Poem: The Wine We Love
February 4, 2008 by danielabdalhayymoore
THE WINE WE LOVE
The wine we love is the wine of the spirit
The wine we avoid is the wine of the body
Though the wine of the body lead to spiritual bliss
its dregs and bitters are magical temptation
Shattering the glass is the way to the pure wine
though the glass itself is the wine and the
wine itself the glass
and the lips that sip are also the blesséd drink
that we think by simply sipping we’ll be
able to drink
And we drown in the world of what is
always drunkenly around us
whose otherworldly bubbles of light always
drunkenly surround us
11/25/2007 (from The Fire Eater’s Lunchbreak — in progress)
Asalamu’alaikum dear brother. MashAllah: ) Allah give you infinite inspiration Insha-Allah.
Is it for the wine that body and spirit intertwine?
Or is betwixt the two decreed a sign, subtly fine?
Maybe tis the Cup-bearer it seeks to define?
A design pointing to the Divine
May the tavern be our shrine, O brother of mine
Who sings in sign, amidst the mountains in line
Accompanied by the Falcon fine
Soaring to the Divine
Our heart hears your reply
so eloquently stated
from Whose central Eye
Light’s poured unabated
Assalaamu ‘Alaikum Wa Rahmat’Allahe ta’ala wa barakaatuhu
Jazak’Allah for the beautiful words symphonied into verse…May Allah grant you from His Cup, Ameen.
May we all thrist after and attain this wine…
True, so true, Divine is The wine
Mature, benign, meticulous, refined
But, whence-forth springs this cup sublime?
Vineyards of Cairo? banks of the Rheine?
Nay, wonderous the Origin, so hidden behind
Veils o’ignorance, read by the blind
Blind from staring to the Sun, we decline
To witness the Majesty, we incessantly pine
And descends the word, from the Bearer, Divine
“Ask what you crave, O Servant of Mine’*
“Oh Master, My Lord, this Ummah of Mine,
Give, to drink, the Cup from Your Vine”
* (saw)
Wassalaam,
Your brother in Islam
MuslimSunrise
Such a beautiful responses from nasqh and sirajul.
May this additional lines spark the wine into flames !
“Love is a flame that burns
away all that is not Allah.”
Love is a Beautiful and Divine
that Allah has blessed us all with.
Love is what keeps
the Universe in motion,
it keeps the world turning, and
it’s what circulates in our blood.
The essence of our Creation is Love.