BARAKAT

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Arabic: حبّك نار
Pronunciation: Hobbak Naar
Translation: Your love is fire.

Can you imagine the joy of the first man or woman on earth who could domesticate fire?
Can you imagine how tough and scary it must have been to spend the night in the darkness of a jungle?
Can you imagine that moment when they stood in awe around it, watching the glorious flames dancing in the air, spreading heat and light all over the space?
They didn’t understand it — not yet, not even close — but still, they could weave thousands of myths and stories around it.
And yet, it was sacred anyway.
It brought light and security, and allowed life to feel a little less fragile.

And that is also love.
The flame of love is burning inside each of us.

“As if in each of us
There once was a fire,
And for some of us,
There seems as if there are only ashes now.
But when we dig in the ashes,
We find one ember,
And very gently we fan that ember.
Blow on it, it gets brighter,
And from that ember, we rebuild the fire.
Only thing that’s important is that ember.
That’s what you and I are here to celebrate:
That though we’ve lived our life totally involved in the world,
We know.
We know that we’re of the spirit.
The ember gets stronger,
Flame starts to flicker a bit,
And pretty soon you realize that all we’re going to do for eternity
Is sit around the fire.”

— Ram Dass, Sit Around the Fire (Jon Hopkins, 2021)

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