Hussain Poem by Matloob Bokhari

HUSSAIN
Matloob Bokhari


Spiritual struggle continued against despots;
Declaring all humanity one source, one God.
Abrahamic prophets rose against tyrants.
Father of Islam jumped into Nimrod’s fire
And wielded his mace to destroy his idols.
Moses with staff stormed Pharaoh's palace
And brought down the powerful Croesus.
The prophet of Islam was friend of paupers;
Friend of those nobody greeted with salaam.
A slave stood in front of nobles in Ghoba.
But ignorance, soon, replaced revolution.
Under black ashes of defeat, smouldered
Red threat of a potential explosion.
Those who sold their souls, used religion
As an instrument to suppress humanity.
Ideas were paralyzed; beliefs destroyed.
Man started suppressing in God’s name.
Man started killing in the name of religion.
Power of the tyrant with sword, deception,
Brought a pall of stifled silence upon everyone.
Income from taxes from Rome, Iran and Arabs,
Spent on Green Palace fairer than in fairy tales;
On Iranian musicians with Roman dancers.
The great revolutionary had died in Rabazeh.
Remaining brought under lashes of dominance.
In this age of suppression and black dictatorship,
Some crawled off into the niche of the mosque,
No hoot of an owl was heard in the ruins of faith.
Hussain emerged from sorrowful home of Fatima
And rebelled against the most dissolute oppression.
Struggling through glorious power of faith,
Inheritor of the movement, launched by prophets.
With no army, no weapons, no wealth, no force
Left Makkah to meet death - ornament for mankind.
Death as beautiful as necklace around neck of a girl.
Quran his arms, Prophets’ customs shield, faith defense.
Hussain, heir of Adam, sacrificed his friends and sons
On the threshold of temple of freedom and altar of love.
Holding blood, flowing from throat of his son in hands
Requested his Lord to accept this sacrifice.
This innocent death protected great Revolution.
On evening before Ashura, Hussain- a lonely man
Washed himself, put on best clothes, used perfumes.
Requested his sister to remember him in prayers.
Inheritor of patience from Prophets; valour from Ali
Finally embarked on a voyage to meet his Lord.
Hussain, victim of revival of 'Neo-ignorance' age,
Has been concealed by the greatness of Hussain.
Logic paralyses, mind perplexes to read the sacrifice.
In flow of river, flowing on is the movement of Hussain
Yazid died, his rule ended, Hussain died, his rule began.