Renewal

To have the comfort of knowing that Allah knows is the point. Ishq!

– Shaykh Amin Kholwadia, Tafsir Surah Qāf

These six stanzas inspired by Shaykh Amins’s tafsīr of Surah Qāf, Session 2.

Send prayers and send blessings on his name
Before you heed this message Qasimiyy
Renewal is a constant in this game
Of time that guarantees the loss of me

This love for newness is an endless song
We long for change until the day we die
Proclaiming hope in God with every dawn
And crescent moons that sickle days gone by

What’s more: the kalimah renews our faith
Like rain that falls upon the barren earth
Salaah renews our time and blesses space
Zakaah renews our wealth and checks our worth

And Ramadan renews our lifelong goal
When we obsess to find that night of Power
And Hajj recasts the pilgrim’s weary soul
As new born child's that lives its foremost hour

Now khalid mourn the arrogance of man
With empty claim I am with Allah Let’s
Return to the beginning of Ihsān:
Allah knows me better than I myself

Ishq! The stilling comfort when you know
That Allah knows and that’s the point my friend
To make yourself a cushion from each woe 
And say Allah is with me in the end