The Light
Raheem Muhammad 1964 (Alabama)
Let there be in the beginning there was none
How could we find false, what was truth?
If what’s all around is that sign of the Sun
Knowledge was not known from the proof
The first gift given to those whom He created:
Light is, to be seen, to see our way back
From the fall that was felled down out of hatred
Blessed with His cure but the vision we lack
Why are the false preachers and prophets?
What did they see in kings, judges or even man?
Where’s the power of the idols, crosses, lockets?
Who was it obscured and polluted and damned?
The End is the outcome of ignorant darkness
In a world that is veiled out of prophecy
But The Light still shines from His Oneness
To those who believe in what they can not see
Bright and brighter still in the Sealed Nectar:
Shinning out of a blackness that is white
Penetrating through barriers here and farther
It is, The Light is, The Kitab is, The Light.
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In a world that is veiled out of prophecy But The Light still shines from His Oneness
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Submitted by TheArkProject on July 02, 2022
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| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
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| Words | 198 |
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| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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