al Jami (The Gatherer)

Your preoccupation with this world ... 

Eating ... Drinking ... Seeking more and more to eat ... To have ... To enjoy ...

Your slavery at the hands of your flesh and your ego have made you inattentive to everything else ... 

Only when the bird of your soul flies from the cage of the flesh will this dream evaporate ... And you will find yourself alone with your deeds ... 

Then you see that single companion whom you hug and press to your chest ... 

Is it something warm and friendly ... Or is it full of snakes and scorpions and poisonous thorns ??? 

Then you will know what you presumed to be good was Hell ... 

And what you thought was suffering was Paradise.