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Poems and Prose Poems

Poems and Prose Poems

Tafseer

Lest people get about in groups and start picking up the Qur'ān to recite Alif-Laam-Meem, or lest people get about in groups and start picking up the Qur'ān more dangerously so to act upon its verses, they started a fire to get people to do literary

Green

Green stands against la société technicienne that abandoned all colours and chose to rather take up the shine of the steel, its machines and of efficiency. Or we could say Green is against the colourless prism of Newton that Technicists placed in the centre of Science, Technology and most importantly

Kampung

A spring of a lamb eager to grow, two days old Her mother refused to milk her I was told We fed her in baby bottles and called her Kekepo, in our village called Kekabu. Large frogs keep you awake Lovely kittens tempt you to laugh Especially during the postures

The Great Journey

As-Sab’ut Tiwāl has three doors Locked with Alif Lām Mīm The third screened with a shining sād Where the Taurāh ends There begins the Zabūr With six doors secured With Alif Lām Rā The fourth with a concealed Mīm The inspired Bee takes us through its homes in the

Hymn on the Qur'ān

The following song on the Qur'ān and its excellence is a du'ā that is found in Shaykh Dr. Thayka Shu'ayb Alim's book al-Munjiyāt. He mentions that it is sung, according to the customs of South India, at Qur'ān gatherings where

Poetry

Poetry is a glass shattering drink too hot to be contained. It is a technique, that sets words to glass shattering music. In the words of T.S.E: Between emotion and imagination. I say, glass-shattering emotion That spills out in patterned rhymes Like dreams, omitted at other times Scattered,

Social Media

Social Media

Clothes worn Not to cover But to reveal What is covered Where only windows are open for the community But the door, only for society When the community enters, it is ignored at best if not visited with hostility But society, always welcome, Is treated with hospitality The Counsellor presiding