Sunday, February 18, 2007
VideoPoetry, *ing Jaihoon
Hi
Fascinated with the videocasts found online, I was just learning to do some my own stuff.
I experimented visualizing my poem, One Pain a thousand joy, on an aesthetic background from the cultural landscape of emirate of Sharjah. From now on WaveLength, as it is called, is gonna keep me busy and will have my contain my ambitions in the visual field. Already working on a short docu-film, the starting is very exciting. Gotta see how far it goes, insha Allah.
Besides poetry, there’s already videos from Corporate, Politics and Culture topics.
Don’t think this is really amazing, nevertheless worth sharing. Broadband users will see it going smooth, dial-up users… God is indeed with those who are patient. http://www.jaihoon.com/wavelength/onepain.htm
One pain, a thousand joy!
Walking across the bazaar one day
A bystander asked me the reason why-
‘May days had passed since-
You have not composed any lines?’
Every other day a new dish I would prepare
And soulful garments for the dispirited to wear
I burn by own heart in the oven of pain
I soak my eyes in the stream of tears
These are a favor from the Lord
Which shall link them and Him with an accord
But for past few days I kept myself busy
So that the heart would not feel dizzy
I masked my pain with the worldly glitter
I chained my soul with the comfortable fetter
For a day I put my head in the worldly matters
And my heart without His Love fell into clutters
For those eyes used to reading my painful tale
May Allah bless my pen to write without fail!
What harm for one solitary heart with pain to throb and bleed-
If it shall make a thousand hearts towards Him proceed!
There is a victory in pain too-
Ah! stones plenty, Pearls so few!
Notes
These are a favor… : The eyes and heart are a blessing from Allah which is to be used in His Way, i.e. to help bring fellow beings closer to Him.
Labels: Poetry, Video, WaveLength
Saturday, February 03, 2007
O Soul! Don’t you remember?
O Soul! Don’t you remember?
- Jaihoon
http://www.jaihoon.com/egoptics/osoul.htm
O Soul
Don’t you remember?
Recall those days?
When in Harem you roamed
The House and the Stone
Safa and Marwa and all His signs
While I strived among the crowd
You elsewhere roamed
O Soul
Don’t you remember?
You wanted to reach Beloved
You wanted to untie all your pain
When at the Beloved you arrived
You became most happy since you lived
And then you made me cry
Tears became like rivers
O Soul
Don’t you remember?
You made me sob and weep
No control could I keep
Your joy made me weak
No more could I take
O Soul
Don’t you remember?
I walked on the streets
Like a madman let loose
Unconscious of my own being
Like a crown fell from a king
O Soul
Don’t you remember?
Love’s fragrance spread in the air,
Save the Beloved nothing seemed fair
You became so benevolent
Hands with charity was bent
Had paradise arrived so early?
Would I swim in Tasneem dearly?
But now…
What has happened
Your love for Beloved hasn’t deepened
Your tears have gone dried
Deserts more moist than your eyes
Although with Him
Have you likened none-
The gravest sin
Have you committed
The love of His Beloved
Has from you dissolved
The farther from him you move
The darker your faith would prove
Muhammad connects-
Humanity with Divinity
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
Muhammad separates
Morality from Bestiality
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
O Soul!
Madina is the only reason why
Your Lord has kept you alive
Ah! As the slave of God
Is humiliated so rude
Everywhere is his torture
Everyone love to butcher
His pride slaughtered
Conspiracy so doctored
If Lord feel for him any love
Since Mustafa’s ways he follow
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
O Soul!
You a bird
Drift not from his skies
Your only pride
That Mustafa in you reside
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
Weep in his love
Better than laughing for this world
O Soul!
Madina is the only reason why
Your Lord has kept you alive
Notes
House : Ka’ba
Stone : Hajr Al Aswad
Safa and Marwa : The two hills
Tasneem : The river in paradise
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