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#481 On the Afterlife that Awaits

Submit to Him who gives you Will to choose
Surrender to Your Lord and his dictates
This Life is an illusion to bemuse
For after Life, the Afterlife awaits
   We shall be judged by how we played His cards:
   Eternal bliss, or flames and poisoned shards.
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#462 On the Divine Word

With words divine You guide the lost, the strayed
Through his untutored tongue, Your blest words flowed
Two thousand years since, still the sharpest blade
To cut a swathe through Evil's darkened road
    In times of darkness we hold fast to this
    Your Book, a compass guiding us to Bliss.
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#412 Tentang Marak Amarah

Obor marah dipalu gendang
Isu kecil diapi-api
Nama Allah dibuat dagang
Demi raih laba duniawi

Apa erti puasa Ramadan
Apa makna iman di hati
Jika zalim kau perlakukan
Jika asyik berbatuapi?

Hentikanlah marak amarah
Usah leka nafsu tergalak
Jauhilah sifat mazmumah
Jadi Muslim sebaik akhlak.
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#407 On Brownshirt Tricks

You scream holy rage over socks and stews
With manufactured outrage to offend
“Defending God” as a young nation slews
Convulsed by demagogic discommend 
   With bloodshot eyes you rave and stamp your feet
   With brownshirt tricks you thump your war-drum beat.
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#401 On the Fourth Day of Ramadan

I give of this, to You, my abstinence
From food, from drink, from haughty vanity
To turn to You in sober penitence
To reach beyond to Your infinity 
   Tonight I humbly seek your plenteous Grace
   My poor soul dares not suffer your efface.
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On the Test of Ramadan

In hunger and in thirst are we tested
In solidarity with those deprived
To have our baser natures now bested
This glorious trial for us has He contrived
   In Ramadan against ourselves prevail
   To win His favour in this tearful vale.