When A Person In Deep Slumber Hears In The Early Hours Poem by Mohammad Younus

When a person in deep slumber hears in the early hours,
The Muazzin calling to come to the Lord:
The meeting with the Lord is better than the sweet deep sleep!
The person hearing the call is free, either to declare,
The great Yes or the great No, nto the Caller's call!
Nobody is there to compel him, he must himself realize.

The person who is bold to say the Yes,
The believer within him is awakened and enlightened!
He is saying to His God:
Our Lord! We have heard the caller to ˹true˺ belief,
Proclaiming: sleepers come to God! Come to God.
We believe in you alone! Our Lord! Forgive our sins!
Absolve us of our misdeeds! And misconceptions,
And allow us to die as one of the God-conscious persons!

Such a believer is elevated by the Lord from honor to honor!
He is strong in his conviction! He is strong in his belief! '
The person who refuses and does not repent for his sins,
He in his arrogance says No to the caller's call,
The while still sleeping under the quilt hearing devil's call,
Within him is a rejecter residing, who drags him down,
All his life into ignorance, illusion, and delusion!

Such a person if desists not, God shall most surely,
Drag him down upon his forehead, holding his forelock,
That day when he is dragged to the hell fire, he shall say:
'Oh would that I were utter dust! '

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