No Profit, No Loss: A Zero-Sum Game Poem by Mohammad Younus

Not profit, No loss: A zero- sum game,
If you tell by tongue or by heart, the holy name - -
Even a rosary of pearls will avail naught
Listen to the sound of soul by your heart,
The sound, like a strait of water,
joins the two seas - -
brackish, and the sweet sea,
If you desire to know the eternal truth,
Take the cup from the sweet sea...
...filled with the water of truth
If you know not ' The Truth', hide in a pagan temple
In the eyes of the law, hypocrites are not Mumineen - -
Even if they tell beads, say prayers, and read the Qurān,
Within every body is hidden a soul,
As within a walnut is hidden the light.
The verse of the sublime Qur'an....
'Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth, '...
...clearly mentions it.

Mykoul