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9-7-1441

Khalid Mukhtar · April 30, 2020 · Leave a Comment

I see the sky when it’s blue
And I see it when it’s gray
But the seeing can’t be true
If in the hues of day
I see no gift from You
Blue skies magnolia

9-6-1441

Khalid Mukhtar · April 29, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Am I to spend my dwindling years
Wondering, Ya Rahman
At your sweet generosities
That span from dawn to dawn
Not knowing if I’m blundering
In my attempts at wondering

Teach me then how to wonder
That my leisure may not be in vain

9-5-1441

Khalid Mukhtar · April 28, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Take all my fears of poverty
Of sickness, mediocrity
Of tyrannous authority
And gray unpopularity

Transform these fears, Ya Rabb
Under Your Mercy’s pressure
Into a fertile phobia
Of earning Your displeasure

9-4-1441

Khalid Mukhtar · April 27, 2020 · Leave a Comment

This separation pains me so
A dagger pressed into my side
How fortunate are those who by
That patch of Paradise abide

9-3-1441

Khalid Mukhtar · April 26, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Let me feel Your Rahmah fall
As sunshine or as rain
Washing away all of all
Till only You remain

9-2-1441

Khalid Mukhtar · April 25, 2020 · Leave a Comment

There was a time when all I knew
About Your love for me
Was in the sweet countenance of my mother

Then one night she returned to You
And with her all that sweetness too
And love: I thought I’d never know another

Then all my thoughts on love and loving
Came between Your Hands
So beautiful the manner you arrayed it

To fathom what beloved means
Can raise up from the sands
The fragments of a love that never made it

For years I held my intellect
A candle to the sun
A folly burned and sent where follies go

Until I came to see her face
In Your love for the one
Who loves me more than I can ever know

9-1-1441

Khalid Mukhtar · April 24, 2020 · Leave a Comment

This must be the first wave
Of Rahmah from You
That I woke up today
Realizing it’s true

I’m lesser compared
With the souls I have mocked
Much lesser in view
Of the path I have walked

Cast my heart on the hearth
Of this furnace divine
Let it be of the ones
That You choose to refine

Wretched

Khalid Mukhtar · April 20, 2020 · Leave a Comment

No matter how many mouths I feed
How selflessly kind or noble the deed
It’s only taufīq if I see the tauhīd
If I don’t I must be the wretch in need

Garden-bound

Khalid Mukhtar · April 18, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Magnolia; photo courtesy: Maryam C.
I’m going on a vacation
I’m never coming back
It will be joy, pure joy
Won’t you come with me, khalid

There’ll be acres of grassy meadows
That front a garden green
A garden spread much wider than
All the forests you’ve ever seen

And the trees stand tall and mighty
With their leaves of green and gold
With fruit that offer themselves
For the plucking, I am told

We’ll eat one together
We’ll share it if you stay
Not because we’ll need to but I think
We’ll like it more that way

I’ll take a bite and lose myself
In the high that it will bring
You’ll take a bite and lose yourself
In a song you’ll want to sing

It will be exhilarating
But we won’t go out of breath
We’ll be all done with breathing
No more injury or death

And then we’ll talk about it all
As we sit down by a stream divine
I’d probably talk about my garden
My garden, yes, all mine

All mine

You will have your garden too
We can go visit it later, or
We could go there first, or whenever
But whenever won’t be a thing anymore

If I get there first, then promise me
You’ll come along as well
We’ll never have to leave that place
Where pleasures only swell

And I won’t ever have to write
My thoughts in ether or paper
But I could if I really wanted to
If that’s what I really want to do

Please promise me you’ll come
Make sure you plant your garden first
Before you pack your things
And trade your breath for wings

I’ll meet you by the fountain

Just saying

Khalid Mukhtar · April 13, 2020 · Leave a Comment

It’s only wise if you can tell
That the saying when it’s said
Is a wisdom as well
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