LORD, THE CREATOR

LORD, THE CREATOR

S. Qasim Hasany

 

The boundless existence and its immensity,

That stuns man's mental faculty,

And the intriguing time factor,

Poses question: what is minor what is major?

O Lord their creator: Only Thou knows better,

Visible is or imperceptible is greater.

 

And things countless with life or without,

High mountain peaks or deep oceans about,

The power packed atom unseen,

The huge fireball, alternately seen unseen,

From the germs to the huge mammals of the deep,

Million forms of life on the earth sweep.

 

From falling of a flower from its twig,

Or an empires fall as big as that was big,

Be it changing into garden of a faggots fire,

Or splitting of the ocean for a road without a mire.

Be it the sailing of the men of war on lands[1]

Or trampling of the men at lunar rocks and sands.

 

All events past or present, big or small,

A wise will, Thy will in them recall.

And all the wisdom present, and of the past ages,

Spoken or written and preached by sages,

Have gleans of Thy words through messengers,

Hence to what Thou wishes, men are no strangers.

 

But to perceive and divine Thy transcendency,

With all Thy attributes, with might and majesty,

I know that all the great poets talents combined,

And multimeaning words of all the linguas joined,

Will fail to praise and define Thy might,

As Thou art, O God of life and light!

 

Thy praise is beyond the powers of Djins,

Or even of multi winged angels, their kins.

Yet it was left for that bare footed goatherd,

To receive Thy picture as drawn by Thy word,

And to teach how Thou shalt be praised,

As from goatherd to leader of nations he was raised!

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[1] Refers to Turkish war ships being dragged overland to be launched into closed water front of Constantinople at its capture by Sultan Muhammad Fateh in 1453