On This Ramzan Day Poem by Narayanan Nair. P Perunthanam

On This Ramzan Day



Holy Qur”an beamed through Prophet Muhammad
A Guide to renovate, enervate the passive uncouth.
Even Rasool had no power to enforce but propagate
Only to be a model to make human-beings modern.
His Madina Agreement modeled the modern politics
Of this confused world of plural intolerant society-
An accursed society that killed girls heard the words
Of salvation to parents by fostering two girls at least.
Observation of Nature, reading and thinking: sources
Of Knowledge being the vitality of Islam were directed.
Monism: faith in lone Almighty Creator and Protector
Who also is the Destroyer was insisted and preached.
Jihad(Holy War) with the Qur”an for self-purification
But with arms was the last resort of self protection.
War at Badr was fought followed by suffering in Mecca
For thirteen years and the failure to live in Madina.
Comparable to the Kurukshetra War Pandavas fought
As every other effort of Peace was rudely foiled.
Patience is the half of Faith; no compulsion to believe;
If one follows the Islamic path that is only to his soul.
The virtue and the evil will be rewarded accordingly
Only the doer need to carry the fruits of the deeds.
Indian “Karma Bhala Sidhantha” is recalled well here
As I think of it on this Ramazan Day: a day of Fire
The Fire of Lord Buddha burns the vices during Ramdan.
Let us read think and compare one another to know
Not to defeat but to live in peace and make life glow.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Rasool-Prophet Muhammad; Kurukshetra War was like War at Badr for existence of Morals. Karma bhala Sidhanta- it is the theory that it is our actions and the results of them that leads our life to good or bad.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Denis Mair 17 April 2016

In this poem I hear a voice open to dialogue. This is catholicity in the literal sense: the universal sympathy of a soul aspiring to join the creator. I see you are building a bridge between the Holy War of self-purification and the Kurkshetra War of uplift through karma. Thank you for keeping a place in your poem for Lord Buddha whose fire burns away illusion. The paths pointed out by great teachers never deny friendship among aspiring souls. I wonder how you found my poem titled TRY A LITTLE DIALOGUE? I will read more of your poems to learn about dialogue that is not only external, but also internalized.

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