[Poetry corner] Mystical poem: The greatness of Allah

By Cassam Tupsy

Your presence I feel in the tremulous cadence of the river

In the density of the forest when the lofty trees quiver

In the vast ocean, with blue sky and wavering blue sea

An exquisite pleasure I feel, melting my heart with plea

No matter if the trees turn into pen and the sea into ink

Your words will not end but the sea will ultimately shrink

The power you have on everything nonetheless agrees

And subdue before your divine command even the breeze

Some may believe in the concept of wahda – t- ul wajood

While others in their belief accept you as wahd-t- ul mawjood

But the knowledge of the unseen infinitesimal is your property

No rival can claim the right on your supreme highness and majesty

Beneath the sky, the birds and in the constellation, the stars

In the abyss of the sea the fish and multiple sea creatures

Do not refrain from singing the songs of your supremacy

Mountains, hills, flowers of various colours bear testimony

Believers in monotheism and Islam utter ya Samad ya Samad

 The miscreants in polytheism are deprived to say Ahad Ahad

Rewards for the believers high in the heaven are sublime

Belief entrenched in their hearts of your existence is firm