Ahamad Ilyaas Vilayathullah

I'm not a poet,
In the conventional sense of the term.

I'm not a poet,
If poets are those
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I beckon you, my friend,
To open your eyes,
And see everything around,
The diverse everything,
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We're Muslims.
We believe in Allah,
The creator of the universe
And everything in it.
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The sky, the sun, the moon, the stars…
The clouds, the winds,
The earth, the greenery, the trees, the shrubs, the creepers,
The landscape, the waterscape,
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Every time I see the hardest kind of rocks,
I am reminded of the heart of a Jew
Who rebelled and transgressed, and flung to the skies
The manna and the salwa of divine grace
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In the dry, arid summer of my life
I kept praying to my lord, the creator,
Asking for a torrential downpour,
The rain that fills all the valleys and lowlands,
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It was a winter morning.
I was walking along the road.
The desert- turned city
Was unfriendly
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They who put you behind bars
For years over a dozen now,
Are killing you inch by inch,
Muscle by muscle, limb by limb,
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Come guys, let's sing
A song of joy
In praise of the high.

Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah, La Ilahaillallah

He is the one who made
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I hadn't slept much,
Just five centuries or a little more.
I still felt sleepy
And liked to snore awhile.
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Now that the tyrant is gone,
You fail to know
What your position today is.

He was a tyrant, no doubt.
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The sea is not turbulent today.
The waves advance and recede.
The silver rays of the rising sun,
The white clouds of the blue sky,
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Oh Allah,
the merciful,
the benevolent!
In your blessed name,
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Late one night, all in oranges,
I was in a rare dream.
I was so involved in the vision
That nothing could draw me from it.
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You're a Muslim.
You swear that
There is no god but Allah.
And that Muhammad
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The Moon split into two halves
at Mina, near Makkah, in Arabia.

Its one half on one side of the mountain
and the other half on the other side,
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The rain that befell
On the people
Who were warned enough.

Never has rain been
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The cave is a comfortable place,
Cool, shady, and safe.
It holds you there for a while or so
And hosts you elegantly
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The final messenger of Allah
To all mankind on the earth!
Let peace and blessings of Allah
Rain on you in abundance!
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I bid goodbye to Eleri,
The green hilltop on the Western Ghats
In the far north!
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