Jaihoon’s commemorative poem on Sayyid Shihab, the great son of India. (d. Aug 01 2009)
Hard it is to recall him,
But with tears.
Harder even more to pray,
But with tears.
Never have any other Ship,
Anchored so firmly as his
Never have any other Star,
Sparkled so bright as his.
I can’t blame the one
Who say he’s no more
For, where have they seen
The Treasure in my heart’s ore?
Aug 01 2019. Edit 2024
Love has only one adamant clause: loyalty to the ultimate Beloved, even if it requires the betrayal of human intellect,
Masking their soul-shine behind ordinary forms, God’s lovers wait for the dust to settle to rejoice alone—writes Mujeeb Jaihoon
True faith demands sacrificing intellectual pride and forfeiting logic.
By weighing the count of forgetting against remembering, this poem proves that math always fails once the self dissolves in