The Deluge (Noah)

"The Deluge"

S. Qasim Hasany

 

About fifteen millenniums or more ago,

When the first great human walked erect with ego,

Leaving behind the paradise of mindlessness

And was required to lead a life of sourcefulness.

 

He was linked with the mighty "Ego" of the creation,

And so were, his generation after generation.

They were outsized folk by present standards,

Lived lives not in decades, but in hundreds.

 

Slowly and impreceptably they lost their link with the "Ego".

And were overawed by outward signs of the Ego.

Started prostrating before the rising sun,

Elements of nature, animals, hewen in stone in shapes human.

 

Thereby loosing their first fathers noble qualities,

Acquired evil ways of nudity, fierceness, committing cruelties.

And all other habits of the days of mindlessness,

Till at last they were reverted to total darkness.

 

Oft in centuries some man of ego corrected them a while

But they lapsed again to former ways in a while.

It was now about five or six millenniums past.

That a mighty egoist was raised to wipe their past.

 

He argued, beseeched persuaded to shun their ways.

Recognize their ego, and fully at first father's ways.

Day in and day out the mighty man preached.

Century after century without any result reached.

 

What happened to fuse story heated blocheads.

Is neither a love lyric nor falseful ballads.

Preaching about a millennium was a task tremendous.

Eclipsing great events of wars, victories, buildings stupendous.

 

The multi centenarian mighty man still stout

From his insurgent people decided to tum about

He complained to the "Supreme ego".

God the one That he was overwhelmed, and enemies had won

 

The Almighty God directed him to build an ark

Under his own supervision, with nails and planks.

The arch ruffians and hardened criminals loughed.

"God's man has gone totally mad", they passed remarks.

 

"He had been asking us to stun all our dear deities.

"Wait", "Nasar" "Yauq Suwa and Taghus our guardian mighties.

But we shunted his one God, whome he failed to show

Till our five struck his head a stunning blow"

“His matiness has reached to the stage last

With a few kinsmen and companions outcast.

He is hem to build a very big boat, instead a cat

He failed to convert us, how he will convert a boat into a cart

 

The chiefs pitied him at his mental condition,

Making fun of his fanatic followers condition.

But he warned them in clear terms of a mighty flood,

That will drown them with their Yaghus, Sawa, Nassar and Wadd.

 

At last, when the huge boat was ready to float,

Kins, companions, pairs of domestics, sheep and goat,

And other essentials were loaded in its hold.

The oldest ever-man, Prophet Noah, atop stood bold.

 

There was a crowd, as many had gathered around,

Many still loughed at idea of sailing a boat on ground.

There were many who thought of warning of the flood,

But still clinged to their Yauq, Nassar, Sawa and Wadd.

 

As a last effort to save a pervert son,

He induced him to become an obedient son,

And board on boat as all will drown.

But he refused saying, "I will mount on that hillock brown".

 

Now he stretched his huge and horny hands towards sky,

And in a thundering voice, which echoed in land nearby,

Invoked help of the Supreme Will of the universe,

Cursed to be killed, all worshippers of deities diverse.

 

His voice was still resounding around,

There was commotion in the crowd on ground,

As a great thud of gushing water rose higher and higher,

Bore the Ark on mighty waves higher and higher.

 

Shrieks of drowning men and women filled the air,

The earth vomited water which also poured from the air.

The deluge drowned all, including prophet's son,

But the ark sailed for days, like a ship on ocean.

 

The prophet complained to God for not saving his son,

But was rebuked for interceding for a heathen.

 The water stretched far and wide on surrounding lands,

Covering them with mud, silt and sands.

 

Days after, the downpour stopped from the sky,

And the earth sucked the water by and by.

The Ark touched ground on a high mountain range.

The surviving men and animals had to face a life of change.

 

The deluge had given a bath to the ancient world.

God blessed Noah and his men to live in a washed world,

With His fear and love for human kind,

Wherein pride and passions had to be subject to the mind.