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I have seen goodness from destiny, my God,
And I live awaiting more goodness still. With my prayer forever surging in my heart, I live with my eyes turned toward Your mercy. For I have been bad from head to toe, While You are the Generous, the Merciful One. If I have sided with anyone, it was with You alone, My hope — to taste Your grace forever. Akrom MALIK
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What Should We Do When Hardship Befalls Us?
Developing Commendable Character Part Two Good advice on this subject has been written, alhamdu lillah. But today it occurred to me that one essential thing had been forgotten. It…
What Should One Do in the Hardest Situations That Befall Us?
Developing Commendable Character 1. Do not speak about a person who was once a friend and has now become an enemy. Because — tomorrow things between you may mend again! and what…
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Perhaps on a cold, yellow autumn day I put forth buds
and spread my palm like a beggar asking for a golden coin. Like a man going off to war who takes death upon his neck,
My age has passed thirty-five by a year,
The chemistry of youth has waned in my frame. Once the body could not hold its fire — it overflowed,
In this world there are many kinds of wonder,
Plain is the not-knowing of many who claim to know. Forever glimpsing the truth all of a sudden,
My God, never make the child of Adam
Base and worthless and ungrateful. The wretches who have clung to Satan
All is peaceful, all is serene,
There is no strife, no corruption seen. But once the crowd of the ignorant comes,
My eyes were blind, were blind completely,
I put my trust in someone I thought great. I called his words both right and true,
We said out loud: let girls be accomplished,
Let them support themselves and never be in need. Let them live free of hardship, merry and carefree,
O heart that longs for the path of the prophets,
O one who dreams of the way of the saints! Know yourself as dead before you die,
If you are in the right, do not be hurt and do not hurt — that is all,
If you are in the right, the Truth will protect you. If you are in the right, take no offense and give no offense — that is all,
At times I feel as if I were left in the grave,
All around is silence, and I am all alone. I lean on You alone, my God,
Each moment that goes by without you is so hard to bear,
At night, without you, the breaking of the dawn is hard to bear. Each minute long as an hour, the hours long as days,
If someone declares his hatred toward you,
Or hurls at you the stone of slander, Do not say “I am pure,” looking at the faultfinder,
If someone has left you, perhaps to you
Some good has come — so stop burning with grief. But those who left, now rid of you,
My eyes were blind, were blind completely,
I put my trust in someone I thought great. I called his words both right and true,
Wherever you may walk, the sea will come,
The face of the earth is wrapped in water whole. Love always comes as twin to toil and pain,
Remembering you, I swallowed blood, alas,
Spitting blood, I passed through days of gloom. My heart in torment turned as black as pitch,
My age has passed thirty-five by a year,
The chemistry of youth has waned in my frame. Once the body could not hold its fire — it overflowed,
All is peaceful, all is serene,
There is no strife, no corruption seen. But once the crowd of the ignorant comes,
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