Yazid Quotes

Jangan berharap kepada manusia, karena engkau akan kecewa. Berharaplah kepada Allah, niscaya engkau tidak akan pernah kecewa.

As Yazid, the tyrant of Karbala, never suffered even from a headache, people believed that he was blessed by Allah. But that was a misinterpretation. In reality, Allah had abandoned him completely. He wanted nothing to do with him.

Engkau mesti sedar, sebaik-baik mengikis kolonialisme dalam apa bentuk jua, bukan dengan menunjukkan kesalahan musuh, tapi dengan kekuatan menolaknya.

Yazidism is an ancient monotheistic religion, spread orally by holy men entrusted with our stories.

Menurut tauhid, banyak itu asalnya satu. Mesti ada satu dulu, baru ada dua, baru ada tiga, baru ada empat, seterusnya baru ada banyak. Tak ada satu sen, tak jadi sepuluh sen. Itu dalil Tuhan itu satu, Allah Maha Esa. Lain daripada satu maknanya baharu. Tiap-tiap yang baharu berubah-ubah, terjadi atau dijadikan, sama seperti jadi-jadian.

Once he has recognized his invisible guide, a mystic sometimes decides to trace his own isnlld, to reveal his spiritual genealogy, that is, to disclose the "chain of transmission" culminating in his person and bear witness to the spiritual ascendancy which he invokes across the generations of mankind. He does neither more nor less than to designate by name the minds to whose family he is conscious of belonging. Read in the opposite order from their phenomenological emergence, these genealogies take on the appearance of true genealogies. Judged by the rules of _our historical criticism, the claim of these genealogies to truth seems highly precarious. Their relevance is to another "transhistoric truth," which cannot be regarded as inferior (because it is of a different order) to the material historic truth whose claim to truth, with the documentation at our disposal, is no less precarious. Suhrawardi traces the family tree of the IshrlqiyOn back to Hermes, ancestor of the Sages, (that Idris-Enoch of Islamic prophetology, whom Ibn rArabi calls the prophet of the Philosophers) ; from him are descended the Sages of Greece and Persia, who are followed by certain �ofis (Abo Yazid Bastlmi, Kharraqlni, I;Ialllj, and the choice seems particularly significant in view of what has been said above about the Uwaysis}, and all these branches converge in his own doctrine and school. This is not a history of philosophy in our sense of the term; but still less is it a mere fantasy.

If you are powerful, what more can you do, besides you can kill someone, and this one will be a martyr; what will be you then: If the cruel and mean ones had understood that, history would not have remembered them as Yazid.

Whether a friend is with you or away from you, continue loving him. 'Umar ibn Ahmad recites a poem of Yazid al-Muhallabi: If you part from us, may God lead You to beautiful places. When you come to us, you are always welcome. When you go, do not fear that we will ever forget you. When you come, do not feel that we will ever have enough of you. (p. 95)

Lineage does not make a person's character The character of a person makes a lineage dignity. Although Yazid was also from the family of Hazrat Muawiyah but His character destroyed the dignity of his lineage forever.

Hasan and Husayn tolerated Muawiya and entered into an accord with him for the benefit of the people and the faith. At that time, no other option would have yielded better results, given the circumstances. With Yazid, however, acquiescing to his rule would not save the faith or the people. While Muawiya maintained a public façade of piety and regard for the tenets of the faith, Yazid was a drunken miscreant who publicly violated what any Muslim would hold sacred. The people of Iraq saw this. They beseeched Husayn once again.

Yazidism is an ancient monotheistic religion, spread orally by holy men entrusted with our stories. Although it has elements in common with the many religions of the Middle East, from Mithraism and Zoroastrianism to Islam and Judaism, it is truly unique and can be difficult even for the holy men who memorize our stories to explain. I think of my religion as being an ancient tree with thousands of rings, each telling a story in the long history of Yazidis. Many of those stories, sadly, are tragedies.

People say that Yazidism isn’t a “real” religion because we have no official book like the Bible or the Koran. Because some of us don’t shower on Wednesdays—the day that Tawusi Melek first came to earth, and our day of rest and prayer—they say we are dirty. Because we pray toward the sun, we are called pagans. Our belief in reincarnation, which helps us cope with death and keep our community together, is rejected by Muslims because none of the Abrahamic faiths believe in it. Some Yazidis avoid certain foods, like lettuce, and are mocked for their strange habits. Others don’t wear blue because they see it as the color of Tawusi Melek and too holy for a human, and even that choice is ridiculed.

Muhammadan tradition, which with rare exceptions is uniformly hostile to the Umayyad dynasty, regards Husayn as a martyr and Yazid as his murderer.

All existent things are the words of Allah which are inexhaustible (18) because they are from "kun" and "kun" is the word of Allah. Is the word ascribed to Him according to what He really is? His what-ness is not known. Or is it that Allah descends to the form of the one who says, "kun", and so the word "kun" is the reality of that form to which he descended or in which He is manifest? Some of the gnostics take one side and some take the other side, and some of them are bewildered in the business and do not know. This is a question which can only be recognised by taste (dhawq), as was the case with Abu Yazid al-Bistami when he breathed into the ant which he had killed and it returned to life. He knew in that action by Whom he had breathed, and that was an 'Isawian witnessing. As for the revival of meaning by knowledge, that is the divine life, essential, eternal, sublime, and luminous, about which Allah said, "Is someone who was dead and whom We brought to life, supplying him with a light by which to walk among the people..." (6:123) Whoever gives life to a dead soul by the life of knowledge in a particular problem connected to knowledge of Allah, has brought him to life by it, and it is "a light for him by which he walks among the people, i.e. among his likes in form.

He who looks at people through (the eyes of ) knowledge hates them, but he who looks at them through (the eyes of ) True Reality (the Creator) shows mercy to them.

It may be tempting to imagine that if the Bush administration had known the power of the Karbala story, American troops would never have been ordered anywhere within a hundred miles of the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, but that too is wishful thinking. As with Yazid in the seventh century, so with George Bush in the twenty-first, history is often made by the heedless.

....... Hidung Leman bagaikan digeletek-geletek saat asap itu menyinggah. Geram-geram suka Leman! "Bila kau sudah berjanji, itu sudah menjadi satu jadual. Bila sudah menjadi satu jadual, harus pula kau datangi tepat pada waktunya," balas Yazid tenang. Berfalsafah seperti seorang pujangga.