“Karma’s Mirror: Reflections of the Soul” By Amany El-Sawy

 

“Karma’s Mirror: Reflections of the Soul”

By Amany El-Sawy  🇪🇬 

Mohy El-Din Mahmoud Hafez’s powerful and meditative monologue “كارما” explores the profound spiritual and philosophical concept of karma from both mystical and existential dimensions. Framed as a monologue or a metaphysical game between Hafez and the reader, the text journeys from curiosity to revelation, from rhetoric to spiritual confrontation. In “كارما”, Hafez does not merely write, he summons. His monologue  is an awakening cloaked in lyricism, a ritual incantation whispered through the veil of cosmic truth. It reads like an oracle’s murmur, unfolding slowly, as though drawing its reader toward a mirror that does not reflect the face, but the soul.

Hafez skillfully opens his philosophical treatise with an invitation, one deceptively simple: "Are you ready to play another game?" Yet it is not a game at all. The talented Hafez casts us into a sacred circle—a liminal space between reality and mystery, where intellect wanders, and certainty dissolves. He does not instruct; he initiates. Like a mystic at the gates of the unseen, he leads us from the fog of doubt to the fierce clarity of divine law.

The central concept, karma, is painted not with academic brushstrokes but with emotional fire. It is not explained; it is felt as a heartbeat beneath existence, as a silent judge threading through every action, every breath. The line “كما تدين تدان”—“As you sow, so shall you reap”—repeats like a ritual bell toll, its simplicity profound, its truth inescapable. Karma is not revenge. It is order. It is the silent return of all things sent out: thoughts, words, glances, betrayals, kindnesses. Nonetheless, what elevates this poem is not the explanation of karma—it is the emotional charge that burns beneath the idea. Karma, here, is almost animate. It watches. It waits. It remembers.

Hafez’s monologue takes a darker turn, moving from the universal to the painfully personal. Trust, he declares, is an illusion. To love is to invite injury. To believe in the goodness of others is to prepare one’s own ruin. This is not bitterness—it is revelation, born of wounds still warm. In a line as controversial as it is arresting, Hafiz suggests that even one's relationship with God is governed by interest: “حتى إلهك ودينك تحكمه المصلحة.” It is not blasphemy, it is a mirror held to human motives. We love because we fear hell. We pray because we desire paradise. Even in devotion, there is commerce. Hafez dares to say what others only whisper.

However, despite the weariness, the disillusionment, Hafez's monologue is not hollow. It carries the voice of a prophet wandering the wilderness—not one who has given up, but one who knows too much. The refrain of warning “سدّد دينك القديم” (“Repay your old debt”) feels like an echo from ancient scripture, like thunder before the rain. Those who think they have escaped justice, Hafez says, are merely sleeping. The universe does not forget. Neither does the soul. Hence, amid the shadows of karma and consequence, one light remains. It is not escape, nor power, nor even faith; it is humanity. Hafez's voice softens, almost pleading “كن إنسان.” “Be human.” Perhaps in that brief command lies the entire redemption, not in asceticism, not in sainthood, but in simple, luminous compassion.

To conclude,  Hafez's “كارما” feels as though it has been carved, not written—etched into stone, into stars, into the moral DNA of the universe. Hafez does not merely describe karma; he channels it. His lines tremble with spiritual force, heavy with truth that is too often hidden beneath the surface of our days. This is not a work for passive reading. It demands the reader bleed with it, reckon with it, and in the end, stand humbled before the eternal law that governs all:

Every action echoes. Every thought returns.

And still, through it all, we are called;

not to escape it, but to deserve it.

 كارما

 بقلم

     محي الدين محمود حافظ

  مستعد انت  لنلعب لعبة أخري

وسط دائرتنا المعتادة و تيه العقول

المفكرة  لنصل معا لنهاية

     الدائرة و من الشك لليقين..

         نحو شاطئ النجاة

              النور

               الله 

                 و  لنبدأ رحلتنا مع الكارما 

             فما هي الكارما ؟

               الكارما قانون كوني لتفعيل العدل الإلهي 

 

         إهدأ صديقي

         تلك فقط المقدمة لأبدأ اللعب

             الكارما هي بإختصار

               كما تدين تدان

             الكارما هي عدالة إلهية

       الكارما  كل ما ترسله يعود اليك

         الكارما هي كل فعل أو فكرة

           أو تعليق أو عمل أو سلوك 

              تفعله سيعود إليك من نفس النوع

                 كارما

                 قد  تنجيك...

               بابتسامة في وجه اخيك 

               بكلمة حق قلتها 

         بقوة و دون تردد

      و لا تخاف في الحق لومة لائم

            

      بصدقة قدمتها لمتعفف 

  بسندة مع شخص لاتعرفه لتعينة

 ااطعمت جائع   رحمت  ضعيف 

       هنا كارما ستناديك

    كل سيرجع لك في وقته المحدد 

       قانون كوني الهي

      تماما...كالشخص المدرك تماما

       أن حقيقة الكارما  بالا تثقك ابدا بالآخرين

دائما يقينك

هو  الشك

      و ان الاستسلام للعاطفه بداية لعقاب آت لانك ستلدغ ممن وثقت فيهم لا محالة 

  فقط لان أحببت 

  كل العلاقات تحكمها المصلحة

             حتي إلهك و دينك

              تحكمة المصلحة

       الجنة و النجاة من الجحيم

       الكارما عقابها آت لامحالة

    لكل من  احداث ضرر نفسي

      او مادي او معنوي لاي من 

        عباد الله وحسب نفسه

         ان لا عقاب في الدنيا

جاهل كل من لا يعلم 

  قانون الكارما

       داين تدان

       و لو بعد حين

           

     سدد دينك القديم 

   واسمعها من مجنون

   رأي ما رأي من قوانين الكارما

      سدد دينك القديم الان الكارما  ستؤذيك وتفقدك عزيز

         أعلم انكم بقلب التية الآن 

          والخارجون لسان حالهم

          تلك هلاوس مجنون

             والله ما خابت ظنون

                    كلنا راحلون

                     فقط

     كن إنسان

   إن الله لايظلم الناس شيئا

 ولكن الناس أنفسهم يظلمون

        كارما

      

       محي الدين محمود حافظ

Guardian Arabia