Our Children
The children that we have become the teachers that will break us into bits Our staunch confrontations with the world pulverize…
Poems
A Rock
A ROCK A rock sat on its rocky pile one day and contemplated its existence “I may have been tossed here” he thought to…
New Islamic Haiku & Commentary
America now has its own “burning Bush,” so will prophets prevail? Are we witnessing Allah’s Justice come round, with our hell-…
Would Joy Pervade Us?
What if the machinery of time were just a little motor somewhere like one of those Erector Set motors behind a little curtain …
Here’s a Row of Innocuous Boxes
(Here’s a poem I came across from my book, Salt Prayers, as I was looking for poems …
Islamic Haiku and commentary
“Muhammad” in clouds… Peace be upon him, and us… we all drift away! The world is a porous place, that in the world of…
What Resists Illusion
The sorcerer commanded the snowman but the snowman kept on melting The swan remembered its ugly duckling childhood and shook i…
Peace be Upon Him
Peace be upon him who appeared among us in this world covered in dust a shining light A speck of that same light is…
Haji Noor Deen reads 3 Classical Chinese poems / Abdal-Hayy reads the English
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The Puzzle
for Malika I…
Golden Bees
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ4RRYNvfC8] Golden bees like drops of honey with wings appear at the open windows of …
Interlude
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBiFxpcws4U] A Bengali prince with gold turban went up to the top of the palace tower …