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
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
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
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
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