I Wasted Much Of My Life Telling People... Poem by Mohammad Younus

I wasted Much Of My Life telling people...
Do not take the dead in the graves as your gods;
Venerate the living sages and Allah's friends;
Learn from them as devout students...
...but never Deify them;
They are just your teachers, not gods;
The sages and saints of the dead past..
...can't be your masters;
They can't rise from the dead...
...to be like living masters;
This is precisely for me - a soliloquy!

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