63rd Name Al Qayyum.  The first is because she demonstrates real faith after all these years it appears even committed and stronger than ever. The latter name because the chanting and focus reminds me of the one who remains through all the permutations of time and pace - the chants echo and remain when I focus on them.  I can leave the room and come back and can still feel their vibration - she makes them even more powerful I feel. The sound of the chants, dominant, strong, firm, permanent, solid, never-ending.   

This is what my source says about these names:

Al Mumin is the one who offers to us a real faith and trust that is free of all fear, craft and deceit.  From its root we learn that Al mumin is a divine gift that allows us to feel safety, confidence and security in our harts.  It allows human beings to have trust in God alone and not to be than in by secondary causes, or what appears on the surface to be the causes of conditions.  

Al Qayyum is the only one who remains through all he permutations on time and pace.  It is an existence beyond being or appearance, form, or continuance of form.  It manifests in everything, down to the very heart of every being.  It is eternal time and omnipresence.  It is a continuous unending activity that bestows essence or Kun, to everything else.  The very fact that anything exists, including the very existence of being itself, is because of the nature of Al Qayyum, which transcends the passage of time. 

44 Nimma Nimma, Shani Arshad - Al Halim, (The Forbearing), Pakistan

44  Nimma Nimma, Shani Arshad -  Al Halim, (The Forbearing), Pakistan

According to my source the 32nd name Al Halim is tender love, gentle and kind love.  The tenderness of Al Halim is physical, emotional and nurturing.  God manifest this quality anywhere and everywhere, without exception.  One root meaning is the shyness and gentleness that is found in a young girl.  There is a kind of retiring or monastic quality to Al Halim.  It offers softness and kindness that makes for perseverance.  Al Halim is the place where the dreams can arise, which are really visions.  Al Halim offers an avenue for creative imagination, even as God is said to lovingly dream the universe.   Al Halim is mildness of manner this is an antidote for anger and impatience.  It expands with immense openness.    

Nimma Nimma, Shani Arshad, Season Finale, Coke Studio Season 9 Lyrics by Sabir Zafar Music Directed by Shani Arshad Produced by Strings An affectionate ode to a mother, 'Nimma Nimma' explores the longing of love and nostalgia capturing a sea of emotions through the duration of the track.

For days now the song below has been playing inside me.  The qualities I read above somehow relate to the qualities of the song even though its a man singing and the content is very delicate and deeply moving.  I just had it playing in the background then as always when a song gets my attention I have to look deeper into it.  I believe its a song about longing for mum.  Something that made me flood my room with tears and my mum is still around.  It made me appreciate her and make internal promises that I will soak every moment I have with her.  

This is the write up and lyrics/translation below.  What other songs remind you of Al Halim? 

An affectionate ode to a mother, ‘Nimma Nimma’ explores the longing of love and nostalgia capturing a sea of emotions through the duration of the track. Composed and performed by music director, Shani Arshad – the beautiful and subtle songwriting by Sabir Zafar elevates the bar even further. An irresistible melody, underlining the eastern sensibilities with the string section and soft drums to accentuate the soundscape – Shani’s warm and soulful vocals are at once honest and heartrending. The interval featuring Sajid’s flute solo is particularly special as it translates the emotions of the singer and the lyrics into the piece that resonates through this deeply moving and heartfelt tribute.

Nimma Nimma Lyrics - Coke Studio

Khaali jhoola jhool raha hai

Bachpan saara bhool raha hai (x2)

Lori mujh ko kaun sunaaye ni

Khali jhoola jhool raha hai

Bachpan sara bhool raha hai

Lori mujhko kaun sunaye ni

Nimma nimma dukh maayen ni (x2)

The empty cradle is swinging softly

My childhood memories are fading away

Who will now sing me a lullaby?

Tere bina to chain na aye maa

Kya tujhe meri yaad na aye maa

Thapki de ke kaun sulaaye ni

Nimma nimma dukh maaen ni (x2)

A wistful sorrow lingers, o mother

I can’t gain solace without you, mother

Do you never think of me, mother?

Whose hands will now pat me tenderly to sleep?

A wistful sorrow lingers, o mother

Prem patang bhi chhoot chali thi

Saans ki dor bhi toot chali thi (x2)

Charkhah kaatne wali budhiya

Mujhse jaise rooth chali thi

The kite of love slipped from my hands

The kite-string of life also got snapped

The old woman from childhood stories

Who used to spin the wheel

It is as if she became displeased and abandoned me

Soona soona aangan laaga

Ruk gaya charkhah toota dhaaga

Main hoon tanha raat daraaye ni

Nimma nimma dukh maayen ni (x2)

The courtyard of my home appeared desolate

The wheel stopped spinning

The thread snapped I am left all alone now

And the dark night scares me

A wistful sorrow lingers, o mother

God men teri kya yih taare

Aankh michauli khelen saare (x2)

Sunte hain kya yeh bhi lori

Kya lagte hain tujh ko pyaare

Tujhse lipat ke sote hain kya

Chupke chupke rote hain kya

In ko bhi kya neend na aaye ni

Nimma nimma dukh maaen ni (x2)

The stars in the sky sheltering in your lap

All of them playing blind man’s buff

Do they now hear your lullaby?

Do they now have your love and affection?

Do they now sleep in your arms?

Do they cry silent, secret tears?

Do they also find it hard to sleep?

A wistful sorrow lingers, o mother

Tere bina to chain na aaye maan

Kya tujhe meri yaad nah aaye maan

Thapki de ke kaun sulaaye ni

Nimma nimma dukh maayein ni (x

Read Lyrics: http://www.lyricsted.com/nimma-nimma-coke-studio/#ixzz4bsBgEmwR

43 Eye of the Tiger - Al Qahhar (The Subduer) USA

43 Eye of the Tiger - Al Qahhar (The Subduer) USA

Well......The Title Says It All.....Its A Rocky Music Video Music:Surviover:Eye Of The Tiger

Continuing on from last week on the theme of movies, one of my old time favourite movies is Rocky.   The song "Eye of the Tiger" immediately came to mind when I read about the name Al Qahhar.  Sometimes I wonder whether I can ever related to any of the 99 names I look at.  It always amazes me how the right song always shows itself.  For me the music helps me understand these concepts within these names.  As always I seek a deeper meaning and understanding and not one that just sits on the surface.  Whilst watching the movie I can feel the intensity of the name below being demonstrated by the character Rocky and in Rocky 4 there is montage to this song which I love, love, love.  In my own life my current focus or battle is around my sons education.  The education system of my country as with any system presents itself as the only and dominant idea.  My journey has been to reduce their ideas and grow my own. To hold my worldview intensily and require everyone else to meet me where I am.  I will not be reduced by the system to think small or in a limited way about my child's education.  

How are you winning in your battles?

According to my source the 15th Name Al Qahhar is a strength that overwhelms all else.  A physical-plane meaning from the same root is the searing effect that fire has on a a piece of meat, which gets the juices flowing.  The fire is the love and the meat is the heart.  Al Qahhar is continuous and repetitive.  it brings the passionate fire of longing.  Its presence means that regardless of outward circumstances you still long for God in your heart and nothing will put out this flame.   Al Qahhar’s reality causes the personality shell to dissolve.  The process may feel like hell on earth, the al qahhar overwhelms all attachment.  It consumes othernesss, leaving only Allah.  It defeats your lower self but doesnt break you in doing so.  It shows you that in truth you are undefeatable.  It transforms what you are from raw meant to cooked meat because of its instensity

Eye of the tiger by survivor

So tell me about your favourite soundtracks and what they mean to you personally.  

42 I Only Have Eyes For You - Al Aliyy (The Most High)

42 I Only Have Eyes For You - Al Aliyy (The Most High)

This is one of my favourite romantic songs ever.  I love the total focus that this song speaks about.  Before I saw this level in the song I heard it as a backing score for a movie called "A Bronx Tale".  It really created a romantic setting between the two characters (a latino and a black girl) with racism being their back drop.   I was just soaking up the non-discriminatory love they where showing.  Anyway I knew the song was elevating my experience and so I have found so many different versions.  Here are some of my favourites.  

Enjoy this marvelous song love is without frontiers, no skin colour.........

I suppose now-a-days this song reminds me of the total focus I would love to have about myself rather than a romantic relationship.  The idea of knowing my Self and being able to give all I need to myself.  Knowing I am self sufficient in all that I may require.  Romancing myself!   I love the version below. 

Written By Harry Warren, Al Dubin, this great love songw as number one for Artie in the U.K. I Can You See Why.

According to my source the 36th name Al-Aliyy is the exalted, beyond form.  It is purely transcendent.  Al Aliyy means absolutely above totally beyond.  Beyond it there is nothing.  It is a vision of the highest, like the vision of the heart throne of God suspended above oceans of infinite mercy.  Al Aliyy is emanating transcendence just as the sun must reach its zenith in the sky to shine its light and fully illuminate each and everything.  Al Aliaa is fully exalted and it manifests that transcendence in its immanence.

From 1959 Solid Gold Soul

Which one do you like?  Do you get where I am coming?  I fear about being judged with what I am saying here and spoiling a romantic song.  Anyway over to you.....

41 PM Dawn Patient Eyes - Al Sabur, (The Patient One)

41 PM Dawn Patient Eyes - Al Sabur, (The Patient One) 

I wonder if anyone remembers these guys?  Im so curious about them, I found their music beautiful and so different lyrically to anything I was listening to at the time.  Anyway, this song came immediately to mine when I saw the word patient.  If you get a chance check out this blog post,  it talks about this band and song but its quite reactionary.  I suppose I'm used to hearing songs that have different layers of meaning and I don't see it as being sinister.  You can take any song to be about romantic love or about anything it reminds you of which I do in this blog all the time.  Id love to know what you think.  

From: The Bliss Album...? (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence) "1993"

According to my source the 99th Name As Sabur is the divine power that will always see things through to the end.  At the human level, it means to maintain inner equanimity though all trials and circumstances and to persevere to the end of the test.  A physical-plane variation of its root means to endure and to stop complaining.  As Subur embodies development of complete inner capacity.  It is a great container that enables a spiritual student to endure the long journey of the path and actualise every detail and technique of the teachings.  It is a powerful solidarity that allows you to stand firm.  The divine manifestation of As Sabur as a quality of God empathises that God doesnt act hastily but forgives or defers judgement.  

Lyrics

Whatever it is I do, I try to think about you.
I have a love for you that nothing hides.
Whatever it is I do, I'm always thinking of you.
I hope you look at me through patient eyes.
I've become amused.
I've become blind.
I've become what I know not breathes.
You seem illiterate to all my emotions.
I stand corrected, how well you read.
You speak the truth, you speak the me.
You fell the love I have yet to find.
I know it's there, I know it's there.
But I let the sandcastles kill my mind.
Pathetic me, I long to be you.
They think I'm close but i stand so fat.
The turbulent one sheds a turbulent tear.
I'm Mr. Love only 'cause they starve.
Oil and water, lust and sympathy.
I'll life and death my way through the sun.
Where originates all the pain that leaves.
My memory a traumatic sponge and sings to you.
Well define my love and attitude.
Open up your mind and it will sing to you.
You can always tell.
But I know remorse so well.
I left reality early due to the lack of love... reason.

Whatever I do, I try to think about you.
I seek the sympathy and I can't lie.
Whatever it is I do, I'm always thinking of you.
I hope you look at me through patient eyes.

The channel, a professional liar.
How I long to contradict those vibes.
Joni help me, I think I'm falling.
It's not the love and I quest the why.
I don't know, If I'm right, I'm right.
But if I'm wrong then show me I'm wrong.
The fear of pity is always awake.
But infinite sympathy completely gone.
It's the windows, the doors, the passageway to the truth.
Oh my god, it echoes the mind.
In total recall as wild as the deuce.
It's so deceiving is the clouded heart.
So superficial is the open wound.
I caress the infinite light.
That even at night. Overshadows the moon and sings to you.
Well, define my love, that lives with you.
Even when I die, it will still sing to you.
You can always tell if remorse has done you well...
The misconstrued my answers due to the
Lack of love...reason.

Whatever I do, I try to think about you.
I seek the sympathy and I can't lie.
Whatever it is I do, I'm always thinking of you.
I hope you look at me through patient eyes.

40 Lauren Hill - Al Muntaqim (The Avenger)

40 Lauren Hill - Al Muntaqim (The Avenger) 

According to my source the 80th name Al Muntaqim is a powerful balancing force that is completely reliable and uncompromising.  It is the embodiment of the principle of reciprocity, of the holy wheel of karma as described in the Dharma traditions. Whatever you put into the universe comes back to you.  The force of Al Muntaqim equalises and seeks to create harmony in the universe in ways that may appear tragic and violent from the human perspective.

This name reminds me of a time when I felt quite a bit of injustice.  I remember leaving a training programme in Paris and whilst I waited at the airport I was listening to Lauren Hill's Unplugged MTV.  I found the lyrics quite soothing towards the flames of injustice I had fuming inside me.   I find this name quite comforting.  More recently I've tired not to watch any of the political news but something has caught my attention.  With Trump's ban of travellers from 7 muslim countries to the USA been overuled by USA judges its good to see this in action.  Harmony is a greater force than anyone persons ideas or actions. 

I love the whole MTV Unplugged session by Lauren.  It makes up for when I spent £20 to go and see her and she came late and looked like a poodle and sang songs none of us ever heard of.  We did leave in the end as we were too disappointed. Maybe this again is another act of Al Muntaqim in action lol! 

Lauryn Hill MTV Unplugged 2.0

Lyrics "So Much Things To Say"

Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yey
Why, why, why, why, why, why, why
Why, Why, heh
They've got so much things to say right now
They've got so much things to say
They've got so much things to say right now
They've got so much things to say
I'll never forget no way, how they crucified Jesus Christ
I'll never forget no way, how they sold Marcus Garvey for rice
I'll never forget no way, how they turned their back on Paul Bogle
So don't you forget no way...
Who you are, and where you stand in the struggle
They've got so much things to say right now
They've got so much things to say
They've got so very many things, to say right now
They've got so much things to say
I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood
But spiritual wickedness in high and low places
And don't you fight me down
I'll stand firm, and give Jah all the thanks and praises
I don't expect to be justified, by these laws of men
Though the we can find me guilty, Jah will proove my innocency
Cuz when the rain falls, it don't, fall on one man's house top
Remember that
See when this rain falls, it don't, fall on one man's house top
They've got so much things to say right now
They've got so much, so much things to say
They've got, heh, so much things to say right now
They've got so, so much things to say
But let them keep talking, oh let them keep talking
Cuz non of them walking, oh non of them walking, no
And while they still talking, see I'ma be walking
I'ma be walking, so let them keep talking
Said I never forget no way, how they crucified Jesus Christ
And I, I'll never forget, how they sold Marcus Garvey for rice
Said I, never forget, how they turned their backs on Paul Bogle
So non of you, non of you forget...
Who you are, and where you stand in the struggle
Cuz when this rain, cuz when this rain, rain, rain, rain, rain falls
It don't fall on one man's house, I'm telling you the rain...
I'm telling you the rain, rain, rain, rain, rain don't fall
It don't fall... they...
They've got, they've got, so many very things to say about me
I'm telling you: lie
They, and they, and they will have so many things
They'll have so many things to say about you... to say about you
Cuz they don't know me, know me
They don't know me, oh they don't know me, oh they don't know me
Oh they don't know me well
They, they, they, they, they, they, they don't know my Father
Cuz if they did, if they did... hey ey... theeey... heh..

39 The Verve, Al Qabid (The Withholder)

39 The Verve, Al Qabid (The Withholder)

Pre-VEVO play count: 22,581,204 Music video by The Verve performing Bitter Sweet Symphony.

My whole life I always thought there was only one way to be.  Often if I wasn't in the the place or state I wanted to be in I would be brutal to myself.  I never realised the impact of my inner-voice on me in these moments.  Its amazing to reach a place where I am consistent.  My inner-voice is consistent with love and compassion no matter what I do.  You have to really train yourself to hear, feel and know the bitter sweet symphony of life - the song below is amazing in expressing this.  

According to my source the 20th name Al Qabid is the only source of all contraction and the only one who actually contracts.  At the physical level, continual contraction and expansion are seen throughout nature.  It is in the natural physical rhythm of the heart and lungs.  Contraction and expansion are also aspects of the greater sphere of heart.  Transient states, call ahwal, constantly are experienced in the wider sphere of heart, which could be called the depth of feeling. 

Al Qabid has a sober quality. Its opposite Al Basit, expansion, has the quality of ecstasy, Ya Qabid, Ya Basit, when recited as a pair provide a necessary balance for those who stubbornly cling to the pleasurable spiritual states that they have come attached to by their desire.  Equanimity comes from realising that god is operating through both these poles of experience

This song immediately came to mind.  Im sure there are others .... please share. x

Lyrics

Cause it's a bittersweet symphony this life
Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to the money then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah
No change, I can't change, I can't change, I can't change, 
but I'm here in my mold, I am here in my mold
But I'm a million different people from one day to the next
I can't change my mold, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Well I never pray, 
But tonight I'm on my knees, yeah
I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me, yeah
I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind, I feel free now
But the airwaves are clean and there's nobody singing to me now

No change, I can't change, I can't change, I can't change, 
But I'm here in my mold, I am here in my mold
And I'm a million different people from one day to the next
I can't change my mold, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Cause it's a bittersweet symphony this life
Trying to make ends meet, trying to find some money then you die
You know I can't change, I can't change, I can't change, 
But I'm here in my mold, I am here in my mold
And I'm a million different people from one day to the next
I can't change my mold, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Songwriters: Keith Richards / Mick Jagger / Richard Ashcroft

Bitter Sweet Symphony lyrics © Abkco Music, Inc

 

38 Nitin Sawney and Nicky Wells, Al Muqsit (The Equitable)

38 Nitin Sawney and Nicky Wells, Al Muqsit (The Equitable)

2008

Its been one of those days today where I have just been trying to find all Prince songs on Youtube and awe at his talents.  Along the way I was reminded of Nitin Sawney so started to watch some of his videos. (I love the above video!).   Then I just found myself being captured by Nicky Wells.  I mean she's singing classical indian lyrics.  My head just couldn't get around that and I have to admit I am jealous.  How come some people are just so gifted?  

Indian-British artist Nitin Sawhney is considered a musical pioneer for his mix of south Asian musical influences with electronica and other genres, like jazz, hip hop, and flamenco. Expect a global melting pot on KCRW when he performs for the very first time on Morning Becomes Eclectic.

According to my source the 85th Name Al Muqit is the ultimate divine cause that ensures all gifts are apportioned in a just and equitable way.  Since the way that gifts are given does not appear to be just at all, this just apportionment is the case even though we may not know it.  It does not always come to you with the knowledge that your need has been satisfied.  Allah makes each person’s lot in life a portion of subsistence and makes it little or much according to the divine purpose, which may be hidden from our view.  

I understand above to mean, ask and believe in what you ask, and it will be given.  If you ask but do not believe it will happen that stops the flow of things coming to you or the knowledge of why it is the way it is.  In my own practise I have witnessed the hidden becoming visible to my eye and my own abundance showing itself in a glimmer.  But as I get distracted from my own inner being and want what others have I loose it all.  I found the teachings of Abraham Hick's make this so clear without which the above name would be so hard for me to grasp.  I also have loved learning recently that everyone  is a genius.  According to Robert Kiyosaki (in his Rich Dad series) he discussed 12 different genius.  Everyone has at least 4.  The kolbe index has been designed to help you find what your genius is.  Something I found helpful knowing and is a tool to focus back into you.  In the meantime I can still admire Nikki and ask myself what it is exactly my inner being is calling me too. Does anyone else get what I'm saying here? 

Nadia is a song about two lovers on opposite ends of the river. The song is almost like someone calling across the river. Based on a thumri, this track is about how the river has become the enemy as it is keeping the lovers apart. Nitin's original version didn't have any bass but was electronica-heavy.

37. Royal, Malikal Mulk (Owner of Kingdom), Lorde, New Zealand

37. Royal, Malikal Mulk (Owner of Kingdom), Lorde, New Zealand

As I catch a glance of news that Trump has won the USA elections, my attempts to blocking any distractions from the outside world into my day to day consciousness failed.  Dam iPhone!  Seems like the hardest thing for us human beings is to just focus on ourselves.

I loved reading this blog I got the other day.  I kept it to share with you here. 

The wise of all ages have taught that it is knowledge of the divine Being that is life, and the only reality.

Bowl of Saki, September 29, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

If there is a kingdom of God to be found anywhere, it is within oneself. And it is, therefore, in the knowledge of self that there lies the fulfillment of life. The knowledge of self means the knowledge of one's body, the knowledge of one's mind, the knowledge of one's spirit; the knowledge of the spirit's relation to the body and the relation of the body to the spirit; the knowledge of one's wants and needs, the knowledge of one's virtues and faults; knowing what we desire and how to attain it, what to pursue and what to renounce. And when one dives deep into this, one finds before one a world of knowledge which never ends. And it is that knowledge which gives one insight into human nature and brings one to the knowledge of the whole of creation. And in the end one attains to the knowledge of the divine Being. from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/I/I_IV_12.htm

According to my source the 83rd name Malikal-mulk expresses that each and every manifestation in the universe completely depends on being held by god.  It describes permanence in the midst of change.  Things (Mulk) are always in flux - coming and going, strong and weak.  They are transient. Even though the world has this appearance, saying this name brings us the realisation that all manifestation never leaves the hands of God.  Calling this divine name quality is like reaching down into the stream of time and grasping eternal essence in its majesty.  It is king and controller.  Invocation of this quality helps you overcome the dichotomy that arises from how you may be perceived by others because from the perspective of this divine name whether you are viewed as high or as low is irrelevant.

As Lorde turned 20 this week, which I also caught a glimpse of on social media.  I thought her song Royals is one to think about and take some feel goodness from.  Are their any other songs that make you feel Royal or remind you of your majestic self? 

Download Lorde's album "Pure Heroine (Extended Edition)" featuring "Royals" now: iTunes: http://smarturl.it/PureHeroineExtended Amazon: http://smarturl.it/PureHeroineExtendAZ Music video by Lorde performing Royals. (C) 2013 Universal Music NZ Ltd.

36. Miracle, Above and Beyond Ocean Lab - Al Alim (The All Knowing), UK

36. Miracle, Above and Beyond Ocean Lab - Al Alim (The All Knowing), UK

Over the last few months Ive received amazing new ideas and input around how I see and talk to God.  The rigid ideas I was given when I was younger and that I tried to believe no longer seem viable.  I know my inner being has been seeking information about who I am and what I am doing and it has been able to seek out meaning and language that resonates and brings clarity.  The biggest change within me is the belief we are all one and equal.  Our religions, cultures and beliefs are something to go beyond as they have been established for many other reasons.  Once you know this there is a universal language and understanding of what is going on.  I came across this song whilst listing to the teachings of Abraham Hicks.  These teachings seem a long way from religious beliefs but the consistency and equality of them is just astounding.  I love the word source, another word for God/Allah.   It reminds me of Al Alim see below.

Ive managed to find two versions of this track.  The second version is a club mix see which you prefer.  Check out the artists and their work here and lyrics.  Ive added them below to help you out! 

BUY THIS ALBUM! Above & Beyond pres. OceanLab: Sirens Of The Sea [2008] 01. Just Listen 02. Sirens Of The Sea 03. If I Could Fly 04. Breaking Ties 05. Miracle 06. Come Home 07. On A Good Day 08. Ashes 09. I Am What I Am 10. Lonely Girl 11.

Don't they know that there's something going on
What they're harming with their indecision?
And who will be left standing when I'm gone?
There'll be nothing left but a vision

And it's too easy to turn a blind eye to the light
It's too easy to bow your head and pray
But there are some times
When you should try to find your voice
And this is one voice that you must find today

Are you hoping for a miracle
As the ice caps melt away?
No use hoping for a miracle
There's a price we'll have to pay

Don't they know that there's something they can do?
To be sure of tomorrow's tomorrow?
And too late is too late for me and you
No more time left for you to borrow

And it's too easy to turn a blind eye to the light
It's too easy to bow your head and pray
But there are some times
When you should try to find your voice
This is one voice that you must find today

Are you hoping for a miracle
Am I still here in your plans
No use hoping for a miracle
I am balanced in your hands

Buy/Stream: https://Anjunabeats.lnk.to/Miracle Follow A&B on Spotify: http://po.st/abspotify Tour dates: http://po.st/ablive This is the official music video for OceanLab's single "Miracle" [Above & Beyond Club Mix] which is taken from their debut album "Sirens Of The Sea". The album and single are both available now from all major retail outlets and download stores.

According to my source the 19th name Al Alim is the omniscient knowledge of God.  Its ultimate meaning is all-inclusive.  It includes inner knowledge and outer knowledge, the unseen and the seen.  Al Alim means the emanation of knowledge that reaches everything without exception.  Wondering all of its various forms Al Alim is mentioned in the Quran more that any other single attribute of Allah.   It is the word for universe in the sense of a collection of all possible worlds and it occurs in the first surah of the Quran which says that Allah is the lord of all possible universes.  At a physical level, alaamah means a water source that is under a mountain.  God is described as the knower of the essence or inwards secret of hearts.  God conciseness, taqwaa, is this ultimate secret of the heart.  True knowledge leads to a continuing relationship with wisdom that heals and discerns. 

35. Sheep, Gonjasufi - Al Muid (The Restorer of Life), USA

35. Sheep, Gonjasufi - Al Muid (The Restorer of Life), USA 

Im so so excited to tell you about Gonjasufi.  I came across his album A Sufi And A Killer and heard the track below.  It did blow my mind - in fact I felt my heart burst and for the duration of the song I was experiencing a kaleidoscope of visual excitement and joy.  It didn't happen again afterwards but I think I got a taste of what Im trying to create with Electronic Sufi Music.  The different musical styles and influences, the rawness, the lyrics it all just hit a spot for me inside and I was in heaven for a moment.  The lyrics feel prophetic alongside nostalgic sounds from bollywood come to mind. Was this all a mixture of sounds from my lifes soundtrack rolled into one??   How does it sound to you? 

Let me know if you manage to check out the album and any tracks you like.  I think the lyrics to the song Sheep below are so innocent like a child trying to make sense of the natural world.  It reminded me of Al Muid.  

According to my source the 59th name Al Muid is the one, the only one, who is capable of mercifully giving refuge to every single thing.  It returns the visible manifestation to the invisible essence.  It is the one who brings things to their ultimate end.  The Divine quality accepts each one, and everything, without exception, in its return to the source, which is Allah/God. 

Gonjasufi - Sheep - A Sufi And A Killer

You are my shepard babe

I wouldn't have it any other way

My heavenly shepherd

Shepherd babe

You're such a good shepherd

Oh heavenly shepherd

We wouldn't have it no other way

Nah nah nah nahhhhh

Instead of a lion

Cause then I wouldn't have to eat

Animals that are dying

I wish I was a sheep

Instead of a lion

Cause then I wouldn't have to eat

This meat that is dying

I wish I was

One of your sheep

Only because

I wouldn't have to kill to eat

Oh how I wish I was

One of your gentle sheep

Only made out of love

Like a bird in retreat

Nah nah nah nahhhhh

If I was a sheep

I'd have to be quick on my feet

Running away all day

From a lioness trying to eat

Some do enough to creep

One of my fellow sheep

Living so humbly

Sympathetic with harmony

Have you ever seen

Two lions wearing meat?

Eagles too quick to creep

One ends up in another's teeth

It wouldn't be this way

If they were eating leaves

Oh how I always pray

I was one of your sheep

I'm a lion babe

Feeding off the sheep that graze

Off the leaf's and blades

I wouldn't have it any other way

I'm a lion babe

See me livin in the shade

I have everyone afraid

Roamin' free so no one's safe

34. Cheikha Remitti, Ya Darr (The Aflicter), Algeria

34. Cheikha Remitti, Ya Darr (The Aflicter), Algeria 

Ive just found another epic lady.  My lucky day lol.  Ive moved onto enjoying Cafe Arabia compilation - I miss buying music from the record shops.  Its so awesome to sit and read the insert and get ready to get into the zone.  This album is subtitled Rai Roots and Mint Tea.  Its describes the setting of a cafe and I love reading “behind the bar, at a safe distance from itchy-fingered or zealous customers, is Mr Faouzi’s battered old ghetto-blaster which serenades the clientele through the day with a steady stream of high-pitched, pumping rai music.”   As I just chose what I enjoyed listening too from the album and began to search for english translations I came across another artist on the album.  

When I asked a friend about Cheikha Remitti who has Algerian heritage I didn't get a warm reply.  Researching her wikipedia page the following shed some light.  

At age 15, she joined a troupe of traditional Algerian musicians and learnt to sing and dance. In 1943 she moved to the rural town of Relizane and began writing her own songs. Her songs described the tough life endured by the Algerian poor, focusing on everyday struggle of living, pleasures of sex, love, alcohol and friendship and the realities of war.  Traditionally, songs of lust had been sung privately by Algerian women at rural wedding celebrations but were considered crude and unfit to be heard in polite society. Rimitti was one of the first to sing them in public and did so in the earthy language of the street, using a rich blend of slang and patois. She eventually composed more than 200 songs but remained illiterate all her life.

Four years later she went on a hadj to Mecca, after which her lifestyle (though not her songs or subject matter) changed. She stopped smoking and drinking, but continued her singing and dancing, and by the mid-80s, when Rai was becoming established as the rousing dance music of angry young Algerians, Rimitti was being hailed as la mamie du Rai, the grandmother of the style. Her deep singing voice, in the male tenor range, was recognizable throughout the Algerian community on both sides of the Mediterranean.

She died at the age of 83, in Paris.  Her music crossed over to the West and she undertook prestigious concerts in big cities and worldwide capitals as well as collaborating with Robert Fripp and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the "Sidi Mansour" LP in 1994, inaugurating a new electric form of raï.  

Her back catalogue was rediscovered by a new generation raï successors including Khaled who has covered "The Camel". Many singers of the new generation venerated her as "The Mother Of The Genre" and Rachid Taha dedicated a song to her, "Rimitti".

Her most recent album N’ta Goudami, released in 2006, was a lustful combination of traditional Algerian and modern rock sounds sung in a deep voice of booming energy that belied her 83 years and garnered enthusiastic reviews [2]. For someone who had been officially banned in Algeria, Rimitti marked rai history by taking the defiant step of recording her last album at the Boussif Studios in Oran.

Cheikha Rimitti - Sidi Mansour (1994)

According to my source the 91st name Ad-Darr is the only source that produces the failure to make use of something for a higher good or that causes us not to profit or benefit from the gifts, opportunities and events the come our way.  Ad Darr is the only source of what we perceive to be harm.  It is the only source of harmful or profitless behaviour.  As Darr means to become blind to the divine intent in the unseen worlds.  It puts you in a state of great want or needs, and at the same time it makes you unable to use a remedy for a good purpose.  Letting the denseness of ego dwell in the heart is what produces real blindness.  When God blinds, it is in the heart.  Reflections on Ad-Darr is helpful for all who need to pray for enough sight to see their own blindness.

Isn't this connection with Ad Darr interesting?  It seems maybe some of her listeners judged her for her content and not her heart.  What does this remind you of? 

Another more famous Rai song is discussed in blog number 15.

33. Oumou SANGARE - Saa Magni (Death Is Terrible), Al Baqi (The Everlasting), Mali.

33. Oumou SANGARE - Saa Magni (Death Is Terrible), Al Baqi (The Everlasting), Mali.

After my trip down memory lane last week I wanted to continue to hear music that made feel like I was in a different place.  Culture is great for that so I hunted through my stash and found a compilation called African Twarang.  So I am so mega excited to find out about this artist.  You can learn more about Oumou Sangare here, doesn't she sound amazing.  If you venture into her other songs let me know what else you find.  Check out the song and the lyrics are below as well as on  you tube.  When I used to listen to this before I would imagine it was a kind of work song.  But its totally not that at all.  Its a very real look at how death is experienced by some of us.  

Oumou Sangare - Saa Magni from the album 'Oumou' (2004)

O death; O death

Death is so harsh

Death is so cruel

Death who struck down Amadou Ba Guindo

But spares no creature

Nothing can stop it

Not even fame

Or having many children

Great riches and many friends

Amadou is gone

And when I go to Douentza I will not see him again

He will never be seen again in Bamako

In Douentza Tenin Ongoïna cries for you

Whilst in Bamako Amadou cries for you

As Adja' cries for you

Your widow Fanta cries for her missing husband

For Guindo has disappeared, struck down by treacherous death

In Bamako your old friend Alou Tracré misses you

How bitter is death, how bitter separation

It is hard to break the links (of friendship)

How hard it is to be separated from one's people, Guindo

But death spares no one

The Grim Reaper of hope did not spare Amadou Guindo

If it did not spare the Prophet Mohammed

Just as it struck down Amadou Chérif

Leaving his father Bouba in pain

May his soul rest in peace

How harsh is separation, how harsh death

And merciless death strikes without distinction

Villainous death crouches at a bend in the path, lying in wait for us

May God preserve us from it

But death spares no one

It strikes in the prime of life

Perfidious death crouches at a bend in the path

O death; O death

You did not spare Guindo

No creature can escape you

O death; O death, how you are cruel

I find it hard to leave on this note.  I appreciate the rawness and harshness of the lyrics - delivered in such a beautiful melody.  As I listen my heart is thinking of eternal life.  

According to my source the 96th name Al Baqi is what eternally remains.  It is the everlasting, continuous, abiding duration of the real.  It is revealed in the process of fana and baqa, dissolving the false and realising the true self.  According to Sufi teachings fana is what never was.  What never was can be said to die since its existence is derivative and passed away.  Baqa is what always was, always is and ever shall be.  Thus, al baqi includes pre-eternity and post eternity.  There is a physical plane root meaning of al Baqi “to stay in a place”.  It is firmly established without change in space and time.  Its nature returns you to the eternal and to love.  Time is continuous, without beginning or end and cannot be divided into specific segments. 

32. Ben Deniz - Al Hafiz (The Preserver), Turkey

32. Ben Deniz - Al Hafiz (The Preserver), Turkey

This week I have purely indulged in a Turkish album that I picked up randomly when I first went to Turkey in 1995.  It was part of a college trip and we went to Bodrum.  It definitely felt like I brought a bit of Turkey back with me.  What was amazing to learn was that all my family loved the music too.  Even my dad who was a hard core Punjabi (he didn't speak or listen to any other language).   Years later it was my sister who gave me a copy of the music as I lost my cassette (gosh this makes me sound ancient).  Anyway Ive found the album on youtube but no english translations.  You can check out the sounds below - This is one of my favourite albums. I dont know what she is singing about but it just takes me to a different place overtime.   Check out the following times on the album to hear some of my favourites 2.44, 9.50, 24.00, 29.00 although I think just play it in the background to whatever you are doing is an idea. 

Wiki says Bendeniz (born Deniz Çelik; 25 July 1973 in Zurich, Switzerland) is a Swiss-Turkish pop musician who is well known in Turkey. Her first album Bendeniz in 1993, was a great success thanks to a song called "Ya Sen Ya Hiç". She won the "gold record" award in a competition sponsored by a French TV in 1995. Her music mix world pop sound with traditional Turkish sounds

I did find some of her songs with english translation below. Click links to see video and translations.  They seems to be songs about romantic love and relationships like our modern pop songs.  Although I feel I may have grown out of pop songs these feel quite different.  Maybe its good I dont know what they mean.  

Theres someone

This Spring

The Most Beautiful Ones

Red Pepper

They know

I decided to look up the 38th Name Al Hafiz (The Preserver) as it felt like something from my trip to Turkey has been preserved through this music I am listening to.  I still feel I am riding on the dalmouch - a turkish bus through scenic landscape.  So looking it up according to my source the 38th name  Al Hafiz means that everything in the heavens and earth , down to the smallest particle, is within the protection of Allah.  For human beings, it involves becoming mindful, considerate, respectful and cherishing deeply in your heart.  Al Hafiz is protecting and remembering everyone.  To realise Al Hafiz is to be conscious of the greatest of secrets, to know the secret and to keep it.  The order, sequence and timing of the universe are preserved through this quality. 

Wow so even a nostalgic trip down memory lane can have a significant meaning if I give myself time to reflect on it. 

Can wait to hear what this triggers in you?  All holiday songs welcome here! x

31. Louisa Marks and Carrol Thompson, Al Tawwab (The Granter and Accepter of Repentance), UK

31. Louisa Marks and Carrol Thompson, Al Tawwab (The Granter and Accepter of Repentance), UK 

In the background this week Angelina Jolie files for divorce and I can feel my collective female pain body come into the forefront of my mind. Eckhart Tolle in his book Power of Now talks about this idea of the pain body and I loved learning about the collective pain body.  This is something I recognise in me as a woman.  Whenever something happens to a woman I immediately can feel or empathise with her pain.  It takes me back to when I was very young at school.  I would listen to the pirate radio stations to a form of reggae called lovers rock. 

Even today a few of us ladies can get together and we always say men cant sing lovers!  Back then I was so young with hardly any experience of love and relationships but the lovers rock music felt like home.   When we used to talk about boys in school it was about who’s broken up and who has cheated on who etc. and these songs were just a comforting reminder that all men were gonna break your heart one day.    How long ago were those days and now as a mother of a son I do not hold such views.  But every so often I catch the collective female pain body giving me thoughts and ideas that I have to try catch before they take hold.  I still love listening to lovers and below are two of my favourite songs.  Reggae music just always feels good, like the sun shining and somehow these songs even though they talk of heartbreak still have a feel good vibe and thats why I think they stand the test of time.  Now I tap into the feel good of my youth, the comfort of my parents home, thinking about love and just being happy.  Some days I just put Carol Thompson in youtube and click the 50 mix and let it play all day - its great to do housework too or just chill!

According to my source the 79th name At Tawwab is the forgiveness that enables you to turn away from grudges, and perceived individual defects, towards the perfection of Allah/God.  It comes with the realisation that the divine beloved is always turning towards you, continually offering a gaze of deep forgiveness and endless compassion.  At Tawwab conveys the real meaning of repentance, the turning from the limitations of the false self and towards the perfection of your immortal soul, which is not separate from the divine reality.  Realising At Tawwab involves giving up the attachment of being right.  It means giving up self righteousness and letting go of the grudge.  It is to turn your face toward someone else with forgiveness and compassion.  It uses the densest elements of a situation as an inner impetus for transformation and to turn toward God.  Repetition of Ya Tawwb allows you to turn towards the divine face in every face.  It is an antidote for clinging to, and identifying with, a wounded sense of self-deficiency.  

Hope these words are of some comfort to anyone needing them and Angelia in case she reads this one day!

Please share your favourite lovers tracks here...cant wait to hear them!!! 

30. Desert Dwellers, USA - Al Bari (The Maker)

30. Desert Dwellers, USA - Al Bari (The Maker) 

Commentary by Murshid Inayat Khan

Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself, and there is a discord in the melody of his life. If he can quicken the feeling of another to joy or to gratitude, by that much he adds to his own life; he becomes himself by that much more alive. Whether conscious of it or not, his thought is affected for the better by the joy or gratitude of another, and his power and vitality increase thereby, and the music of his life grows more in harmony.

I came across this track by Desert Dwellers a few weeks ago.  I was looking for something positive and reflective of my inner journey.   I would love to know what you think of it. Check out their catalogue here - looks like some great finds (please share with me!).  

It reminded me of Al Bari (The Maker)

According to my source the 12th Name Al Bari is the originator of individuation.  What God creates is well proportioned and in a manner free from inconsistencies, faults, blemishes, deficits and imperfection.  The nature of Al Bari is to make the universe like that.  On a personal level it can mean to free yourself from any unclean things, to become free from guilt, and to become pure of soul.

What you think?