If You Have Love In Your Heart... Poem by Mohammad Younus

If you have love in your heart...
...you have the teachings of all great religions;
You will not do any evil action...
...be they your friends or foes;
You will do all right deeds and be righteous...
...without the lecturing of sheikhs and gurus;
Love is the living guide that guides...
... travelers on the straight way;
It is the book of Allah in your heart;
Without this you will be like a traveller...
...who has in wilderness lost his way;
When people are bereft of love in their hearts...
...their animal nature will surface up...
...and their divinely nature will disappear;
Yet, from the merciful God come 'radio waves'...
...that inspire knowledge and wisdom into us...
...and guide us through the inspired messages to Him;
He who has love in his heart...
...is because he has fear and hope of Allah in his heart;
He who says, 'I believe in Allah, but hasn't love in his heart'...
...he will be like a wild beast, most ferocious.

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