POEM COLLECTION
1. BREEZES
With the name of Allah the All-Kind, the Merciful Forgiver
I begin to praise Him Who lives and dies never
In His hands are everything, all beg from Him
Inside out He invades and commands
No escape is possible from His Law
Even when you think you deny Him though
Make peace then o fool with the King
Before the bells of doom for you ring
Every delay is a usurious debt
Which bankrupts you; please accept
Resisting Him is resisting happiness
It arises from your mind’s pettiness
No escape o dolt from the Grim Reaper
Piety proves in the end the cheaper
Let not world’s false glamour dazzle you
Its false logic tempt as well as puzzle you
From below the waist do not motor
From the path of heart do not detour
Then he gives you both up- and downstairs#
Releases and relieves from all cares
To heart He takes you, happy makes
While your devil only happiness fakes
Forty odd years took to get this Breeze
The false self from the Real out freeze
Forty Rumis are serving me Breezes
Milks and honeys each heart and mind pleases
Listen then what is to come now and then
New breezes of Intimacy for what and when
Memorize, quote, disseminate
Ponder, digest and even ruminate
Rare jewels Spirit mass produces
From the Treasures of Heaven reduces
Glory be o Lord, refresh us with Breezes
O generous, we pray each Thee pleases
2. THE REAL ONE
The Real One makes real
Everything and every deal
Only lies fly outside
Of His warm home site
That home is a mumin’s heart
That is the Divine candle
Lit from oil from Olive tree
Whether East or West it be*
In that home glories are sung
For All-Gracious with bang*
Resonating in all heavens
Is the songs of all our ‘friends’
Day and night they glorify
No fatigue, boredom touching them**
Adoration their day profession
Dreams of angelic procession
Full of Allah from top to toe
Soaked in love without woe
Happy, happy is the servant
He is the unlettered savant
Of the glories of Heaven
Where rules the Real One
3. HUMBLE PLEASE
Fear never departs from your heart if you believe in God
For offending the Beloved is the direst prospect
If you don’t lose sleep at all in this respect
You better not exist, for hell is your lot
Doubt your purity, forget ranks and degrees
Don’t claim having served Him with enough ikhlas
You can’t be worthy of Him if He won’t relent
You need His sheer mercy of the highest class
Prophets tremble, saints faint on His thought
Their faith isn’t perfect unless with doubt
As to ‘Am I right in what I do and think?’
Only then from His Hand they His mercy drink
Pride leave, humble live, stop glaring
Who are you o shadow, o mosquito king
Before you condemn Nimrod throw own crown
Abandon your design for Abraham to burn! (jealousy in religion)
Consider yourself among the liars
Regret your performance as quite wanting
Always doubt others being better than you
So that you keep asking for their prayers
You won’t be perfect my son, never forget
You will always sin whatever you do
Humiliated on earth, humbled in heaven
Only that way is possible for you His mercy to get
4. SONG OF TRUTHFULNESS
Truth wins because it is reality
Put in words with some brevity
Lie is lie, in the end the truth captures it
Like a soap bubble it just ruptures it
Liar buys time with usurious interest
Then pays through his nose from east to west
Loan shark is the Satan, in fact shark of sharks
With your ruin in mind his trade embarks
Never lie, never cheat except to repel evil
In God’s name only and against Devil
Even appearing more pious than you really are
Or knowledgeable- these your way bar
Don’t pretend, be humble, then angels help you
Truthfulness is enough good; lies just melt you
Allah is Real, He is the Truth
With Him are real heaven and earth
The truthful are served by all creation
Because direct to God’s their relation
Serve the Truth and you are served back
Once truth is with you, you nothing lack
5. MEARIJ ILA-SAMA- STAIRWAYS TO HEAVEN
God is the good beginning to all effort, His guidance the only guarantee
For He is in your very best nature from which issues surest warranty
What use is acting from misguidance, from the less good in you?
Ignoring the maternal cry then the sirens woo?
Human trouble erupts from human wrong choice
Taking the wrong turn, pursuing the wrong voice
Come ye to God, ignore the atheist, that ignorant poison-bee
Arrogant in darkness, supposedly fear-free
He boasts of animalness, of objectivity
While being in the pit of full subjectivity
He hates all faith out of fear
Fear of sacrifice from bestial dear
Freedom he wants to indulge all his senses
All he sees through such hedonist lenses
Surely many men of each religion
Who used to come by the legion
Abusing their powers of persuasion
Scared to death, drove to dissuasion
Many men otherwise salvageable
Thereby converting them into a rabble
Hedonism reigns supreme nowadays
People die for taking hedonistic holidays
Theft is rampant, indulged in by even banks and multinationals
The highest educated, most prosperous and most rationals
Why? For there is not in them a shadow of God
But only Mammon, Jezebel and the perverts of Lot
States are big mafias, mafias small states
This fact the whole thing explains and states
Once catapulted away from anchor of God
This is surely mankind’s lot
Each for himself with himself as his own devil
Free, nay in fact duty-bound to commit evil
No wonder taxes soar, services plummet, crime soar
Many a person streets patrol like wild boar
Knife in hand, drugs in other, eyes scanning
Rape, robbery, murder seeking, planning
Music is bible, dance ritual, drugs false paradise
All leading to hell of greatest size
All cheat from top to bottom of society
From cheating they derive their gaiety
Nothing is done almost to relieve poverty
Billions go to conduct wars, false controversy
Disinformation, misinformation, plot and spin
Bribery, blackmail, violence kingpin
Frankenstein scientists out to destroy family
Blurring the difference between John and Emily
From all sides devil egos invading and claiming
Distorting, destroying, bloodying and maiming
Yet in vain are all, God is still in command
Invincible in many hearts, ready to come on demand
In this poem we will call on Him to help us plenty
His enemies to be robbed, made hands empty
Next we begin on our journey of great discovery
Climbing stairways to heaven for recovery
6. THE HEAVEN IN YOU
Man was not made empty, just another animal
One potentially angel, though at first a cannibal
No animal can stoop to what man can do when godless
When he feels an animal, of God remains heedless
But once introduced to the Divine Lights
In his heart are switched on a billion lights
The bulbs were there, the power already
But ignorance was as well, his mind weedy
In their glaring light stairways appear
Climbing to Heaven to stars soar
7. LOVE
Love is the substance of faith, God’s greatest gift
It is the cement of honey healing break and rift
Its tears are sweet, its laughter heaven
It’s the filter of character good man from bad sift
God is the King of Hearts sweetened by love
Which is the medicine- converts hawk to dove
It is thee soul of universe, mercy its daughter
To love believers defer when they to God bow
For love’s sake I fast eating food of heaven
With the ferment of love my bread leaven
My eyes light up expecting the beloved
Whether from direction of Mecca or South Devon
8. OTTOMAN SONGS - TO MISS WORLD
You are a faithless fairy, a gorgeous apparition
Each season you come and go through me
As you go through me you lay may heart to waste
You say good-by hardly after saying hello
What is your intention, to be loved one-sidely?
To be worshipped without being a god?
No, never, you are not worthy of my love,
You are not worth my melancholy!
9. MY SECRET ROSE GARDEN
I smell of roses from an unearthly garden
From a direction geographers do not know
I visit the garden in my heart five times a day
To smell the thornless roses to ground I bow
“Science!” they warn me, they admonish me
“I am fed up with it” I say, “Now let me be!”
I found a new science which encompasses all
Wherein ‘I’ stops and comes in ‘We’ in ‘He’
10. BREEZES FROM THE ROSE GARDEN
1.
As I find all in me, all find me in themselves. An altruistic man is attractive and pleasant to have around for he threatens nobody. What is more, he does not want rewards from anybody because he enjoys his good acts as their own rewards. Have you seen a lover of wild birds feed them for a reward other than the pleasure of the feeding itself? This is how true muslim is. His good motives cause good acts and his acting good is his reward for being good. That is sincerity with Allah at the utmost.
2.
You are what you think and you act as you think. So, if you are doing wrongs first investigate what you have been thinking. Islam seeks to uplift our thoughts so that like space craft we don’t have to compete and and collide with terrestial traffic. Animal competitions are not for us. Uplift your thoughts and see the difference it makes to your life.
11. RAMAZAN
Again Ramazan is with us
Again holy, again wholesome
A short spell of hunger and no fuss
And let come health, let come God’s welcome
My faith put to test, gauntlet run
Into the loving arms of God running begun
By iftar time two lovers meet
Lover and loved same table hit
O Holy One, I love Thee so much
Even that love is Thine gift
Bankrupt yet very rich I am
For in Thy arms our hearts touch
Had others known what secrets we share
What honeys we eat lipless, tongueless
What wines we drink which no shop sells
To forget Thee O Lord no one would dare
12. SUFI SONGS - MY BELOVED IS MY HOME
I was born in you and am reborn every day
I worship You o my love each and every way
Without You I am not and could never be
I can’t find words of thanks except ‘Praise be!’
Swim I do at all times in Your space
Never visiting twice the same place
Time is You, so’s space, in fact Relativity
All celebrate in You their nativity
They are You but You are not them, that is for sure
You only exist, needless, purest of the pure
Turning my face to Your Sun I am light-drenched
For not turning elsewhere all muscles clenched
Because I cannot have enough of You
Your season I seek to sunbathe in
My heart swells like ball to eject a ‘hoo’
So happy is being close to, guess, Who?
13. SUFI SONGS - PURE FOR THE PURE
“Al tayyibina lit-tayyibat, al habithina lil-habithat”
Said Allah in His Book and that is certain fact
”Pure and good for pure and good” it means, you know
Pure and Good is Allah to whom we all bow
Of His purity and goodness He on His friends bestows
Rank after rank, in all heavens their fortune grows
They are beauties, more so than brides and houris
Kindness their light, from their hearts glows
Gardens of Paradise are in their hearts
In them they dwell with all its rewards
To them are attracted all who look for God
And become victims of their love darts
Come then o Haqqani and give us some of Haqq
To your heart’s essence you us attract
Be our guide, from Allah coming
For you such kindness is very becoming