Syed V. Ahamed - The Symphony

 

 

 Religion and Philosophy

 The Symphony

 Collected Poems

 

 

 


  

The praise of Almighty and the practice of His Religion do    not need a    language or a script.  All the chanting is indeed    one Symphony.    

    

Rhythm Of an Eternal Symphony

 

At the Dawn

 

                                O! Let the saint rumble on and on    

                               And let time wash falsehood to be gone          

                             Words live longer than any maps ever drawn                  

                           Who can stop the brightness at the dawn?          

 

Microbes and Men

 

Microbe to man, “So highly evolved,”                  

 Man to microbe, “Still a mystery unresolved”                  

From every photon to every sun sleepily involved                   

Thus remains One Single Mystery deeply convolved.                  

 

 

A Saga of Space and Time

 

Space to time, “c  a formidable velocity,”                 

Time to space, “No longer a viable reality,”                 

Until both approach the bounds of rationality                 

To find infinity and eternity had become Unity.                

 

A cobweb of thoughts carrying the genes of immortality                

Blown far onto the shores of human rationality …               

A sunrise of elegance showering rays of divinity               

Born deep inside the womb of spiritual dignity…              

A supplication of love reciting the verses of purity              

Begun long ago as a melody in the songs of perpetuity              

Blending Thought, Elegance and Love into One Almighty.              

 

 

A Tale of Two Faces

 

A window of life with many panes of tainted deeds               

To see the rewards of a few saints with pious needs              

With the Passion of Prophets that righteously breeds              

The divine evolution of a soul that constantly heeds…             

To see retributions for those with many misdeeds              

Burning like the Rings of Fire amidst deadly weeds              

As beauty and beast from the same genetic seeds.              

 

 

Who Deeply Craves

 

Through the rumbling of the ocean waves            

I heard a voice from the mountain caves            

“It is Me, your soul who deeply craves            

For your Love of One Who saves!”           

 

 

A Snapshot of Eternity

 

Man to Almighty, “In You I see Infinity,”           

Almighty to man, “In you lives My Identity,”           

Before infinitesimal till after infinity is One Entity           

Like a moment is a snapshot of eternity.          

 

 

It is not for me, I swear

 

O! Let him babble, see if I care

Even if it is close as the clothes I wear

It is not for me, I swear

To watch truth as reality burning as a flare!
 

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Kursi

Kursi of Lord

Kursi of the Only Lord

In front of the Kursi of the Lord

Angels and prophets in deep accord

Praying for the Mercy of a holy reward

To walk a Straight Path deep down a fjord

Through a world where the ways are charred

For those who seek the melody of the divine chord

Men of Faith! Remember your deeds are your holy record

….. Till life is itself the long drawn cord

 

Thus drifts the mind day after day almost drawn in a concord

 

…….. Or till chaos leads to deep discord

      Men of Shame! Remember your deeds are your ugly record

Companions of evil who jive with a deadly chord

To the end of life with sin burned and charred

And keep rejecting the Path out of the fjord

Seeking this world and its sexy reward

Life of death as death of life in accord

A fiery saga for a demonic lord

A demonic lord

A demon

Damn

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Stars of the Seven Skies

 

-- (1)  --

Stars of the sky over the holy saints in orbit         

Around the Shrine of Faith that dawns bit by bit         

Through a long night of sleep that fights to submit         

The evil to good during this world of a long transit.         

 

-- (2) –

Stars of the sky over the short passages of time        

Through the Shrine in Peace as the angels rhyme        

The Praise of Allah and His Prophet with the chime        

 That blends the heartbeat in the body of clay and lime.        

 

--(3) --

Stars of the sky over diamonds and pearls        

For every saint to walk barefoot as the life hurls        

Pains and sorrows as sleeping beauties in shapeless curls        

And suddenly see the bright sunlight that only Faith unfurls.        

 

-- (4) --

Stars of the sky over all the holy Prophets        

Who have taught the Scripture and its alphabets        

To live as humans in spite of the Evil one who abates        

Their disciples to slay the virtue and win all the evil bets.        

 

-- (5) --

Stars of the sky over the Sublime tree         

In Prostration to the Lord Almighty and Free         

Creator of time, space, light and creations that decree         

Whatever man ever does should he even strongly disagree.         

 

-- (6) --

Stars of the sky over the bridge of time and space        

That let the soul cross life and death with a solemn face        

When the deeds shall be carried in every detail none too scarce        

At a Door of Eternity when clay turns to light or to fire for its place.       

 

-- (7) --

Stars for the Seventh Sky as they tremble        

In Presence of Almighty as they gather to assemble        

None may dare to say even a word that will resemble        

Velocities of thought or orbits of light, lest they all crumble.        

 

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 Lonely thoughts that stall and words that call        

To a soul wandering where many tumble into a fall        

To the ways of the world never to get up and stand up tall        

And walk towards the bright sunshine that says it all             

“Men of Faith! Hold on to your faith and enter a divine stall        

Unlike many lives blown away like leaves in the Fall        

Except those who carry virtues none too small.”        

 

Syed Ahamed

2003-2004