You want something to be yours, and yet you make no effort to own it
You don't like what you have and yet you are holding unto it
By ourselves we walk into a twisted and confusing situation
Then we run around...
It was beyond her imagination that I could prefer her for a consort. She knew how deep my involvement in da'wah was, and the kind of a lady that befitted a person of my religious status, hence her worry...
Hey you soul, the body guest,
Your duty in the body is the best,
To all beings there is a quest,
When the soul quits, we face the next.
Tell the rich; those with affluence,
And the poor; those without opulence,
The pretties and those...
Iya Ologi - I Am Afraid
"Iya ologi", I called out to her
"Ẹ kaaro sir" said she to me
The voice and greeting led me back to the days
Iya ologi would greet my father
Those days before he was bathed with dust
So,...
As the heart moves to
the rhythm of love, sweeping
away all other thoughts
and distilling every other
Sentiments.
Make it Halal! Make it Halal! Says a voice from afar!
Even with the lustful
thought that stays as
the shadow of love,
leaving a niggling
disturbing doubts with
sounds like...
OH ALLAH!
Oh! In your hands we put all our affairs
for indeed with Your guidance
You save us from the unknown.
OH ALLAH!
Bestow upon us Your unmeasurable
Rahmah for in Your hands is all
good and You our Rabb is
over all things.
OH ALLAH!
We seek...
When I die, but
I can still feel an ant crawl on my skin
Hear the hands of the clock as it ticks.
If I could still distinguish between beef and cow skin.
Hear babies cry and cock crows.
Tell the difference between caps...
by H. O. ADENUGA
Praise be to Allah who has created men and Jin
Glory be to He who created them mainly for Deen,
Sent down prophets and messengers, Muhammad, being the last Prophet
The Deen Pro who...
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Have a reflection upon your very essence
Love of the world hands just a dire sentence
And wrath to the esteemed viceroy on earth
Only in Allah’s obedience lies the true worth
His pleasure the...
Looking down into the wavy ocean.
Crossing over the railings of the bridge
Drenched, in my ocean of tears
Confused, to proceed or not
Hey! thou ungrateful!
Thou thinkest Allah despises you? ,
Alas! You thought to hang on the wire,
Are your deeds enough to...
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