By Novid Shaid, Ramadan, 2010

O You, who love to demonize

our Prophet, Nabi Muhammad,

know this:

that we love him more

than you love your own identities.

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O You, who love to satirize

our master, Nabi Muhammad,

know this:

that just our eulogies of him

are enough to fill your libraries.

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O You who seek to stigmatise

our leader, Nabi Muhammad,

know this:

however much you put him down

our Lord increases him in nobility.

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Oh You who are horrified

by our devotion  to Nabi Muhammad,

know this:

that he lives in our dreams

and appears before our very eyes.

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Oh You, who love to vilify

the life of Nabi Muhammad,

know this:

that some of us shed tears

by just the mention of his memory.

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Oh You, who love to trivialise

our mentor, Nabi Muhammad

know this:

that we instil his acts

we pay homage to his reality.

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Oh You, who seek to criticise

our love for Nabi Muhammad,

know this:

that we are helplessly in love

indifferent to your modernity.

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Oh You, who seek to neutralise

our love for Nabi Muhammad,

know this:

that were you to offer us immortality

just a glance of him would be our sufficiency.

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Oh You, who will never rationalise

our love for Nabi Muhammad,

know this:

were you to wipe us off the face of the earth

our dust would drift to warm Madinah.