Come And Teach Me, I Cried In My Heart Poem by Mohammad Younus

Come and teach me, I cried in my heart...
...while in the midday I was crossing the Dal lake...
...on the small wooden passenger boat;
A kangri filled with burning charcoal and a simple hukka...
...before that old man,
He was the murshid I was looking for to be my guru,
He rolled up his fire red swollen eyes, and held my hand,
Then he said to me, 'I could teach you with my divine power;
You will have to harness your own power of intellect...
...that God has invested in you',
And he then in a moment rolled his mystic eyes down.

In the heat of that midsummer day...
I returned to my home fighting my crooked thoughts;
I was pondering over what my murshid had told me...
...about my divine power;
Can I really have that much power that would help me...
...spring out knowledge and wisdom from my souls depths?
A satanic idea occured to me:
'I can buy knowledge and wisdome with some coins of gold',
I murmered to myself, 'I will hire some other teacher, and...
...pay him the price for his teaching';
My wealth availed me not, the false gurus only robbed me...
...of my money;
I dropped my coins one by one in the Dal lake, and went bak...
...to my murshid with sincere repentance,

It was evening, murshid was sitting under a willow tree,
He greeted me with a spiritual smile, and said in a loving voice,
'I will teach you with a smile. I love your quest for mystic knowledge'
My face paled and my eyes melted into tears,
My murshid and I were alone into the dark.
His eyes glistened with mystic light, and he looked into my eyes,
The light waves gushed out of his eyes forming a spiritual aura,
I raised my head and in a shaking voice said to my murshid, ,
'I need nothing except this holy light'
Then, I entered into a covenant with my murshid to follow him...
...in my spiritual journey,
Now I realise it was the same covenant that I had made...
...with my lord in preternity,
My murshid only reminded me that ancient covenant...
...and said to me ' Fulfill thy promise'.

Mykoul