Keep Your Pledge Poem by Mohammad Younus

Keep your promise, to be an intimate friend of your Lord;
If you break your promise, you'll be a stranger to your lord;
Why do you fall in love with earthly ephemeral beauty?
What has befallen thee?
In the center of His creation, God made you a dutiful servant;
He created you in the best form, and blew of his spirit into thee;
This is the subtle thing that Lord has vested in thee;
From His lips comes a sweet voice like from a reed:
From all the worldly temptations you must flee!
To return to your eternal home, your goal must be!
The eight heavens with all luxuries your urge must not be!
To be a prisoner of love, from both the worlds, you must be free!
By your coming near to the forbidden tree...
...you had lost your divine ecstasy,
Yet your love to get back to your essence...
...flourished here by paying that ruinous fee;
O man! for the pain of being turned out of paradise do not plead!
For this was willed for your test of love...
...by the Lord of eternity;
O man! don't fall in the snares of nafs - the Satan of magic and fantasy!
Has your Lord not taken a pledge from thee?
Remember the verse revealed by Him in His book - to remind thee:
'Did I not enjoin upon you, O children of Adam, that you not worship Satan -
[for] indeed, he is to you an open enemy.'

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