Voice Of Conscience Poem by Mohammad Younus

What's new? 'I tell you, nothing whatsoever.'
Go through the history, go through the religions,
Man has been always a wicked animal!
So many prophets, sages, and saints came to reform him,
But he remains, by and large, the same!
Don't fool yourself:
You're hiding the truth from yourself, I know,
You are a wicked person, you need to be reformed!
Oh, don't you feel ashamed?
Why do you think you're a perfect person?
Look inside to know yourself - your real self,
Don't hide the true news from yourself...
That you are your own foe, and foe of others?
Set yourself right, you need to be reformed!
To be a real human being -
like one whom God wanted to be His vicegerent,
My nafs e lawama _ the voice of conscience _ informs me, and insists!
Don't be so stubborn, give a push out to nafs e ammara - evil ego - just a push!
Oh, let you be, the pure person,
Mind it, in your essence, you are a noble person,
Then you stooped to the lowest of low!
Because you're a wicked animal, but that is nothing new.

MyKoul