ASIATIC, VOLUME 2, NUMBER 2, DECEMBER 2008
Asiatic, Vol. 2, No. 2, December 2008
Just Bestower
Sayyid Mohamed Ajmal Abdul Razak Al-Aidrus1 International Islamic University Malaysia
Eye the universe from a hand span away, and watch galaxies to the edges stray, Behold the wisdom of the pensive seer,
Whose reason and understanding his heart tear.
Matter on matter, Shall we fathom forever
Or embrace the whole and the particular?
With every realisation His Grandeur fear.
Between sighs and shivers, Hopes and prayers,
Through supplications and whispers, His Enormity appears.
Dawn and Dusk cast a common shade, Though twilights always at a distance fade.
The waking and setting of a serene hue, Of crimson heavens that the sun slew.
Our anguish and suffering the world abjure, Our struggles and battles an insignificant blur.
Death visits with indifferent regularity, And unannounced whisks us to eternity.
The tyrants rule with fanciful flight,
Their dictates enforced with shameless blight, Eternal damnation awaits their presence, To the victims the spoils of patience.
1Sayyid Mohamed Ajmal Abdul Razak Al-Aidrus is currently a Professor at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, International Islamic University Malaysia. He earned his doctorate in American Literature from Ball State University, USA, in 1993. He is the author of Blue Emotions and Other Poems, published in 1998.
Mohamed Ajmal B. Abdul Razak Al-Aidrus
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The past that was won was through slumber lost.
The present lumbers on at our cumulative cost.
The future formless at a distance shimmer, Our hope is fashioned in gold and silver.
On footprints of the past we build our resolve, On substantive dreams we build our cause, In East and West will crest the tide,
Of the faithful voices that rise with pride.
So awake and prosper with renewed jubilation, Complete your journeys with hearty exultation, And await the aid of the Just Bestower,
Rejoice in the love of the eager Pardoner.
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