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Word, like wind, cuts through you / Withers all but true you

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Rajulun Mu’min

Khalid Mukhtar · July 26, 2020 · Leave a Comment

The construct Rajulun Mu’min is full of nūr. You must think about it.
-Shaykh Amin Kholwadia, Tafsīr Surah Ghafir


Heed the nūr that is in
Rajulun mu’min

Had received his lesson
Rajulun mu’min

From the shining yadin
Rajulun mu’min

Kept his faith well hidden
Rajulun mu’min

In a palace of sin
Rajulun mu’min

Heard the tyrant begin
Rajulun mu’min

His nefarious spin
Rajulun mu’min

To come out with a win
Rajulun mu’min

So he came to reckon
Rajulun mu’min

In a swift decision
Rajulun mu’min

Made them all to listen
Rajulun mu’min

To his voice now risen
Rajulun mu’min

And his faith bubblin’
Rajulun mu’min

Like a sweet fountain
Rajulun mu’min

He’s the help from within
Rajulun mu’min

Heed the nūr that is in
Rajulun mu’min

Need the nūr that is in
Rajulun mu’min

Scent

Khalid Mukhtar · July 25, 2020 · Leave a Comment

We may be parted
But let’s hang in there
Throw a shirt on my face
Dry away the despair

I’ll meet you again
Just a question of when
In the shallows of space
Or the depths of a prayer

Any peace that you feel
All the peace that you want
Is in ṣabrun jameel
And a scent in the air

Fishing

Khalid Mukhtar · July 11, 2020 · Leave a Comment

I spend hours thinking
To make me feel smart
Then render my thoughts
Into words, call it art
To exchange it for fame
There’s no shallower game
Than a catch from the deeps
Of my heart

Cure with salt to keep it from rotting

Free

Khalid Mukhtar · July 6, 2020 · Leave a Comment

The trap that is hid
In my quest to be free
Is that I can’t be rid
Of the tyrant that’s me

Can only be free
As ‘abd Al-Ghaniyy

Broken Hearts

Khalid Mukhtar · June 28, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Let me not mend
A broken heart
With the strands
Of its tattered soul

But in Your Name
Restore each part
With Your Hands
To a perfect whole

Paradox

Khalid Mukhtar · June 23, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Paradoxes line the path
Of the seeking soul:

The more it learns
The less it knows

The more it toils
The less it makes

The longer the journey
The farther it goes

The more it has
The less it takes

The less it wants
The more it gets

The more it has
The less it needs

The greater the trial
The lesser it frets

The more it follows
The more it leads

And the humbler it grows
The humbler it grows

Till the humbled array
In the straightest of rows

And all that is left
Is a soul that is blessed

With the world at its feet
And it couldn’t care less

In Defense of Ibn Turab’s Verbosity

Khalid Mukhtar · June 20, 2020 · Leave a Comment

You tell me that I use a word too many
But words are much like colors, don’t you see
How pleased or how offended we’re by any
Diverging value or intensity
You paint a wall a certain shade of sky
Alaskan, Early Morn or Shooting Star
They’re blue if you just plan on getting by
But color-wise you won’t go very far
So when I use a hundred words to say
What you think just requires twenty five
You’ve only heard the quarter of a gray
That I relayed four times intensified
    Our wordiness is hard on one who rues
    The value and intensity of hues

Teardrop Mercy

Khalid Mukhtar · June 18, 2020 · Leave a Comment

This hurt won’t go away
This agony won’t stop
While there’s acres of a garden
Watered by a teardrop

There’s a greater love that lies
In the ocean of your eyes

Such a rahmah never dies

Created

Khalid Mukhtar · June 14, 2020 · Leave a Comment


واحسن منك لم تر قط عيني
و أجمل منك لم تلد النساء
خلقت مبرأ من كل عيب
كانك قد خلقت كما تشاء

– حسان بن ثابت

There is none handsomer I’ve seen than you
No woman beauty bore more celebrated
Created without trace of fault or flaw
As if you chose how you would be created

– Hassān bin Thābit
Thanks to my dear friend, Ibn Turab, for bringing up this poem by Sayyidanā Hassān, RadhiAllahu anhu.

Divide

Khalid Mukhtar · June 12, 2020 · Leave a Comment

You split people for control
Just as you split the Divine
But how can you turn a soul
That’s committed to align
With the order of The One
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