{"id":3558,"date":"2012-08-14T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2012-08-13T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T04:54:50","slug":"poem-seeking-the-night-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/poem-seeking-the-night-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Seeking the Night of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Awaiting a blessed night a blessed moment<br \/>\nCleansing, purifying ,uplifting<br \/>\nWill I be amongst the one being favoured<br \/>\nOr will I be amongst the one forgotten<br \/>\nBecause I forgot<\/p>\n<p>Because I forgot<br \/>\nThat this life is a passing journey<br \/>\nI embrace it whole heartedly<br \/>\nwhen I should turn my heart towards eternity<\/p>\n<p>Because I forgot<br \/>\nThat I am a humble one<br \/>\nInstead I puff my chest in arrogance<br \/>\nI worship my mind<br \/>\nI worship my strength<br \/>\nI worship my will<\/p>\n<p>Because I forgot<br \/>\nThat my homeland is waiting for me<br \/>\nChoosing instead a mirage<br \/>\nWhere nothing is real<br \/>\nBut mere reflections<br \/>\nWhere I thought I saw me<br \/>\nBut merely an image, not my reality<\/p>\n<p>Because I forgot<br \/>\nTo remember the One<br \/>\nWho dresses this universe<br \/>\nWith His Beauty, His Majesty<br \/>\nWhere His Love encompass everything<br \/>\nHis Mercy brings life to everything<\/p>\n<p>I look up to the Heavens<br \/>\nHoping, maybe &#8230;maybe<br \/>\nthis time He looks at me<br \/>\nEven a single gaze ,<br \/>\nA gaze that burns me<br \/>\nA gaze that intoxicates me<br \/>\nA gaze that makes me lose me so that i may exist in the Ocean<br \/>\nAn Ocean , an ocean of Unity,<br \/>\nWhere I will know what is I is not me<\/p>\n<p>An Ocean of Power<br \/>\nBy the Blessings of the Night of Power<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Anonymous Contributer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Awaiting a blessed night a blessed moment Cleansing, purifying ,uplifting Will I be amongst the one being favoured Or will I be amongst the one forgotten Because I forgot Because I forgot That this life is a passing journey I embrace it whole heartedly when I should turn my heart towards eternity Because I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[585,1087,694,1865,730,1866,1063,693],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritualreligious","tag-breaking","tag-islamic-poem","tag-islamic-poetry","tag-lailatul-qadr","tag-laylatul-qadr","tag-night-of-power","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3561,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions\/3561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}