Do you know the significance of December 17th?

It is the death anniversary of Rumi the most read poet in the West.

You are confused about celebrating a death anniversary yes!

Who celebrates death?

In a world where we are scared of death and deny the reality of it, despite it being the inevitable realities of life, death and taxes you cannot escape from, let me remind you of the truth.

I don’t want to be morbid but I want to remind you of the reality of this very short life.

And you are one of the beautiful souls I  suspect that are wanting, yearning to leave a lasting legacy aren’t you before you depart? Hence all the achievements you have amassed?

There is something very beautiful about death when a soul leaves the world with a legacy intact isn’t there?

I visited my mother’s friend who passed away at home recently. She was there in her front room lying there. She had passed away several hours earlier by the time I arrived at her home. The peace and tranquility that her face revealed, I will never forget. I have never seen such a peaceful sight of death. I have never witnessed such beauty in death as that recent sight of my mother’s friend.

Perhaps because I am becoming more comfortable with death since my father passed away when I was thirty eight years old and I was there when my mother breathed her last breath in 2021. I was by her side in the last thirteen hours of her life miraculously during the COVID pandemic. And she died in hospital.

Seeing a soul who has been trapped in a body as it leaves the body, to be reunited with their beloved is a sight to see!

It’s so romantic.

I am a romantic!

And that is why Rumi’s death anniversary is celebrated in Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Iran. Children make cards and everyone recites his poems. The whirling dervishes whirl like they have never whirled before.

Because he travelled on 17th December  from this material realm to the spiritual realm.

He was reunited to his beloved God and to Prophet Muhammad and all the Prophets and also to his teacher the Dervish Shams Tabriz who set him on fire.

Rumi symbolises a radical universal love that was needed in the time he lived.

The kind of love that doesn’t see faith, gender, nationality, skin colour or class.

The kind of love that just sees another human being.

This fiery love that just wants to embrace you and hold you and consume you with its passion for life.

This love that refuses to descend into the dramas around and the endless campaign to divide and hate, blame and recrimination.

This simple love that sets your soul on fire and sets your body dancing and whirling .

Yes today is the death anniversary of Rumi. I would argue as a heartcentred professional, who has been a social worker for over 33 years and a heartcentred entrepreneur for over 5 years and a heartcentred creative for most of my life, this is an important anniversary for you too.

Let’s join in remembering Rumi and reading his poetry and remembering that the heart is pink 🩷 in terms of the chakras. The colour therapists say so according to my therapist that being heartcentred is pink 🩷.

Yes in this world which feels so divided and broken and on the verge of extremes and strangled by the adversarial conversations and discussions, let us remind ourselves of Rumi and his standing for love and justice.

Let’s remind ourselves of how he spoke so calmly and eloquently to the Mongol general about to devastate Konya.

With his love, embracing love, this resulted in Rumi being successful in saving Konya by being rampaged and ransacked by the Mongol army and Konya was saved.

Rumi, his life, his poetry and even his death is a testament to love.

In a world full of hate and misunderstanding let’s wear pink 🩷 whether it is a hat or a scarf or write with a pink pen, let’s join the pink 🩷 movement or the pink 🩷 club to show our solidarity with love.

Remember justice is the public expression of love and let’s stand for justice against Technofacism.

In a world where we increasingly look for answers in an external ideology, person, online let’s do instead what Rumi advised:

There is a Soul inside of your Soul,

Search that Soul,

There is a jewel in the mountain of  body,

Look for that mine of jewel,

Oh Sufi passing,

Search inside if you can not outside.

These are the words of Jalal ak Din Rumi

That is why I offer The Reflective Space online so you have a safe and non judgemental space to find those answers within you to whatever problem you are going through.

I am known as The Muslim Alchemist because I transform the crap that is inside of you to golden opportunities where you connect to the Gold within you.

I am the bridge from personal development and therapy to transformational coaching.

Because you don’t want information you want transformation.

You want to be transformed like Rumi was when he met Shams Tabriz this merchant selling trousers in the market place.

You want to be set on fire, your soul to be set on fire so you can write poetry like he did, say what you have always wanted to say to the world, this divided world.

I have said in the past that I am 21st Century Shams looking for a 21st Century Rumi.

I am a merchant in the online market place though selling not trousers but a reflective space where you can find answers within you.

Come and join me in a reflective space I have set up online called The Reflective Space Writing challenge it is a free challenge you can join.

It is available for you to join until 29th December.

The Reflective Space Writing challenge is on Telegram and you can join via this link.

https://t.me/+gYJKoX9iJv5iNjU0

And as I said it’s free!

By joining The Reflective Space Writing challenge you will have a taste of The Reflective Space Adventure aka The Spiritual Alchemy Quest and The Reflective Space Consultation or The Reflective Space Sessions

Oh that’s an adventure worth embarking on!

I will be talking more about that as the holiday season approaches.

For now all I want is you to join the pink 🩷 movement or pink 🩷 club. You don’t need to join an online community for that just wear a pink 🩷 hat or use a pink 🩷 pen or wear something pink 🩷 to show your solidarity with embracing justice and this radical love that goes beyond faith, skin colour, nationality and class.

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