Wednesday, 24 July 2024

A First Ghazal A Last ؎


When you're dead tired of the long wait

looking up at the sky carrying the weight


The seagull was soaring through doubts

floating on gales in my everlasting clouds


Drops of dew glistened on her rose of flesh

birth, growing out of earth's innermost dress 


Planet blue this beacon for those who travel

universes He created ancient spirit to unravel


Who is this Hasan this sheikh spelled Hassan

thought of, and by, himself willful as a brahman


Was it drought that'd cracked all soil in this heat 

like a mirror hit by the bullet of that soul in a beat


It never is your fault is it, that's always your shield

it's hers, his, theirs, but in or after life you will yield


And finally He who need no son adopted one to tell

a strange child who cursed and loved a forever rebel



© 2024-07-24



Note.

To quote revered Shams - i - Tabrizi (translation by W.C. Chittick): 'If someone passes by the Quran after he has come to know the Speech, he will not be in narrowness, because, before he found the Quran, he had found spaciousness. He knows how to explain the Quran.'




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