The Zikr of Life

Zikr is the ritualistic group remembrance of God, Allah, expressed through chanting, movement, repetition, music, prayer.

I was ever stone

Upon the granite peak

Allah gave me frost

Into the fissures

He dropped seed

Wildflowers grew

Asleep I ever flowed

Allah placed boulders in

My Path

Now my rapids sing of seas

I know my destination

That Ocean of One

My heart was ever desert

Unfit for even camel

Sorrow, pain and suffering

Allah placed before my eyes

I wept and knew compassion

My tears a garden grew 

Of kindness and of giving

To others duty too

I thought I knew love

Wife, children, siblings, cats

That song by Leonard Cohen

All a weak brew

Allah took, took, took

Gave me loss until

I turned, I drank of Him

Then He alone I loved 

Then He took my love

Lord of every universe

Designer of the jinn

Stars and moons and Light

Space to put them in

Out of nothing He awoke

Sang a song of all Creation

There is only the One

He was I

I am He

All is made of Love

There is only Love