Bear The Mild Yoke Of Love Poem by Mohammad Younus

When I think over how my life is spent, I see:
Much more than half my days in the dark I spent,
And for the rest of my life I remained busy...
in the quest of the eternal truth...
...through busy days and calm nights
Lodg'd in the vast, wide heart, i broom off...
...the useless ideas and the garbage of evil thoughts
Just like a believer makes wadu or does gusal before salah
I stand up then to serve my Maker, in order to present...
...my true account when I am raised to life after death
My God does not exact hard labour from me,
My God does not need my labour but only my pure love
He fondly asks me:
'And seek help in patience and the prayer'
Those who fear and love God, for them it is not heavy and hard¹
God does not need our sitting on the prayer rugs...
...and telling on the beads while renouncing the world
So a lover must not labour for rewards or gifts:
Just he should bear the mild yoke of love, and till...
...the field to the best.of his satisfaction, and God's pleasure.

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1. Qur'an 2: 45-46:
. (٤٥) وَاسْتَعِينُواْ بِالصَّبْرِ وَالصَّلاَةِ وَإِنَّهَا لَكَبِيرَةٌ إِلاَّ عَلَى الْخَاشِعِينَ
(٤٦) الَّذِينَ يَظُنُّونَ أَنَّهُم مُّلاَقُو رَبِّهِمْ وَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

And seek assistance through patience and prayer;
and most surely it is a hard thing, except for the humble ones,
who know that they shall meet their Lord and that they shall return to Him.