Who are you

And where are you,

What are you

And why are you…?

I had many  questions

But  answers to none.

You called yourself Allah

And they called you Allah,

But I didn’t understand.

So I denied  you

And I ran from you

Until I could run no more…

I shut my eyes  to a blinding light,

And darkness was all that I could see.

Yet  I thought that was

a better way  to think,

Because ‘ Oh,I was so intelligent’,

So  I thought ,

And I thought of you ,

Until I could think no more…

But  I denied  you

And I ran from  you

Until I could run no more…

 I saw you all around me,

In  the signs that you gave

In the ayats  you created

Within me and outside of me,

But still I didn’t understand.

Years I studied and for years I explored,

And yet one sign I couldn’t completely understand…

But still ‘ wasn’t I so intelligent?’,

And  so I ran from you

And I denied you,

Until I could deny  no more

 ‘ With all my intelligence, I could not understand

even one creation that was created,

How much could I ever know of the Creator?’

At the end of all my search, I could only utter:

‘ La ilaha,illa-Allah,

Muhammad-ur rasool Allah ’

‘In all these years that’s all what you have?’,they ask,

Yes that’s all that I have …

An entire universe condensed

In just but one sentence...

When I set out to preach

"When I set out to preach and teach, I realized I knew nothing.

The more I tried to teach, the more I learned of what I need to know,

 and the more I tread on the path to self-discovery... "

-Dr. Taheseen.M.M.Khan