The Holy Quran, despite revealed to the Holy Prophet, is aplenty with tales of earlier Prophets. Jaihoon’s poetic response for this ‘imbalanced love’

Time and again doubts loom
Flowers of thoughts, too, bloom

Mysteries of love provoke
Questions come without knock

‘Of Musa’s and Isa’s
Tales verses are plenty
But of Mustafa’s
Not even scanty

Pages on Bethlehem
And Babylon
Of Medina and Makkah
But unknown?

Why this imbalance
On the Love-scale?
Why make the lover’s
Face go pale?

What is the basis
For this bias?
What lesson to take
For the pious?’

Came the reply,

‘Drops of few verses
And chapters will not suffice
HIS Beloved’s praises
Shall consume oceans seven

HE set aside
A separate stream
Of knowledge
Books upon books
Are written
On his life-age

The Holy Book is filled
With His speech alone
But preserved is even
The Beloved’s silence’


Sep 1, 2014. Edit April 2021


The Holy Quran, despite revealed to the Holy Prophet, contains very little direct references to his life incidents but is aplenty with the stories of earlier Prophets such as Moses, Jesus and Abraham. The poet justifies this ‘imbalance’ by referring to the Hadith literature, considered as the second source of Islamic knowledge, which has recorded hundreds of thousands of authentic narrations related to the deeds, words and even silence of the Holy Prophet.