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Poem from A Mosque

Xanadu

Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar
Ashhadu an la Ilah ila Allah
Ashhadu an Mohammed rasul Allah
Haya ala as-salat
Haya ala as-salat

(i)

Red carpet allover
rectangular and circular columns
two oblong ones in the back
four round ones to the front
cutting out center
where Muslims
sit down for prayer
when ceiling reaches out
for a square dome
of old-fashioned lanterns
which need not lit
next to giant neons.

(ii)

Gothic tapering arches
resting on brown pillars
of mihrab setting
Kaaba direction
next to high minbar
like Mohammed
house of salat (sura 11:114)
marking a handrail
to top where its height
nears at clock
pointers now showing
six and ten
id est ten to six we say we sad
on the fourth day of our journey
when time seems to fly—
prayer time.

(iii)

Fluorescent lights all over
starring out
like four leaves
of two tubes each
around rosebud
of four smaller neons
captured in square of bud
A/Cs and fans
to pillars end walls.

(Thanks to Abdullah—)
Sura 11:114
And perform As-Salat at the two ends of the day and in some hours of the night.
Verily, the good deeds remove the evil deeds. That is a reminder for the mindful—
from The Noble Quran in the English language)

REFERENCES

Dr. Muhammed Taqi-ud-Din AL-HILALL, Dr. Muhammad Muhsin KHAN 1996.
Interpretation of The Meanings of
The Noble Quran in the English language.
Darussalam

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