SATAN
(To His Advisor)

Thus lies in my hold the world’s pomp an show,
This earth, the Sun and Moon, the Sky’s glow.

Shall see the East and West my game and roar.
As soon I warm up Western nation’s gore.¹

The pontiffs of church, the leaders of State,
My one din’s echoe for them a dread great.

To her a modern world if a fool espies;
This culture’s wine cups will someone break and sea?

The collars to whom the Nature has torn,
The logic of Muzdak² to them cant darn.

How can frighten me the Socialist lads,³
Since long jobless, confused and loafing lads.³

From that nation but I feel a threat grave,
whose heart yet holds hidden embers of crave.

A few of them I espy in this nation yet,
At dawn who take ‘Wuzu’⁴ with tear drops jet.

He knows on whom hidden Times are bright,
The Islam, not Muzdak is the future’s fright.

CHAPTER 2

I know this nation to Quran holds not,
The old craze for wealth is the Momin ‘s thought.

In dark nights of East this point I behold,
The sleeves of Harem Sheikhs no white hand hold.

I am but afraid that modern age needs,
May not force this age to know Prophet’s creed.

Beware! hundred times from the Prophet’s Act,
It guards women honour, makes man perfect.

A death knell to those who made the mar, slave,
It ruled out kingship, no beggary it gave.’

It cleaned the man’s wealth from’ every stain,
It made the rich trustees of wealth’s wrong drain.

No bigger change could be of deeds and thoughts,
This earth owns to Allah, to a king not.

His Law be kept hidden from whole world’s eye,
To my solace Moumin lacks a faith high.

Let him be fastened in metaphysics lone,
In his own meanings of the Koran’s tone.

CHAPTER 3

Whose call God is Great⁵ broke the world spell,
That conscious man’s night why not a bright deli.

Did the Christ died or alive from start⁶?
Are God’s attributes His Part or apart?

Is the coming Christ Hindi Nasir’s dad?
Is he a mujaddid⁷ like the Mary’s lad?

Are God’s words mortal or old like Him hence?
Which sect of the Ummah will have riddance?

Are’nt now enough for Muslims of this age?
His dogmas gods he found in his rummage.⁸

From a practical life keep him away,
Get all his pawns beaten in this nice way.

He’s better a slave upto the dooms day,
Leave the mortal world for others hey-day.

The verse and mysticism suits for his ‘deen’.⁹
Which hides from his eyes life’s vital scene.

I fear from this Ummah lest they awake,
Being his faith’s base, world account he would take.

In prays at dawn keep him rapt¹⁰ and grave.¹¹
Make him zealot¹² fan of tombs and graves.

1. Gore; (in poetry) blood from cut and wound, (chiefly in descriptions of fighting).
2. Muzdak; who introduced a new religion. He was beheaded on the orders of King Nausherwan. He was a great orator and eloquent writer.
3. Fad; (Khabt) a fanciful craze, as full of f. and fancies, or a stamp collecting fad.
4. Wuzu; ablution (as a religious function).
5. Allah-o-Akbar=Takbir=God is Great.
6. From start—added for Rhyme only.
7. Mujaddid; a reformist.
8. Rummage; careful search; upheaval.
9. Deen, faith.
10. Rapt; (adj.) raised to raputres; transported, instrance.
11. Grave, adj., serious.
12. Zealot: fanatic.