A Prayer to Allah (Ghazal)
I decided to write a second ghazal as a creative response. I did enjoy the process of writing the ghazal project, and I thought I could write another one. Here it is;
A Prayer to Allah
With this precious ink and pen,
Let me praise you with a loving heart.
With Muhammad as your Messenger,
Let me live with a submitting heart.
With a past full of pain and misery,
Let me live with a forgiving heart.
With a life full of trials and temptations,
Let me not live with a misgiving heart.
With a world full of underprivileged,
Let me live with a giving heart.
In this 5-couplet prayerful poem, I touch on a couple of themes we did in class: “Pillars of Islam” (Shahadah– professing Muhammad as God’s messenger, Zakat -practice of charitable giving by Muslims), “Divine Love” (Ishq), “Monotheism”(-belief in only one God, Allah). I chose “Heart” as the poem’s radif; this is meant to symbolize the emotional nature of the poem.