By way of metaphor, one can describe the centre of the human experience as the being in the chest. And one can distinguish between fundamentally two different modalities, two modalities that you can experience the subject as, the subject being the self or the one that's experiencing. In Tasawwuf we refer to one modality as...

Sing Fakeer - Poetry by Shahbano Aliani.

Nothing Else Matters - Poetry by Shahbano Aliani.

We are very fortunate, very blessed to be among people who have had to claim the Deen, because those people who have had to claim the Deen also are those people who have in a sense had to reinvent the Deen.

My Heart Has Gone Everywhere - Poetry by Shahbano Aliani.

You Are the Music That Makes My Atoms Spin - Poetry by Shahbano Aliani.

As human beings we have two modalities that we operate in. The one is the modality of witnessing, of observation, of seeing. The second is a modality of acting. These normally oscillate.