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Muslimiya
3 years 93 days ago
On the day that paper clips and filesAnd memos snowed upon a cityI opened an unfamiliar bookTo see what had brought that storm
Each night I brushed back dreamsBy turning pages of profundityTo learn what had placed deathIn the eyes of passport photos
The heavens opened forForty days within my mind andSoul in a Noah’s flood ofConfusing certainties
The willing dead were absent inEvery word but my forty daysLeft greater questions buoyantAnd curiosity unvanquished
I sailed twenty timesIn seven years throughSurah seas of calm swellsPushed by winds of conscience
Twenty times I charted theirDepths – truly Pacific –Before I knew that IKnew nothing
When tranquil winds liftedLa ilaha illallah I heard a softMuhammadur RasulullahSlip without thought from my lips
A book read twenty times askedWhen I would embrace its truthAnd in a small stillness I repliedNow oh Lord, Now
—Joel Hayward, Splitting the Moon: A Collection of Islamic Poetry
mashallah thank you
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