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March 9, 2010This poem is inspired from a talk with an elederly friend, known since many years, whom the poet met in...
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February 23, 2010Lack of actions/Weak on heart-/I know I tell a lie/When I say you I love/Yet I rather commit that sin/Than...
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February 23, 2010My heart lost/In state Medinized/Mustafa’s love/Had my soul amazed
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February 22, 2010A poem inspired while greeting salaam at Rawdha Shareef after fajr.
My heart’s power are you!/My soul’s energy are you!Take me...
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February 21, 2010God made you the merciful sultan/Entire world for your compassionate reign/All the sweet words I write
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February 20, 2010But O love of all my love/Of what use/My entire life/Your face
I haven’t seen if
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February 19, 2010 When rises the Sun of Madina/In my heart,/At once sets/The glory of my intellect’s fort.
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January 24, 2010How can you buy light in the market of darkness? A rose is planted in the garden, not a land...
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January 7, 2010I am after all a son of Adam / Distraction runs in my vein!/ This silly world keeps me busy/...
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December 31, 2009I thought of you / Finally decided / To think of you / Till I can think no more… An...
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December 30, 2009The pain of separation to bear is really hard
Even the best of joy keeps us in a state sad
Therefore pay...
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December 29, 2009I would have loved you most…
If you could stop me die
And hold me to cheeks nigh
I would have loved you...
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December 25, 2009The goal of this system is to make man spend / It sweet-coats the debts seducing others to lend
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December 17, 2009The light continued to shine/As if like a pearl from a goldmine/
I thought about the Noorun-ala-Noor…
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December 10, 2009One night in prayer a man cried to God / Ya Rabb! You are the most just / To trade...
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November 15, 2009Har roz banaati hai woh shehd si baat / Ke khayaal hamaara hai unko din-o-raat…
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November 15, 2009‘In your Beautiful Eyes, Shines my Handsome Face’. Jaihoon’s poem inspired by a 3-year old’s talk
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November 10, 2009 Allah is near (can be near) only if we realize it from the words of His Beloved, argues Jaihoon
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October 13, 2009Love is an ocean deep / The more you dive- / The more treasures you heap / So much that...
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September 17, 2009In her intense love for Allah, she was more interested in meeting Him after death than entering paradise or escaping...
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September 10, 2009Sinned
Stained
Shamed
O my Allah!
Forgive only You can
Deeds of such mine
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September 8, 2009O Sweet Rabb!
O Who is never fed up
Who with mercy my crimes wrap
To you belongs my yearning tears-
You are the...
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September 4, 2009As I completed writing this poem, my friend who was on Umra called me with exctement from Madina. Subhanallah. May...
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September 2, 2009 Love me as much
Love me as such
As if Lord has set aside
Another paradise for the loved
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August 27, 2009O son!
In your life you saw
The love mothers show
Imagine the mercy of Ar-Rahman
Which is closer to us times more
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August 9, 2009The believers are busy in long prayers
Reciting from His Book verse after verse
Their bodies are tied with his Fear
Their souls...
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July 26, 2009 He is the teacher on earth and skies
From him learned the world that it exists
Were it not for his grace
I...
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July 15, 2009Even as he stood closer
Than two bow lengths
Facing the Ultimate Realty
He remembered his faithful folk… Jaihoon’s Miraj Poem
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July 8, 2009 Translation of Jaihoon’s poem by Mohd. Kattayad
هذا الشعر مستوحى من محادثات الشاعر مع صديق له، مُسنّ، بالمدينة المنورة...
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July 6, 2009Time at me fun pokes, Solitude stone throws
Without you beside, A madman am I let loose
O love-cheeked one!
Joyless, Lifeless,
Without you,...
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July 6, 2009O the one who liberated Bilal from chains
Give a remedy against this cruel nuisance
Those who hold the reins of power
See...
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June 4, 2009My life a feast of pain
For onlookers seem vapid joy
I alone hear my silent moan
Love a crime in this lustful...
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![To a Disheartened Rose]( "To a Disheartened Rose")
April 27, 2009You are a Rose
Burning day and night
All through summer and winter
There is no end to your merciless plight.
I am a...
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![Khwaab ke janaab..]( "Khwaab ke janaab..")
April 26, 2009Sabr hamaare paas bilkul hai,
Lekin mere khwaab
Ke janaab
Socha bhi hai aap ne kabhi
Yeh intizaar kitna mushkil hai?
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April 8, 2009Jaihoon’s poem on a dream visit to the house of Ayesha Siddiqa (ra) and her advice to the Modern World
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![I have heard much about YOUR MERCY!]( "I have heard much about YOUR MERCY!")
March 26, 2009I have heard much
That YOUR MERCY is such…
No matter how many times
My word I breach,
A believer’s heart
YOU will never ditch
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![Once gone, would you not return?]( "Once gone, would you not return?")
March 19, 2009When you are no more in my sight
It seems the day is held captive by night
(yet I feel that) The...
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![The angels belittled me: ‘Oh a man he is!’]( "The angels belittled me: ‘Oh a man he is!’")
February 23, 2009Always failing in His duty
Oh. A man he is!
Never losing hope in His Mercy
Oh. A man he is!
His prayers were...
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![A Silent Singer]( "A Silent Singer")
January 4, 2009I am tired of the present vision and sound.
Bless me with a brush to paint a new world.
In the march...
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![Like a Tasbih…]( "Like a Tasbih…")
December 27, 2008As I close my eyes,
She appears with a smile
even before sleep arrives.
She is the wodhu for my heart
Like a tasbih,
She...
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![A Prayer!]( "A Prayer!")
December 26, 2008Ya Rahman ! Ya Raheem ! O My Loving Lord !
You’ve fondled me with your Mercy . . .
You...
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![In the bazaar of Love . . .]( "In the bazaar of Love . . .")
December 25, 2008In search of a drop, I found an ocean!
Looking for an angel, I was blessed with a human,
Alive, with a...
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![My Rosary is breaking!]( "My Rosary is breaking!")
December 10, 2008One bead after another
My Rosary is breaking
Star by Star
My sky is shattering.
How terrible is the wound
Caused by the sword shining
I...
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![Stomach full, Hearts empty : The post Ramadan Effect?]( "Stomach full, Hearts empty : The post Ramadan Effect?")
November 1, 2008Ramadan is over and mosques are empty
Ramadan is over the rosary is immobile
Ramadan is over and Ibadah is scarce
Ramadan is...
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![A Tender Hand]( "A Tender Hand")
October 30, 2008The present world is in need of a tender hand that would reach out to everyone.
A hand that is clean...
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![The gift from Almighty !]( "The gift from Almighty !")
October 28, 2008How blessed you are by the creator !
How lucky you are : the occasion you were born . . .
The...
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July 6, 2008To win that ‘dream-like’ prize
Every opportunity I am eager to seize
Like a Divine key
Unlock the secrets within me.
With the light...
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![Madina is…]( "Madina is…")
June 14, 2008Madina is…
Where voice goes low
When hands and legs become still
And heart jumping with joy
Madina is
Where the His verses you listen
Were...
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![His city, the hive of joy]( "His city, the hive of joy")
February 6, 2008O the Abode of God
To away go is hard
Millions encircle you
Earth’s core are you
Believers desire are you
His reminder are you
His...
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![Paradise is where Beloved is]( "Paradise is where Beloved is")
January 29, 2008To Tasbih asked I once a thing
I’d not get it even from a king
“Tell me why is Rawdha called
Its gardens...
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