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          What the pearls are? They are story of a hidden manifestation _______ Away from the human eye, glittering, growing within the veils, are a pride of some artist’s creation. The depth of the sea, the inner of the shell and the treasure hidden in this heap of a precious treasure _______ provides wonderment for the human reason and intellect.

          When this hidden treasure is revealed, it glares the eyes. When this secret unveils, it is cherished, it is valued, its demands are felt, and this small creature with its glare creates glitterings in the world of man, the crown of creation. Man adorns his person with the rosary of the pearls.

          Nature loves pearls. It is high profile creation. Allah has similized the beauty of the virgin of paradise to a pearl hidden in a tent. These hidden pearls, encased in the core of a shell, the pearls within the veil, shining and glittering, away from human touch and human eyes, the virgin wrapped in the cloak of its chastity, as chaste and pure as ruby and coral.

          What a narration of beauty and this beauty of narration _______ lord God! It is but Allah’s discourse. Allah likes pearls Similitude with pearls _______ is heavenly simile. The thing having no experience of human touch, whose glare is hidden from the human eye and vision _______ What a pearl that pearl would be. As the Ocean is abound with a treasure of pearls, so is the paradise shining with glittering pearls. The hidden treasure in camps. Precious pearls, a concealed secret, the masterpiece of creation, an imprint of an artist, the hallmark imprint of the Artist _______ pearls but pearls, heavens into heavens, the string of precious pearls, the treasures of rewards and honours, staying in the canopy _______ for this blessing would the man thank for  _______ what to deny and what to falsify. Such are acts and acts of mercy, blessings and blessings, beneficence and beneficence.  The pearl is a favourite metaphor of nature. For the believers it is a sign of much awaited mercy.

          This cosmos abounds in pearls ______ The pearls within sea and without sea _______ From pouring clouds strings of precious pearls keep falling. So these pearls fall, yet a rain of pearls falls from the skies _______ these treasures _______ for the earth. The pearls quench the thirst of earth, enrich the land, grow many a treasures. They bestow preservance to the earth. Created by the Preserver, showered pearls of clouds, shining drops, distilled, purified, sacred pearls, pregneting pearls. What an abundance of blessings! What an abundance of bliss! A lot of treasures, pearls everywhere. Pearls in the oceans, the pearls of rain on earth and then the sacred pearls of dew ______ the innocent drop that flowers a bud ______ how beautiful ______ the hidden treasure ______ many a secret mystery ______ Dew drops work wonders beyond description ______ The dew for human, for human’s health a heavenly gift ______ a sprinkle of pearls. Dew is a great mystery, the miracle of night, the tears of night ______ Flowers blossom, so hearts bloom ______ Dew which bestows colour to flowers and fragrance to colours is a wealth ______ Beautiful and precious like pearls ______ the gift of Nature, a treasure in bonus______ a hidden treasure ______ which blessing can be falsified! ______ It is benevolence of Allah

          So are pearls in seas, pearls on earth, pearls in air and the sky ______ sky but shines with the pearls. The glowing pearls, seen from far, the occult mysteries, the twinklings in the vast expanse of Universe are due to stars ______ Allah denotes stars as glowing candles ______ again and again in metaphors “We decorated the skies with these beacons” ______ Praise be to Allah who adorned the sky with pearls, sacred pearls, hidden pearls, the masterpiece of Nature, the excellence of creation ______ How great sketches, great manifestations and great delicacies they are. These stars pose a glaring sight ______ Pearls but pearls ______ beads of pearls. The Nature has studded them with beauty and elegance. Man should meditate. ______ Let science do its task and lovers do their own _____ Vision needs manifestations and manifestations are real pearls, scattered everywhere ______ treasures within treasures, beauty within beauty and pleasure within pleasure. How can those pearls skip mention which sprout from the core of heart at night and flow through the eyes of a man. Either these are the stars of sky of meditation or ambers of inner fire. What are these tears? Only the pearls ______ shining, flowing and warm tears: An expression of lamentation and depiction of old memories ______ These tears are a precious treasure, innocent and sacred, more beautiful than the beauty of veiled virgin, more occult than virgin of Paradise.

          And this treasure is the might of a feeble person ______ The fountain of elixir springing from the depths of heart is indeed fountain of properity, a breaking news of oases in a desert of despair ______ Tears are companions of loneliness and glad tidings of the acceptance of prayers. Man has such a boundless wealth which confers upon him the state of sightedness.

          These pearls are really precious. This treasure is extremely valued. This gift is a novel benevolence of Nature ______ The pearls illuminating the paths of Allah’s Nearness are the tears of a man.

          The value of these pearls, indeed lamps and stars is that their buyer himself is the mercy of God. His destiny is bright whose nights are enlightened with tears and so his future deserves self-consciousness and self-recognition. These pearls never go in vain. This is the wealth from which even the giver is unaware. This is the destiny of sensitive souls.  The eye with tears is no less than a sizzling verse. The tears are ambassador of another world. Lamenting cries of inner pain are revealed by tears. The tears of a man bestows on him the expanse of awareness. The tongue of soul is tears. The voice of soul is the tears of early dawn. The tears provide energy to the flight of soul. The angel which brings wealth of maddening love to the worthlessness of reason descends with the tears. The lamentations of early dawn is just another name of rewarded sigh. Tears let no veil between Creator and the creation. These are the pearls which make a man aware to his inner being. The great people of the world are a result of midnight sobbings. The hidden secrets can’t be revealed till the eye is without tears. They say, that in olden times a Guru ordered his protégé to collect the Nectar of herbs. For years protégé collected the essence of herbs and happily left for his Guru, with a bottle full of that treasure. He stumbled and bottle slipped from his hands and broke into pieces. He agonized, tormented and started weeping and crying, “Oh my Guru, I am ruined, lost, all my asset is lost, all that I acquired is lost. Now I am old enough to strive again ______ My Guru! I am lost, I am destroyed, all my wealth ruined”. His Guru kept listening and then he uttered a loud laughter with joy ______ The protégé said, “I am dying and you are laughing!” Guru said, “You think that you’re ruined, I know that you have found that wealth today which infuses nectar in the herbs. Treasure is not lost but it is found.”  The protégé asked, “Which treasure?” Guru said, “Your tears ______ Had there been not these tears, barrenness would have been all there. Congratulations my protégé! Feel free from the worries of yourself ______ in this life one has to collect nectar of his heart’s herb and that is tears. Today you are exalted. You have got a vision of goddess of your heart’s temple”.

          Nevertheless the man’s tears are the mightiest source of gaining mercy. The cry with tears is always accepted. The sigh of midnight is acknowledged forever and ever. The appeal of tears is never refused in the court of the Lord. Ages get transformed by the tears, fates are changed, destinies are revised. The storms of vicissitudes  change their direction. The ebbs and flows change their path. Sins get redemption. The downtrodden past gets prosper future. The lost is found. The delinquents become destined. The whirled ships are shored safely ______ The parting of mundane becomes the Union with the truth. The string of tear-pearls brings the news of heavens ______ these real pearls, glittering gems, resurrect the desperate and dead person. The lamentation which fails to find words is expressed in tears.

          Devoid of religion, race and colour, every human eye shares same tears. It is the sole bond of a man with another man ______ a bond of affection and sympathy ______.

          The baggage of the travellers of love is tears. Love, be it real or mundane is expressed with tears. The visitors of Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) tomb really understand the language of tears. This asset is someone’s miracle. Allah has metaphored the rivers as the tears of mountains and tearless eye as a stone ______ a stone heart, a stone fate ______. What should we present before our Allah. Account of deeds no longer is presentable. Nothing is left in the balance of deeds. And of the worship ______ it might be acclaimed or not ______ who knows ______ Satan’s million years worship was gone waste with a single disobedience. We ignore many commandments and do our own. What can we, the dissidents present ______ with our broken hearts and shedding tears we prostrate before Him and say Oh Allah! This worthless asset is all we gathered in this life. We can only present you these humble gifts of repentance and reprimand ______ Accept it ______ in your esteem court, in your majesty of pardonship, honour our tears, pardon our misdeed in person and in totality, bless us with the inner pain and blessing of truthfulness of our elders. Our request, lamentation and allegiance is only that bless our pearls of tears with your exalted generosity ______ Your know that we are helpless and miserable ______ We are followers of your beloved Prophet (PBUH). What else is our worth. Accept it oh Lord, our appeal, which we only submit, in the language of tears. You, only you, are the last refuge of our tears. If you accept them, there pearls are precious. You like pearls ______ so we present these pearls in you court. For the sake of most sacred pearls, DURR-E-YATEEM and DURR-E-NAJAF, accept these pearls of us!