To fast on end for forty days
To bring your heart into a state
Then cleanse your mouth to help expel
The odors in your silent breath
And then you learn the Lord was pleased
With what you thought offensive smelled
So off you fast for forty more
Before your conference is held
The prophets don’t just spend their time
They give of it in ways sublime
Micropoetry
Heedless
Sometimes we get so passionate
To change a thing, so much so we
Forget our selves once we forget
The reason why it came to be:
To change our hearts and change us through
If only we would to leave it to
To change a thing, so much so we
Forget our selves once we forget
The reason why it came to be:
To change our hearts and change us through
If only we would to leave it to
Not For Sale
You can’t take away this soul
Even if you bring me hell
And I couldn’t sell it to you for
It isn’t mine to sell
You can’t take away my home
That is built upon a prayer
Like the call of Lady Āsiya
Extinguishing despair
إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
Even if you bring me hell
And I couldn’t sell it to you for
It isn’t mine to sell
You can’t take away my home
That is built upon a prayer
Like the call of Lady Āsiya
Extinguishing despair
إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
In Between
If you’re happy be sad
For this joy will end
If you’re sad be glad
For this grief will mend
Let the ups and the downs
Fashion smiles and frowns
On the length of the arc’s
Where it’s at my friend
For this joy will end
If you’re sad be glad
For this grief will mend
Let the ups and the downs
Fashion smiles and frowns
On the length of the arc’s
Where it’s at my friend
Hidden
Try as hard as you like
The real treasure will be hid
From tongues that mock
And eyes that gawk
And hands that raise the bid
Posture all you want
But Khalid know the truth will win
The day when tongues
And hands go numb
When eyes see all within
The real treasure will be hid
From tongues that mock
And eyes that gawk
And hands that raise the bid
Posture all you want
But Khalid know the truth will win
The day when tongues
And hands go numb
When eyes see all within
Crests and Troughs
Sometimes it comes with ease
Like snow upon the trees
And everything’s just enough
Sometimes it’s voices rising
Enthralling, appetizing
And everything’s for the nafs
Like snow upon the trees
And everything’s just enough
Sometimes it’s voices rising
Enthralling, appetizing
And everything’s for the nafs
Enwombed
From the womb of a mother
To the womb of the earth
In the womb of Al-Qadr
Berthing for birth
To the womb of the earth
In the womb of Al-Qadr
Berthing for birth
Storm
Heed the storm that knowledge wages
When the form of Āṣif rages
Fetching what is needed at
The constant speed of Nūr
When the form of Āṣif rages
Fetching what is needed at
The constant speed of Nūr
Name
The م in the name of Muhammad
Is how lips come together like hearts
The ح in the name of Muhammad
May the hamd be what from them departs
The م comes again to remind you
That a kiss is built into his name
And the د at the end: may it find you
In the deen his existence became
Is how lips come together like hearts
The ح in the name of Muhammad
May the hamd be what from them departs
The م comes again to remind you
That a kiss is built into his name
And the د at the end: may it find you
In the deen his existence became
Thaw
Here’s the lake of all I’ve done
Worn my weary heart away
Blow, O wind and shine, O sun
Melt each icy part away
Sin is like the wave that goes
On and on and then some more
Compass me, O One who knows
Still my heart and be my shore
Worn my weary heart away
Blow, O wind and shine, O sun
Melt each icy part away
Sin is like the wave that goes
On and on and then some more
Compass me, O One who knows
Still my heart and be my shore