What Excuses Have You To Offer, My Tempting Nafs... Poem by Mohammad Younus

What excuses have you to offer, my tempting nafs...
...for so many evil invitations?
Do you not see my constancy on the road of Love?
How can you make me unfaithful rebel and faithless!
How can I ignore the limitless generosity of my beloved?
You conspire to make me ungrateful and thankless;
So many graces from my beneficent beloved!
So many sins you command me to do!
Such delusion, such illusory imaginings...
...and dark thoughts...
...you try to create in my heart!
Such horrible drawings! Such evil paintings!
Such meanness by you! such hypocrisy!
Why all this misleading? A foe in the garb of a friend!
Come on and submit to me...
...as a faithful servant;
Such that your bitter soul becomes sweet!
Such that you may join the righteous souls!
Be repentant of your rebellion against your true Master...
...and have his holy name on your lips...
...and hear with your whole devotion...
...the holy word of your lord - Hu;
In that moment,
He will draw you nigh to His presence...
...and deliver you alive;
In that instant,
You will see by your side him...
...who is your essence.

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