Selected poetry from Hazrat Mian Muhammad Baksh Saheb’s “Saif-ul-Malook”. English translation by Khamosh Tamashai.
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Iqbal Bahu:
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“Saif-ul-Malook”
(Part 1 of 8 )
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Firstly all praise to Allah, who is the owner of everything,
Whoever remembers His name is never a loser in any field.
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Pour the rain of mercy, O Allah! turn the shriveled garden green,
Make the plant my hopes and longings full of fruit.
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In this wonderful garden He planted the plant of Adam,
With the fruits of His recognition, adorned it with wonderful fruits.
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Free of any dwelling Himself, no dwelling is free of Him,
All the time, all the things, Muhammad, He keeps in good order.
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Whoever provisions He has decided for anybody, that written He never cancels,
Even seeing tens of millions of faults, He nourishes as before.
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What a kind guardian (PBUH) of the Muslim Umma, he loves and intercedes,
The likes of Gabriel are in whose service, the leader of the Prophets.
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He (PBUH) is the beloved of Allah, a helper on the day of judgment,
Himself an orphan, he consoles and protects the orphans.
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I, a sinner, ashamed, a liar, filled with sins,
Have only a single hope, that from your doorstep; have no other protection.
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I am blind, and the path is slippery, how can I be keep myself steady?
There are many to push, only you to hold my hand.
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Listen to my urging, O guide of guides, please dont push me,
You are a guardian of the weak, God has given you honor.
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Who don’t carry any money with them, they return empty handed from bazar,
All is in destiny, O Muhammad Bakhsh, what can be the remedy without fate?
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Repeatedly taking the blows of defeats, don’t lose heart, one day tide will turn,
When a hungry man turns to begging, Muhammad, Ultimately he fills the bowl.
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The talk of the sad ones, Muhammad, bears witness to their condition,
Whoever has wrapped flowers, his handkerchief emits fragrance.
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In the world my life is indeed useless,
My heart had sought you; you did not remain friend.
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I have taken what I had to, from what was written in my fate,
With the ones who don’t care, Muhammad, what power do we poor have?
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I have spent my life in love, let me see one more time,
These eyes have seen you, may they be useless to see anything else.
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Enough I am powerless to do anything; what else can I say about losing you?
What power does a weak have, Muhammad? either running away or crying.
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In the house of beloved, aloofness helps the needy,
On whosoever He places his sight, he wins the game.
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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ~Doug Larson
A weed is but an unloved flower. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else. In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. Weeds are people’s idea, not nature’s. ~Author Unknown
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place. ~Donald Culross Peattie
Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. ~Dave Barry
I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of. ~Helena Rutherfurd Ely, A Woman’s Hardy Garden, 1903
But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last. ~Robert M. Pyle
Weeds are nature’s graffiti. ~Janice Maeditere
They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I’ve concluded weeds must have brains. ~Dianne Benson, Dirt, 1994
We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt – as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it. ~E.J. Salisbury, The Living Garden, 1935
I learn more about God
From weeds than from roses;
Resilience springing
Through the smallest chink of hope
In the absolute of concrete….
~Phillip Pulfrey, “Weeds,” Perspectives, http://www.originals.net
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. ~Horace Mann, “Thoughts for a Young Man,” 1859
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. ~Henry David Thoreau
Blushing is the color of virtue. ~Diogenes
Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm. ~Denis Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew, 1762
Virtue is insufficient temptation. ~George Bernard Shaw
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. ~Charles Caleb Colton
Modesty and unselfishness – these are virtues which men praise – and pass by. ~André Maurois, Ariel, 1924
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Virtue is its own revenge. ~E.Y. Harburn
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. ~Theodore M. Hesburgh
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can’t separate them. They’re wedded. ~Henry Miller
Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company. ~François de la Rochefoucauld
A man hasn’t got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. ~Anne Petry
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~Voltaire
Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue. ~Martin H. Fischer
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. ~Robert S. Lynd
The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. ~Hugh Prather
They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Ts’ai Ken T’an
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ~George Orwell
It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. ~Edith Sitwell
Some folks wear their halos much too tight. ~Author Unknown
What, after all, is a halo? It’s only one more thing to keep clean. ~Christopher Fry
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ~La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665