Our existence was watered by their persistence.
They showed us the way..
So miraculously we attain
A light that eradicates our pain;
Progression in faith, comes from suppression within
They taught us.
They fought for us.
They brought us..
A miracle.
So we walk on water after they walked on hot coal
Because of the miracle of their teachings and
How it brought us to the ocean of knowledge..
We drink only what they passed on
In that cup..
As it got passed down
No sip diminished its content
Only
Spread it through fountains
But it’s constituent molecules always H 2 O
As the purity in that knowledge never changed.
Only came in different states to different states
So it steamed across the middle east and Asia
And trickled through lakes and then rivers down Africa
In liquid form to a land that absorbed without even being told to..
And iced its way across Alaskan lands and pounded the West and Europe with a
1400 year old hand that slapped
Sleeping people
As we know water wakes
Sleepers without shaking them.
They walked on hot coal for an eternity of peace.
But we never learn,
Thinking that to be deceased is the biggest ease.
The earth in no need of volcano’s
Because all they spoke were jewels.
We call ourselves wives of the mu’minoon,
Thinking we stand anything next to the hoor,
We call ourselves ‘Slaves of Allah’
Whilst they call themselves ‘SLAVES OF ALLAH’
They treasured beauty
Whilst we enslave young girls
To be the ideal cutey.
They wore the hijab, whilst we say we wear the hijab.
Because in a corrupt society in the media what bleeds - leads..
But they were from a time where they lead and then bled..
A time where the sword spoke louder than words.
But we are stuck in a zone where the sharpest sword is the tongue
Not fighting in alliance with the brethren,
Only lying and spreading deception as the bread-winners are always losing it,
Can’t feed their baby ‘cus they’re having children not from their choosing it,
They were from an era where the pill was unheard of,
But the choice was in their loins,
And Allah knows, they raised Lions.
Ferocious fighters, defending the deen,
But with their wives
Soft, like matured dandelions..
Their babies raised and weaned on the concept of jihad,
Human torches Allah placed for us to be guided on the suraatul mustaqeem.
Their existence so beautiful I can only see them in my dreams.
I feel their truth, so warm like the sun’s light beams,
So when I practice I get from cold to warm,
Then getting warmer, and warmer, and then I get hot..
As I’m getting closer I can feel their light beams until my skin
Becomes receptive of their heat..
Makes me sweat.. as I remember the akhira..
Until their light rays make me see life through a summer haze,
eyes squinting because of the brightness
so all I see is a lifetime consisting of a limited number of days.
Makes me squint so I become oblivious to the world’s latest craze,
Iphones and kindle-fires
Make me remember the kindled fire
So I fall to praise..
The way my predecessors taught me to praise.
Their righteousness at a level no ordinary man can attain,
But still attainable if we were so steadfast, in faith and not fame..
In not chasing sins, stuck to us like ink stains..
But can be separated with spiritual chromatography.
They were there to give his heart solace,
Their sole purpose to worship..
Like us..
But their ranks ever high
Their faith like rocks
Beating
Against satan’s work,
Invasions fought against in
Wars against the jahiliyya days
As bears tried to claw their way in to demolish a honey-like faith,
Bee stings is all they got..
As the sahaaba stood like rocks.
Making history..
Fighting these grizzly bears
With goldilocks
As gold visions from a God so forgiving
Was enough to make their hearts straight again..
Not bent by the world’s hammer
Instead it beat their ego down
So with humility they sought piety with their body on the ground
Constantly remembering their mother earth whose womb
They would return to when buried under the ground
To the clay they were moulded from
Never forgetting the hand that moulded them..
They planted the roots,
So you, me and kunte kinte could eat from the fruits
Of their toils and efforts
As they stood like giants in
Scorching desserts.
Fighting for a deen so deep,
Pennies would fall but never drop,
If you heard the call to prayer echoing .. it would never stop..
They fought for us,
They opened doors for us
But we’re so foolish we’re trying to get out through windows,
Not realizing that will never bear our sins for us,
That curtains and shutters bar our souls in us..
We can only aspire to be as great as them.
So for the time being
Let’s raise our kites to a level as high as them.
Then maybe Allah will honour us as knights among them.
So now I pray
For the honour of greeting them.
Peace Be Upon them.