Poem: The sweet breeze of Ramadan

Elite is my sentiment,

At the summit of the universe,

Feeling the sweet breeze of Ramadan,

Touching the very core of my soul,

Opening my inner heart,

To fly to the abode of my Creator;

Paradise or Hell,

All become bliss instantly,

For I have devoted myself to Ramadan,

Being true to all its rules,

Being truly Muslim,

Not just on the lips;

Ramadan calls me,

Not to its world of deprivation,

But to taste the sweet elixir of Divine Love,

For verily I feel,

The glorious scent of my Maker,

Who holds me tightly against Him,

Like a beloved father cherishing his son,

Yet the Love of my Creator,

The Fashioner of Life,

And Essence of all creations,

Is more poignant than any temporal human love.

Poem: 'Divine Love'

Divine Love builds up faith,

Even when you are lost and frightened

 it gives you the necessary strength to pursue your goal,

It cures the hardened heart and brightens it with patience,

It brings the essence of unity to a state of devotion,

Divine Love gives true pursuers of truth the true essence of belonging,

It rejects the very stamina of hatred

and pierced the heart with the beauty of forgiveness,

The love devine the treasure of the heart,

When it puts forward its very life as sweet sacrifice

in the path of its Lord and Master,

Nothing is as compared to this true devotion,

Not when the heavens has brought forward this secret as the secret of destiny,

Those who want to achieve this precious station have sacrificed their all for this very cause,

The Lord knows no hatred; He knows only Love,

His Divine Love is in every one of you,

Cherish the gift of the heart which He has made sacred,

Love is devotion; devotion to your Lord;

devotion to your family and devotion to all the people living on the land of the Lord,

'Muhabbah': The Love that Inspires

Muhabbah

A believer must have love (Muhabbah) for Allah and a connection with Him. The Muhabbah (love) or an admiration for someone makes you do everything for the person you admire. The Muhabbah does everything that seems difficult, easy. And as a result, the unthinkable becomes feasible. As a person loves something, he makes efforts to acquire it. If he really likes this thing, then he does not care about time or money. He arrives at a point where he forgets everything. He finds nothing around him (Nothing really matters for him except for the loved one). Only one thing exists for him: it is the thing (or person) that he loves and admires.

See a young man of today who has just reached his 18^th birthday. (When he loves), he loves to such an extent that it becomes unbearable for him to live without the person loved. Without hesitation he leaves the family roof to live with the object of his love/ affection. He leaves his family, his mother, his dad, his brother, his sister, his comfort and even his Deen (religion - Islam) only for the cause of the loved one. He does all this with contentment and joy. If we (Muslims) had this same (kind of) Muhabbah for Allah, then we would never find the Deen (religion - Islam) difficult (to practice). We would have suffered all with joy and contentment only for the love we have for our Rab (Lord - Allah).

The practice of the Deen would then become not only easy but also delicious. The example of the pious personages is before us. They have not hesitated to give up whatever it is that becomes an obstacle for them in their quest of Allah the Almighty. Hazrat Ibrahim (as) has abandoned his kingdom in order to reach Allah the Almighty and to acquire His love (literally: to acquire Allah). If someone can sacrifice his honour, his dignity, his status for a corpse that will die and who is condemned to become dust one day, then why can man (the human race) not  give up everything for Allah Who is Al-Hayy, Al-Qayyoum - Who has existed for all time and whose existence will never stop (that is, His existence has neither beginning nor end). Allah is the One who watches us all the time. He is a Being who is there for us all the time, giving us everything we need. 

Poem: 'In Praise of Allah'

I happen to glance into the piece of flesh which is my heart and

Found the marvellous exalted presence and existence of Allah;

The never-ending relationship which assures

Eternity in Allah for as long as Allah exists;

The sweetness of a camaraderie
which is priceless and untouched by any evil;

The price of this love is found in Allah Himself;

He is the Love which makes the heart pound,

He is the Fashioner of forms and existence;

He is the never-ending light towards fulfilment,

He is fulfilment and tranquillity,

He is my Light, my Love

The marvellous glow of His love has touched my heart,

Such a touch that even an angel cannot accede to,

Such a level of thought that no human has ever witnessed before,

Save those whom my Love has elevated with His precious comprehension.

His Glory surpasses the glories of the deities of man’s imagination and creation,

This understanding is only for those who wish to merge themselves in that light and

Be untouched by anything which may separate the Creator with His subject.