The Sacred Warrior Poem by Mohammad Younus

Every tragedy offers us an opportunity,
To become a sacred warrior in the battle of life,
A warrior, who bravely goes into dark recesses within,
To ferret out the Truth of his being,
To know why the tragedies befell him,
It takes great courage, stamina and endurance,
To do self- introspection, and blame God not,
For your miseries and misfortunes,
And become a sacred warrior,
Who does jihād against his own self,
Who searches not a fishbone in other's beard,
But finds ten in his own,
He blames his own self for all his wrong events,
He identifies his negativities and reverses them,
Because to walk the Red Road,
He sternly believes, he can do better.

Mykoul