Soon

Soon

Our life on earth gets shorter with each heartbeat

Then it'll be too late that hearts do meet

When our minds are closed so too a door

A door of opportunity for us love to restore

With  time we do forget what once was something

How we cast aside the good without even blinking

When the caller comes life from our body depart

There'll be no tears for hard was the heart

But there'll be a time we'll meet our Lord

Life has ended soon we'll see what we scored

All our deeds weighing heavily on the good scale

Then one add deed and we that day fail

Yet few ponder even while the information is clear

Isn't it  about bonds and all we hold dear

Goodbye my friend

Goodbye my friend it's hard not to cry
But the contentment with Allah's decree we can't deny

Too soon is only for our earthly desire
Your life's fulfilment is what we admire

Strange how we met before you tied the knot
Your friendship in some way found in my heart a spot

Not always close in person but not distant in thought
Many things spoken and unspoken me you taught

And even now in death your fate is a reminder
Of your gentle character and no one kinder

As people gathered to pray and pay their respects
For sure it's prayers our Lord never rejects

Yes, we met at a time you took a bride
Eventually you took my choice of car as a ride

But your studious nature made you fairly well-read
And follow your example I can't tread

But in your children you leave behind those with love
For a father who treated everybody with kid glove

A wife so proud of having been your wife
For many came too soon the end of your life.

Farewell my friend as you journey to a world beyond
May Allah grant that we meet in paradise at the pond.

Eternal Love

Eternal Love

In true relationships a man and a woman do not a couple make

Except that they share a bond that they will not easily forsake

With the utmost sincerity they pledge their eternal love to each other

With ups and downs, but little do life's obstacles their relationship do bother

Something you will notice is that both are doing their best to see the other happy

Tiredness and even some illness will make neither one to the other snappy

We all know that no one is perfect and it is the faults we must overlook

Except our own we address that one day we can happily say we forsook

 

So old we grow together remembering especially every good time

The graciousness with which we live will make even our waddle then so sublime

So when we said our vows it certainly did not include "till death do us part"

Because in paradise we will meet and that I believe with all my heart

I will miss you

 I dedicate the poem below to a dear friend, Faadiel Nordien (1954 - 2014). One only truly appreciates a person when they are no longer there. But, allow me to say a few words which is a dedication to him and I say this with all love and respect.

I pray that Almighty Allah showers him with His mercy and grant him a lofty place in Paradise - Aameen 

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I will miss you

People celebrate anniversaries in so many different ways

 Today we celebrate the anniversary of our friendship

 Along the years you taught me much so I sing your praise

 Simple, down to earth, on your shoulder was never a chip
 

 But one quickly learns about you, the prankster and joker

 Quick-witted and subtle you were in your humour

 Causing red faces while straight-faced you were as if a game of poker

 Many a time most were caught while likely in a stupor

 

 You taught me without fear of me eclipsing you in ambition

 Rather you were to most a mentor and a friend

Upon reflection, no doubt you quietly bore pain and rejection

 This clearly did not stop you from your normal trend

 

 So many years have passed since we first did meet

 And our Lord knows best why He chose this day

 That our friendship on this earth must be complete

 You have left for greener pastures while we do stay

 

 Never a goodbye to a friend but rather farewell, so long

 I have not met a person but from him a lesson I did draw

 Perhaps about you I should write a book of lessons so strong

 I remember the day we met but now in this world I will see you no more

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#faadielnordien #mentor #prankster #anniversary

Atheism

In the name of Allah, Most Merciful, the Especially Merciful

Can anyone prove there is no God? On what basis does anyone say there is no God? What is life all about if there is no God? Are there then really morals and values if there is no God? Who made up these values and morals by which we live?

Is the degradation of the value system because people are denying the existence of God?

Are people too lazy, perhaps too selfish, too distracted to accept God's rights over us?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism  - seems that nobody is really sure ... but do they not believe in anything???

Atheism is a cop-out. God has challenged these so-called atheists to prove their theories, but rather all they do is deny.

Can any atheist say that they absolutely never use a word that may perhaps depict God or a higher being?

God is in no need to prove anything - He does as He will - but He has given us enough evidence to believe and for those who believe for them to further strengthen their faith

It is difficult to argue with an atheist since they have little idea what they are supposed to believing.

Every person is born pure - yet their parents/guardians have an influence in their formative years. But it is this purity with which we are all born that recognises our Creator except that through our own misdeeds (which results in a cloud over our thinking and our hearts) we seldom recognise the Truth and our Creator's rights over us.

The question is simply: If those who don’t believe in God, i.e. atheists, are wrong and by extension those who believe in an unseen creator, God, and therefore also believe in a  paradise, if those people are right – will you not regret missing out on the real life (in the hereafter)?
On the converse, assuming the atheist is right and there no God, well then we both equal when we die. We are just dead – right?
The question therefore remains – are you so absolutely sure you are so right that you will risk the big prize? You are comfortable playing “Russian roulette” and you do not perspire one bit. You have insurance on your car and house and you even life assurance (for the benefit of others) – but you refuse real insurance?

For the atheist, it is a cop out that they refuse to think about it and are irritated by those who remind them.

Believe it - there is a God!

My Mother

Blessed am I that you have been chosen as my mother

With every action with love you do smother

How is it that even though with the difficulty that you bore me

Not once did you ask of me not the slightest of fee

No doubt strict you were and never short of a rule

But learn I had to as certainly you were to me a school

Today you have reached yet another milestone

And still an opportunity for my disobedience to atone

Now, My Lord knows, how I wish to you I was an ideal son

So I offer to make amends and pray you reach a ton

And judging by your good health I pray it’s really so

Having you is like having a river of blessing that flow

I say these words being fortunate still to have a mother

And not a chance that I could ever swop you for another

As much as you have done for me I have a request

Since by my Lord the prayer of a mother is always blessed

Please, o please forgive me for whatever I did that made you sad

And I urge you pray to our Lord that He erases all my bad

In turn, daily with every opportunity, I continue to pray

That ultimately that you be granted paradise as a place to stay

Before then that He grants you good health and long life

Filled with much happiness and not an iota of strife

Mom, just for being Mom, how can I ever thank you

Mom I love you, I do I do I really really do

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The poet said: “The mother is a school: if you prepare her properly, you will prepare an entire people of good character, The mother is the first teacher, foremost among them, and the best of teachers.”

Diwan Hafiz Ibrahim, 282. Published by Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyyah.

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She will forever be in my heart

She will forever be in my heart

A child looks bemused at all that is before her

Why is it that at my home all these people gather

Some faces are strange, yet others I know

The movement of people is a constant flow

Many teary-eyed murmur a prayer

This really looks like people who care

I need to make sense of all that is going on

And where, o where, has my mommy gone

There she is, so quietly she is lying

While some around her I can hear crying

It is so not normal a place for a bed

And see how some people kiss her on her head

They are calling for me to do the same

I know for sure this is not a game.

More prayers and then she is carried out

I have some idea now what this is about

Today my mommy has moved house

For now my daddy will be without a spouse

As she is hoisted and placed on the cart

I know she will forever be in my heart

O Allah I know you have taken my mommy away

Grant Paradise for her as a place to stay