AT Print Issue 20-21

to bless me with closeness and never ending faith
in God’s infinitude
and my unimportance, my impotence
I have his rahma - compassion, grace, and mercy
and I still find myself blocked
weighed down upon by time and obligation
preventing me from giving thanks.
so I fear each night of sleep: had I softened my heart
with his remembrance?
perhaps
I would have remembered Allah better with the opportunity bestowed;
prayer and dua
for the ever infinite mercy he has bestowed upon me.
I pray instead
Allah grants me another chance
to devote another day to his mercy.
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my heart warms
with my brothers and sisters
mother and father sitting close.
as I have the opportunity to be here
as Allah blesses me with another day
in this never ending
test of endless time.
there is strife like a knot,
twisted into the rope of our society.
fraying with damage and deposited dust
and dirt crack as this rope pulls,
tension on either side.
Allah’s mercy is even here
as this rope is held together
may we see the light that shines from the gold of what blessings we have
and the family that remains. what Allah has blessed some with in place of others
yet his mercy is still boundless.
may we be part of the Mercy for those who are not as we
and never may we forget words of remembrance that unite this ummah under the quilt of what is
servitude to our Rabb:
a l h a m d u l i l l a h
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