“The trumpet’s echo
damp shoulders, hips, knees meet i
only see my feet”
~ zaahidah
“That Day, everyone will follow [the call of] the Caller [with] no deviation, and [all] voices will be humbled before the Most Merciful, so you will not hear except the tramp of their feet (as they march).” [Qur’aan 20:108]
“lifeblood in a tube
cylindrical resistance
needles through cement”
~ zaahida
“And hold firm to the rope of Allah” [3:107]
a standing Syrian minaret- where the call to prayer is sounded
“metallic skylines
gun powdered towers over
thrown by minarets”
~ zaahidah
To my beloved brothers and sisters in bloodshed.
“Eyelashes collide
Adrenaline lust for a
Corpse awaiting dust”
~ zaahida
Nigel Rolfe
Dust In Face (2008)
soliloquy
image credit: http://www.luxosophy.com
whispers of the accursed one overcome you in ways subliminal,
Death times three: out of earth, in the grave and after The Day or Regret.
Your body lifeless, vulnerable – malleable to One Omnipresent.
charity
photo credits – plainmuslimah
Let the Holy Quran be the rope to our lives
“Spring helps intertwine ayah fuses with the rooh blooming iman noor” ~zaheedah Key Ayah – Arabic word for verse/sign. Rooh – Arabic word for soul Iman -Arabic word for faith Noor – Arabic word for light/illuminationAl-Kauthar, the fountain of Paradise that is unlike anything our eyes have ever seen. We hope, if Allah wills, to be of those who drink of this pearl hugged fountain.
“Sweet abundant floods parched souls desire a quench yet free-will hinders” ~zaheedah
“a winter whisper
fleeting moments do just that
faces wither on”
~ zaheedah
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