Thursday 15 December 2016

8280 Days


In the light of the night
Rise and fight!
The army that is not in sight
but blinds you from true light
binding you to an awful plight!

Cut with the sword of salutation
upon perfection
The owner of benediction
The mercy of all mercies
The sky of a most illuminant light
The crown of creation
The antidote of damnation
The possessor of praise
Who did the veils of falsehood raise!
The trumpet on Truth’s lips
The author of virtue
The sculptor of humility
The fragrance of all messengers
That blossomed in Time’s infinite garden
The splendour of God!

The slave that gave
Every split moment of his existence
To his Master unto
his noble grave
And Beyond it too he’s still a slave

And what a blessed
path to God hath he paved
For those who desire to be saved
With God’s pleasure on every step engraved
A path that sealed all others

This scented seal must be celebrated!
In beautiful garments of ecstasy
And couplets of supremacy to his Excellency

 Lame is that tongue that refrains
 that ear that has not heard it knows no melody
 that eye that hath not seen it has not seen day light
 And that heart that denies it hath tied a knot with Tragedy

The soul that perishes in his praise
Will in the majestic countenance of its beloved be raised
And from the belly of the spitting fire saved
Where agony and pain is multiplied and replayed

They will be lifted (Those that praise him)
To a lofty height that Al Furqaan hath eloquently explained
A marvellous abode
The rightful retreat of every righteous soul
Where every pleasure and leisure is whole

Celebrate and praise!
He that delivered
the complete Message in 8280 days

Enduring brutal torment and unbearable disgrace
Making servitude to God his only place!
The one unshaken by falsehood’s quake
Revealing truth in every space
until injustice vanished without a trace

He who brought light upon the world’s face
Till ignorance hath had its taste
of a tantalizing truth that will never fade
A Mercy that ices the flames of that bewildering blaze

And here sits a helpless face
Hypnotized by the gimmicks that
My unruled self embrace
To your example a complete disgrace
Of your ways in me I found no trace
My love for you in my heart is somehow misplaced

Yet I yearn to see your blessed face
I never conceal my fondness of you
And at times I pause and ponder over you
Be it little or insignificant
Be you near or be you distant

I know that every seed must some day germinate
I pray that this one grows soon rather than late

Here sits a useless form
Towards your reflection it knows no haste
It flings every millionth of every moment to waste
It has given fool’s gold the chase

And yet I yearn to embrace
you and see your radiant face

My desire to follow your every step
To know you at loves greatest depth
To praise you profusely in the rhyme of poetry
In the charismatic chaos of its melody
And in the calmness of its humming harmony

And at the pinnacle of my longing
I come to know that all my yearning
Can not reflect what is in my heart for you
But if this is all I am able to do
Then this pauper presents to you
An insignificant gift to you

For only your Master to whom you are true
Can praise you in a manner most fitting to you
So may God Bless you and Praise you
In Blessings and Praises that are most fitting to you

And so I look
At he who took
Your smile
A smile worthwhile
And so I look
At he who took
Your meditative gaze
Your gentle eyes

And so I look
At he who took
Your tender ways
What beautiful ways
And so I look
At he who took
Your soft walk
What a wonderful walk

And so I look
At he who took
Your speech
What comforting speech

And so I look
At this Arrow of light
From your bow of truth
Whose tapering tip hit your mark
As he rejuvenated your teachings
with a glowing spark
And so I look
At your sword
An edge of knowledge
That petrified ignorance

And so I look
At a soul that shook
A napping global village
By sound ways of The Greatest Book

A heart of generosity
An unmatched reviver
An image of the receiver
An exceptional leader

A complete teacher
That taught tolerance not terror
That spread peace not war

The Guide to Guidance
The Caller to repentance
The Sultan of God’s Remembrance
Imam Hassan Cisse, overflowing with Brilliance
and remarkable radiance

May he be lifted
To a most honourable station
May he remain a vivid image in History’s contemplation
May his way become the flame
Of every disciples determination

May we inherit his manner of meditation
May his footsteps become ours
Till the promised hour
Though hearts are sour
And saturated with sorrow
At separation from Islam’s Flower
Whose fragrance all will know at the nearing hour
Islam’s over shadowing tower
Whose height all will know at the final hour

Soul’s that follow
Have not forgotten the hour
When deeds will be accounted
Where the lovers will be with the beloved!

O God Bless our Master MUHAMMED
The opener of what was closed
And who is the seal of what has gone before
He who makes the Truth Victorious by the Truth
The guide to Thy straight path
And Bless his household as is due
Immense is his position and grandeur.                               

 “My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be

   questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the secular and religious   levels. It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity . . . It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history.”Michael Hart in ‘The 100, A Ranking of the Most Influential  Persons in History,’ New York, 1978.  (source: http://www.cyberistan.org).

Monday 15 August 2016

Superhero

My Super Hero
Is stronger than
Superman
He's slicker than Spiderman
A better man than Batman
His Heart is bigger than The Hulk's man!

O Man
my Super Hero is the Man
He's not the consensus
Of Pulp Fiction's Stencils and Pencils
He is a be-ing of a
Super Cosmic Conscious
A perfection
That every bodily cell celebrates
And every strand of my soul
Will never cease to marvel at

My Superhero
Got me glowing
At the realisation
That my Creator's Grace is overflowing
I promise you that there is no better feeling than Allah's forgiveness pouring
Upon seeds sown by the seeker seeking

My Superhero
Gave me an antidote
for my Kryptonite
Salaatul Fatihi the light upon light
And now my heart's lips are infinitely lit
With salutations upon
The Creator's Greatest Gift

He showed me Allah's
Greatness unmasked
Time blown in a blast
Of declaration of none
But The First, The Forever Last
Manifestations melted by
The Manifest, Space hid in The Hidden

See how my Superhero
Saved me
From the greatest danger
that could ever reach me
See how my Superhero
Saved me from me

And just as I thought
That traversing the galaxy
Was the greatest thing
That he could do for me
He handed me his Hayba
His Super Power
Another bar
To put in the breakfast
Of every hater
Another lion
With the roar of Sahibul Fayda

Imaam Hassan Cisse!
Your face is a star in the constellation
that guides my contemplation
Your legacy is the light of my life
The beacon that shines bright
Your footsteps
Are fountains of Gnosis
Your Prostration to The Creator
Is a potent pulse of purification
That perfumed every nation
An honour to every direction
You are indeed a clear instruction
From your teacher to creation

Tuesday 26 July 2016

The Den

The Den is deeper
Than the sleep of the cavedin sleeper
Than the grim of the reaper
Than the illusions that whisper

Deeper
Than the depth
Of darkness upon darkness
Than the breath
Marinated in bitterness
And folded in fears
for countless years

The Den defiles
Sanctified smiles
And leaves light lifeless
And life flightless

The Den destroys
The toys
Of little girls and boys
Then takes residence
In the residue of their rotting resistance
Making grown up girls and boys
The play toys
Of Melancholy's mind games

In the Den Matrimony
Is a treasure that never ceases to weep
A reality that hope fails to keep
A marriage of flesh
That contains ever escaping essences
A companionship of functional corpses
Prisoners pinning
to become freed fantasies
And as time trickles the mould thickens
As love counts more casualties
Than the heads
of mass produced chickens

The den is deep
It swallows the souls
Of unsuspecting victims
Sinking them in holes
Far from Reflection's radiant reach
Light years away from the fruits
That truth sets out to teach

The den is deep
As deep as the silence that stones
a dead beat
Deeper than the pulse
That encloses one's be-ing
In the state of a savage beast
An eternity away from
The sacred state of
Submission to the supreme
without retreat

Arid Souls
Clenched hearts
Mindless tongues
With desire for hands
Clenching onto darkness
With consciousness
frothing with forgetfulness

What lush gratefulness
My garden grows
For these feet to have reached
This pleasant path that love bestows
Upon the gems among loveward souls

By the lines of a light
That love lit
My slumber was poured out
And a precious presence poured in:
Praises of a poetic lift
With wings of love
For prophetic light
Illuminating ink
Delightful drink
A Millennia more intense than
The marvel made manifest in a blink

Sacrifice!
Said guidance
The temporal
For the eternal
The eternal
For the Real

So we fell on the sword of rembrance
Of The Owner of Benevolence
An explosion of existence
In an infinite instant

So we rose to smell the rose
Whose sanctified scent
Gives guidance and ascent
The pearl of the poets prose

Then we were lit
By the lavish light
The Beautiful brightness
The lantern that holds a litany of love

Then taken by the hand
By the beloved's one man band
Whose praises for the beloved
Are gorgeous and grand
Celestial sentences
from the love guided hand

Here you see love is alive
Heart beats thrive
With the merriment of a jubilant jive
And a buzzing sweetness that
Can only be found in a bee hive
And lovebirds foster in each other
The sacred five
And brew in their souls
Bewildering love for the beloved
And The Most High
This love is mos fly
For this is only a fractured fraction
Of what awaits this love
In the afterlife
After a lifetime as Husband and wife
Enveloped in each other's essences echoing  Loudly back to their Lord
As the fantasies of their flesh
Find fluorescent fruition
And their hearts harp
Harmoniously on the heap
Of love's harvest
A tip higher than Everest
Souls that will forever find rest
In Love's sacred chamber

This heart prays
To be Lifted to the length of light

by  The Extraordinary Eminence
Of the Exemplary Seal
Of the Prophets(May pace be upon him)
The Master of all Matter
The Supreme Slave of The Maker
The soul in a constant state of ascension
Possessor of accepted intercession
The gem with perfections to
numerous to mention
Muhammad
May pace be upon him

And the excellent axis
The scent of sincere praises
Of the one raised
Imbued in the element of existence
Soaked in his  (Salallahu Alayhi wa salaam's) sweetnes

The seal's seal
Ibn Abbas
The Receptor of the Ruby's
fullest fragrance
The bark of remedial remembrance
Ahmed Tijani
May His Lord be pleased with him

And by the favored overflow
Through whom knowing is made to glow
Love from the beloved's bow
The jugular vein of all the light
That leaps upon the galaxies
From the  Jubilant Jewel of mercy
Carving inch by inch
their treasuries, subtleties and intricacies
The fantastic form
The erudite enlivener
The exemplary inheritor
The flower whose fragrances
never cease to flower
In Absolute awe
Of Muhammad Salallahu
Alayhi wa salaam
The slave
Adorned by Love
With incredible increment
Of love for the beloved
Ebrahim Niasse
May His Lord be pleased with him.

He who had no need to remember Love
For only what is forgotten
Needs to be remembered
And Love was in this heart deeply
Embedded.