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The Poem Based on a Verse of Abu Talib Kalim |
Your regard for the ways of the Lord of Yathrib is strange
Your life is exhibiting that you are not a Muslim |
What made heavens contained in your ring’s circle
O Sulaiman! that jewel is lost by your negligence! |
That mark of prostration which used to shine like a star
Your forehead has now become unacquainted with that mark! |
Just look at your actions, do you envisage
That candor whose fearlessness was always wonderful |
Your ancestors’ eye was the thunderbolt for falsehood
The same falsehood is now lodged in your breast |
O negligent one come and inhabit in your abode again
The discerning Kalim is singing on the spiritual Tur |
“You must be subservient to whom you had become rebellious
From wherever you departed like flame, turn back to it” |
Translated by: M.A.K. Khalil |
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