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
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