The Second Ten Days Of Ramadan

Has come the second third now forth:

The moon shall wax before it wanes,

Dissolving mountain sins of earth

In merciful forgiveness rains.

So make the night your begging bowl

And fill it with your burning tears

To beg redemption for your soul

In freedom from despair and fears,

That He who loves forgiving may

Forgive you just as you forgive;

For every self that dies by day

Shall neath the white of badr live.

Ramadan Ajr

An ajr every fast you keep,
An ajr every prayer;
In alms you give, and even sleep,
There's ajr everywhere:

For all your pleas and tears at night,
Your constancy at day,
To hear no evil, see no sight,
To go no wayward way;

Yes, every deed attracts reward,
A measure of what's sown;
All but the fast, for that the Lord
Will make His pleasure known.

The First Ten Days Of Ramadan

It's that time of year again
When the nights are filled with light
Penetrating hearts of men
Standing up to pray at night.

As the crescent waxes, so
Do the mercies from above
In their unabated flow:
Every mercy steeped in  love.

Seek all mercies undeterred,
But the greatest mercy might
Be a supplicating word
In the silence of the night.

Sonnet On The Plague Of Our Times

Of all the things that end of times portend,
I think this bears the hardest on my mind:
The slain know not the reason for their end
And neither does the slayer reason find.
I've heard some lay the blame on food we eat,
While others fault our television time,
Or games of hate we endlessly repeat
Committing every pixel into crime.
Though grave a thing it is to take a life,
Be it an act tyrannical or just,
Where motive dulls the sheen of bloody knife
Or burns the lead that cools the flames of lust,
It's graver when the killer and the killed
Are heedless of the killing that was willed.

"By Him in whose control is my life, this world will not end until that time does not come to pass in which the murderer will not even bother as to why he murdered and neither will the victim know as to why he is being murdered."