The love-henna designed hearts of God are aligned towards Him despite the lures of this deceptive world, writes Mujeeb Jaihoon
Why do you keep losing things
Hey, the Dove blessed with noble wings?
What keeps your mind so occupied
Your own senses have you defied?
So alien are the directions
Whereto you walk
How many doors
Will you wrongly knock?
Hey friend, isn’t this world
Of any merit-
Everything here
You indifferently forget?
Tell me,
Hey Prized Dream!
So ‘selfishly’ dissolved are you
In ‘My Him’
Anything worldly
You consider dim
To Him your heart’s compass turn
When to the devil’s fire do all run
Share with me
O Him-colored Rose!
With which henna
Have you designed
A heart towards Him
Always aligned?
Your heart’s fort is built
So sweetly secure
With the merciful bricks
Of the Almighty’s Fear
Reveal to me,
Hey benevolent friend!
Teach me something of your skill
Thereafter me you may readily kill
Lord knows where my words lead
Those who this tale eagerly read
I shall better put the lid
Over my silly heart
Else I shall again be tried
For inciting the poetic riot!
May 17 2003. Edit March 2023
