My friend Mohammed

Yesterday Mohammed was in San Francisco. Mohammed Pervaiz, my friend from Xoriant, lives in Utah with his wife and son and was here on business.  During our brief visit we chatted about career, family, marriage, friends from Xoriant whom we had stayed connected and a myriad of other topics. The highlight was, that even though we had not seen each other since 2002,
 it was as if we had never been apart. In the end of our visit we got to the topic of God, a circuitous route to this last deep discussion, inspired by my recent travels to Dubai. Mohammed is Muslin, I am Christian and we discovered that we both share a common love of the poet Rumi. At the end of our short visit together, we connected at a Divine level and I am still experiencing the deep joy from our most profound connection.  In the years I worked with Mohammed, we had never discussed our faith. Our friendship has endured all these years with little contact and yet a living example of the Oneness we share.

From Love Poems from God, translated by Daniel Ladinsky:

Rumi, Pay Homage

If God said,

"Rumi, pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,"  there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, not any act, I would not bow to.

Mohammed, my soul bows to you and to our beloved universal all.