4. Let Go (Clinton Cerejo feat Master Saleem, Coke Studio India) - Al- Mumit (The Causer of Death)
The Causer of Death - these words either scare you or inspire you. When I was younger I was bought up in a household where death was never talked about but when it did come up it was talked about in a scary way. e.g. you have to be good otherwise this is what happens to your body when you die. It was fear that was passed onto my parents from the religious culture they practised. When I became a teenager I was fascinated by goths and saw their beauty in all dark things. But now-a-days through my own reading and deciding I see death very differently and it no longer causes me fear or pain the way it used to.
According to my source the 61st Name of Allah “ he is the only one who causes death. Essential to sufism is the teaching that physical death is a symbol for fana, the dissolving of the ego self. When God sends you a type of death - spiritual, mental or physical it is a mechanism for spiritual transformation. The lover realises with every death of the self that they are being drawn in towards the beloved. It is a process that leads to the union of lovers. A persons death day is seen as a wedding day.” Okay I think to get this you need to see yourself existing outside your physical self. Anyway just for a moment I love the idea of preparing for death as your wedding day. As a woman your wedding day is something that you do secretly think of. I wrote a few lyrics years ago on this idea. Im happy to share a few lines see below:
A night of passion with life
Forgetting who I leave behind
I’ll start my new life
Lying dead cold
You'll be crying
I'll be dancing
Forever romancing
For those of you who are creative perhaps you can write what come next? Or see what your version of events would look like/feel like? I like the "Forever romancing" and I picture forever as a circle so like a whirling dervish spinning maybe some trans-like beats.
When I heard this coke studio session with Master Saleem it reminded me of this idea. Please see the you tube description and what the song is about. I only discovered Master Saleem this summer - he helped me to connect with punjabi language which was the language I used to speak to my mom and dad. I hardly ever speak it now.
Meaning: The Poet is imploring to all beings, to not fall for the worldly traps. For life is like loose sand, that will
flow away without any warning in the endless wide ocean of impermanence. When we know that the
end of this journey will have to be done alone and empty handed, what is point of dying for desires and
planning for them each day?
The end is inevitable and hence your space is predefined...for you will, either be burnt to ashes and
hence become part of the air or, be buried and hence will become part of this earth...one day.
Poet quotes the great Saint and poet, Sant Kabirdas, "since we know the end is inevitable, we must use
this time to sow good deeds. For when we came to this earth as a new born, everyone laughed and we
cried...but when we undertake our final journey, the world must miss us for the plethora of good that
we would have done...while we enjoy our communion with The One".