Prayer to overcome fears
Allah, thank You for a God fearing girl
who makes me content in this corrupt world.
You can be lame, have no legs or no face
or be pretty, like my darling, my taste.
Will you love me when I am an old man
and my back bends where I may need a hand.
Will you touch me still when she is fifty
and I sixty seven not then nifty.
Will you forgive any infirmity.
Will your kiss then, oh, last eternities.
Will you thank God listening as God says
to still put your hands through my hair when gray.
Growing more beautiful each day I know
I will do all this for you as I grow.
Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari
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I had a conversation about fears and I have to admit I too have fears and here they are.
Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari
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Such a sweet heart you have, my brother. Yeah, we muslims pray for people we love and I know the way you love your Sahabah. Being thankful and grateful is so good. Such loves can’t be earned easily and I know the value of it.
Thank you for sharing your poem with us and don’t forget me, too, from your duas :-)
~Massy~
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Dear Son:
To write or voice your fears is the first stage towards letting them go. The depth of your love should act as a balance against your fears which are more about your doubts than your fears, if you look carefully at them.
Your poem is beautiful. I wish I could reply in poetry of such beauty, but alas, I can't. Prose will have to do.
Behind everything is your faith which will carry you through every challenge you may meet.
blessings and love, Mum. -
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Mum thanks for your thoughful words...
It is said even a blind squirrel runs into a nut at least twice a day and I am glad for what the moment brings taking each moment on its own merit. Her fears might be greater than my own but notwithstanding to me mine are important. I know you are an inspiration for me because of what you said about your own situation and the spread of years which I won't repeat here but it also made me happy that you saw perhaps a light which is what hope is about. Sahabah is a fine spirit and a wonderful soul and that should count for something in life. The fact she is beautiful too is icing.
Smoosh my ap mummy
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Fears vanish when faced, love moves with mysterious ways, still the heart is blind, as to our gods we pray. Great poem John
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Beautiful...This is the most loveliest of prayers..I can here the devotion in your words as well as hers..And that in itself is the most beautiful thing in the world..
Take care...Dusty
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Beautiful and Moving
This is quite beautiful, Abdul; for it sets out what is really important in a relationship, and what we see with our eyes is not what it is all about. Thank you for directing me to this wonderful poem.
Much love in Christ,
B♥nnieQ
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beautiful
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beautiful
I add my prayers to yours for a love that grows more beautiful each day you and your beloved are together. - joanne
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The sweet and spiritual whisperings of love, but love in all its simplicity is divine and to truly love means never noticing growing old for in your heart and soul you are forever young.
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wonderful piece
you have sincerity and a fine scope-- a lifetime of love and the changes of life
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Well written and worthy of praying for,women love to the depths of their soul and they are capable of this longed for love of devotion,many blessings
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Don't we all pray for similar things - someone to love us when we grow old, to care from us when we are ill and to be there no matter what? Well written.
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This is lovely and truly spiritual. I found it to be well written in terms of structure and flow. The imagery is beautiful.
Thank you for the wonderful read. Amera
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beautiful!
How moving, how beautiful,the devotion here displayed in expressing love for a lifetime, no matter what sickness, amputation...Loves fears "Will we love each other for a lifetime?" no matter what? "Will affection still be there?" Beautifully portrayed through your imagery Abdul.....I have no doubts that you and Sahabah are made for each other,,,if she is anything like you in tenderness and kindness....Wonderful write...every word! -
This was a sweet prayer that you have written. I see that is shows all of the elements of being in love and in a relationship. A very lovely piece.
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Oh my sweet....
I will love you forever into eternity
For you are a gift from God, you see.
I will love you when you have no hair,
when I run my fingers through, there's none there.
I will rub the flesh of your bald head,
no running fingers through, kissing baldness instead.
I will love you when the only physical attribute that's the same...
is the way your eyes sparkle when I call out your name.
I will love you forever into eternity
for you are a gift from God, you see.
xoxo
Sahabah
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This is a nice little poem you wrote! I'm to see you writing. And I think that it's great to share your thoughts and your fears but I also pick up a lot of hope in this poem. And a lot of wishes to have everything turn out for the best when you try hard. Lestways, that's how it reads to me. I thought you did a great job of this.
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this is a good prayer. i am with you, i think some of my fears are here to stay. i hope the prayer works for your uncle. viyanna rosemarie
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rightly seen. well said. and well done.
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Breathtaking
Darling uncle
Do you have brothers
someone to love me
transcending all other lovers
making my soul free.
Janet
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I pray a lot and especially now
I bow my head
asking only to serve
before God I'm lead
to what believers deserve.
Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari
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