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Seal

Khalid Mukhtar · March 7, 2023 ·

To see him as the seal of prophethood
Is all the nūr you’ll need to brave the end

Brothers

Khalid Mukhtar · February 15, 2023 ·

Salaam upon Yunus
For the noble frustration he felt
At the obstinate rejection of his message
That frustration would be enough
For us beggars to fly into paradise

But the mission of Yunus lay
In not fleeing
Not until the Word came
And so a physical darkness
Was sent from high to surround him
In the fiery pit of of a beast under water
That he may reflect upon
The greater darkness
He had left his flock in
With the fire awaiting them

Such is rahmah
That led him to cry out
The ayah karimah

An ayah nestled in a chapter
Of The Book
A chapter titled
The Prophets

It brings us full circle
To that heavy day outside Taif
Where a man sat bleeding
As he fled an angry mob
Not because he had given up on them
But because he hadn't

He was an ayah karimah

It is opportune then
That another man came to him
A slave hailing from the land of Nineveh
The land of Yunus
Bearing refreshment for the Hashimi
With bloodied sandals

It was in the legacy of Yunus
To bring relief to his noble brother
The last of the brethren
Still on his mission

Gone

Khalid Mukhtar · February 13, 2023 ·

Every joy a passing moment
Every grief a passing moment
Every moment gone
Like water
Lost in the whorls of a dream

Passage

Khalid Mukhtar · February 8, 2023 ·

The farther we go down the road of time
The wider the field of our vision
That when we look back to things from the past
To measure what is and what isn’t

We take in so much, much more than we had
The moment the moments came down
It colors the grays calamity cast
With tinctures of azure and brown

But some things can only be read
Once time and its cloaks have been shed

Release

Khalid Mukhtar · February 1, 2023 ·

Have you
set free your fears
into the endless blue
before the Will Eternal will
have you

Unyielding

Khalid Mukhtar · January 27, 2023 ·

Khalid, come a mendicant
With nothing to your name
But unabating love for him
Whom angelkind proclaim

Then leave a mendicant no more
With heart and will so steeled
To bear all brand of wound and scar
To despair never yield

Convergence

Khalid Mukhtar · January 26, 2023 ·

You’re in his flock
Now heed his call
Or find yourself astray

The ticking clock
Will brings us all
Up on the longest Day

Reclamation

Khalid Mukhtar · January 25, 2023 ·

Come together drafty soul
In away from wind and tide
Think of times when you were whole
With no shrapnel in your side

Warm and childlike innocence
Feet and seashells on the shores
When you breathed a love intense
And a name would soothe your sores

Let the arrogances die
Die away while you repair
Salawaat in every sigh
Scent of tasbeeh in the air

Bulbul

Khalid Mukhtar · January 15, 2023 ·

Morning dew heaven’s play
Washes earth as if to say
Here’s another chance to get you right

Basmala in the air
Devastating dark despair
Hope in bulbul’s song and heron’s flight

The Budilovsky Literary Award

Khalid Mukhtar · January 2, 2023 ·

Some great news. Two of my poems were published in the Fall issue of the Prairie Light Review.

Morning Chai

Yours Truly

Morning Chai won me the Budilovsky Literary Award. They asked me to recite the winning poem at the PLR release event on December 15.

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