Prayers For Rain Of Mercy Poem by Mohammad Younus

O Thou Who created me and everything...
...perfectly and in due measure...
...and made all things - living and non-living...
...for my growth and sustenance!
By thy command I live! By thy will alone I love!
May your light ever shine on my soul and heart!
The lute of divine music that Thou to me didst give...
...within me sounds without my physical effort!
As the streams of Thy mercy run for me in the universe...
...so do the streams of thy holy music run inside me!

Whether it be in Mecca, the holiest shrine...
...or in the Sacred Cave on the Mount of Light...
...or inside the human heart, the secret abode thine,
Wherever your lovers go that is the blessed shrine!

In the morning you greet me with dawn's light...
...and with holy music that echoes in my eyes!
A flame of thy light in my heart rises that...
...burns up my carnal desires, and the images of other.

Give me thy ears, thy eyes, and thy tongue!
So that no more I live as deaf, mute, and blind!
O Rahman, to quench my thirst for your love...
...kindly shower the rain of mercy in torrents...
...on my burning heart!
Let me your holy name breathe in and breathe out!

MyKoul