The Journey

Amongst sages and scholars, saints and lovers

Students and servants, martyrs and callers

Providence did afford so opportune a travel

That this tangled quilt so woven may unravel

Laden with sin outstripped by only remorse

Of how things should have been had I stayed the course

So heedless and reckless, did I Thy favor abuse

Snared so deeply by my own deadly ruse

Only to learn that with august company would lie my roster

What but gratefulness could such senseless clemency foster

To dispel the dark of night, takes only a single ray

But you chose to keep with me the sun of day, as if you wanted me to say…

If to enlighten an ocean of darkness, it takes but a single flame

Then why did you drown me in an ocean of torches tame

Except that I may to all tell…

‘Tis the cool waters of Heaven for us you desire, not the fiery ingot of Hell

[On the occasion of the lesser pilgrimage with my beloved Shaykh (may Allah SWT preserve him)]

-Shaykh Omar Hussaini