First came a strong wind,
Rippin' off rooftops like bottlecaps
And bending lamp posts down to the ground.
Then came a thunder shattering my windows
But you were not that strong wind or that might sound
You left the bar in shambles,
The rabbit hutch in ruins,
The split-rail fence splintered and the curtains torn.
All the cows out from the pastures trampling the pumpkins
And the horses from their stable ambling in the corn
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
And I've flown unnoticed just behind you like an insect
And I've watched you like a falcon from a distance as you passed.
Then swooped down to be nearer, to the traces of the footsteps
To pick the fallen grain from the pressed-down dirt and crooked grass.
And I'm gonna take that grain and I'm gonna crush it all together
Into the flour of a bread as small and simple and sincere.
As when the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another
The gentle cup of mutually surrendered tears, C'MON!
A fish swims through the sea
While the sea is in a certain sense,
Contained within the fish!
Oh, what am I to think
Of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes
Could not explain
If all the forest trees were pens
And all the oceans, ink?
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
Nastagh-firuka ya Hokan
Ya Dhal-Jalah wal-Ikram
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam
Ya Halim, ya Qahhar
Ya Muntaqim, ya Ghaffar!
Ia Ilaha ilallahu, Allahu Akbar!