The Love-Scale Imbalance

The wisdom behind the Holy Quran, despite being revealed to the Holy Prophet, aplenty with tales of earlier Prophets but very less about him.

Time and again doubts loom,
Thoughtful flowers, too, bloom.

Mysteries of love provoke,
Questions rush without knock.

‘Verses Of Musa’s and Isa’s
Tales plenty.
But of Mustafa’s-
Not even scanty.

Pages on Bethlehem
And Babylon.
Of Medina and Makkah,
But unknown?

Why this imbalance
On the Love-scale?
Why make the lover’s
Face pale?

What is the basis
For this bias?
What lesson to take
For the pious?’

Came the reply,

‘Drops of few verses
And chapters will not suffice;
His Beloved’s praises
Shall consume oceans seven.

HE set aside
A separate stream
Of knowledge:
Books upon books
Are written
On his life-age.

The Holy Book is filled
With His speech alone.
But preserved is even
The Beloved’s silence’.

Sep 1, 2014. Edit July 2024