Exodus 8

1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, "Go to

Pharaoh and tell him, 'Thus says YHWH,
"Let My people go, that they may
Serve Me. 2 "But if you block their way,
Indeed, I will smite all your land
With frogs. 3 "And so the river sand
Shall bring forth frogs abundantly,
Which shall go up and come freely
Into your house, into your room,
Upon your bed, in your costume,
Into the houses of your servants,
On your people, for your observance,
Into oven and kneading bowl.
4 "And the frogs shall come on your soul,
On your people, on all your servants."'"
5 Then YHWH spoke to Moses, "Say to
Aaron, 'Stretch out without ado
And tend your rod over the streams,
Over rivers, over ponds' gleams,
And cause frogs to come up upon
The land of Egypt before dawn.'"
6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over
The waters of Egypt, and rover
Frogs came up and covered the land
Of Egypt. 7 The magicians' hand
Of their enchantments did so too,
And brought up frogs and not a few
On the land of Egypt. 8 Then Pharaoh
Called to come faster than an arrow
Both Moses and Aaron, and said
"Entreat YHWH that He may be led
To take away the frogs from me
And from my people and country,
And I will let the people go,
That they may sacrifice to YHWH."
9 And Moses said to Pharaoh, "May
Ali be honoured! When, I pray,
Shall I intercede for you, for
Your servants, and your people more,
To destroy the frogs from you and
Your houses, that they may leave land,
Remaining in the river strand?"
Beloved, destroy the frogs from me and mine,
The frogs of unbelief as well as wine
Of false belief, and honoured be Ali
Whom You appointed at Ghadir to be
The Prophet's viceroy and the one to speak
In favour of Your law, defend the weak,
And raise the banner of the Unity
Of God as one, Muhammad and Ali.
Some flatter kings and bow before their reign,
And greet them with the finest words in vain,
For none of them seek justice nor attain
To right rule in a world of loss and gain.
But Moses greets the king with right submission
To God's appointed. Let that be my mission.

Exodus 20
1 Then Alohim spoke all these things
2 I am YHWH Alohim whose wings
Brought you from Egypt and slavery.
3 You shall have no gods except Me.
4 No graven image shall you make,
Nor heavenly likeness shall you take,
Nor from the earth beneath nor from
The waters under earth in sum.
5 Before them you shall not prostrate,
Nor shall you worship them in state.
For I YHWH am your Alohim,
A jealous husband it may seem
Who limits evil on the score
Of generations to not more
Than three or four, what parents do
Affecting children's children too,
By the hate that they bear to Me.
6 But multiplying wonderfully
To thousands of their generations
Effects of any cultivations
Of good they might do who love Me
And keep My statutes faithfully.
7 Do not lift up the name of YHWH
Your Alohim in vain, for who
Does so shall surely not receive
Acquittal from YHWH and reprieve.
8 Remember now the Sabbath day
To keep it holy every way.
9 Six days work and do all your tasks,
10 But seventh day's a rest that asks
YHWH your Alohim to keep well,
Do no work in it, buy or sell.
In it you shall not work nor labour,
You, son nor daughter, nor the neighbour
Man nor the maid in your employ.
Let even animals take joy,
And every visitor that's strayed
Your gates. 11 For in six days YHWH made
The pair of skies and earth and stayed
To make the sea and what's in it.
Then He lighted on seventh day
To take comfort in it as fit,
And kneeling blessed the Sabbath day,
So did YHWH sanctifying it.
12 Give honour to your mom and dad,
So that your life may not be sad,
But long upon the ground YHWH's given,
And Alohim for you to live in.
13 You shall not kill. 14 And you shall not
Commit adultery. 15 Do not
Steal. 16 Do not bear against your neighbour
False witness. 17 Do not covet neighbour
Of his house, do not covet his
Wife, nor his male worker, nor his
Female worker, oxen, nor his
Donkey nor anything which is
Your neighbour's property or labour.

The Lord God spoke these words to say

How we should walk the narrow way.
"I am the Lord your God who brought
You out from bondage" and then taught
The holy name YHWH Alohim–
Supreme Reality to beam
Light on the truth that God is one.
If any man or mother's son
Try to divide the human race,
He disfigures the divine face.
Nothing at all in all creation,
Which is God's image of elation,
Can give the model whereby He
May be carved in His symmetry.
Let me not grasp an image here
As though the waverings that appear
Were worthy of worship and fear.
The workings of theology
Are fornicate idolatry,
Since any concept I confess
Can only be the outer dress.
Let me not bow to what is known
Nor err about what has been shown.
God's jealousy arouses wrath,
And yet He limits on the path
The natural effects of wrong
And multiplies in grateful song
Each act of goodness that men do
A thousand times beyond the true.
His mercy needs no sacrifice
Beyond the love that will suffice
Obeying His commandments' voice:
His name uplifted to make choice
Repenting every act mistaken
And restituting what was taken
Ends in the declaration that
A man's not guilty where he sat.
Let me lift up on Sabbath day
That holy name by which I pray
And set aside my daily tasks
To do what His commandment asks.
It refers to more than a day,
But to the golden, blessèd way
That all the great must treat the small:
Father to son and at her call
Mother to daughter and the boss
To worker, who has rights not loss,
The landsman to the refugee
Cast up a stranger on his lea,
And every human being to
The animal and nature's crew.
The ethics of the Sabbath cast
A limit on the right to last
Of every strong upon the least:
Sabbath divides man from the beast
Denying in a world of care
Survival of fittest to bear,
Instead the duty of each one
To recognize a limit done
On power and rights not to be won
But inborn for servant and son.
The Sabbath takes away the need
Of labour union, nature's creed
By limiting both power and greed.
The arbitrary time it comes
Undermines every despot's sums.
In all the divine law I see
Only one law to make men free,
A positive act to be done
To lengthen life beneath the sun.
The only thing a man can do
That remains on earth right and true
Is honour to his mom and dad.
Every other monument's sad
Attempt at doing well, but clad
In idol clothing of the cad.
Let me not take another's life
Nor enter in the door of strife,
Competing in vain pursuit of
Empty status and honour's love.
The one I strike in striking him
Is also my own self, thought grim,
And every self is but the glow
Of one true Self where God will show.
Therefore adultery's a crime
And stealing is to share the rhyme
Of that delusion that makes some
Superior for wealth and gum.
Let me bear no false witness to
Another's act that is not true,
But in my speech and what I do
Recognize God's face in the crew.
The symbol and the chains of power
Invested in contracts an hour
Or in houses or in the wealth
Of workers human or in stealth
Bestial to create and transport
Goods for profit from store to fort,
Let me not covet. Let me go
Naked upon the earth to show
Dependence on Lord God alone,
To howl aloft and chew the bone,
To find gold and diamonds are strewn
In plenty to whom hark the moon,
And in my simple fakir way
I chase my tail instead to pray,
And cast aside all that is vain,
Says dervish Thomas McElwain.

Numbers 21

10 The folk of Israel now moved on

And camped in Oboth until dawn.
11 And they journeyed from Oboth and
Camped at Ije Abarim's stand,
In the desert before Moab,
Toward the sunrise at a stab.
12 From there they removed and encamped,
In valley of Zered they tramped.
13 From there they removed and encamped
On the other side of Arnon,
In the wilderness that goes on
From border of the Amorites,
For Arnon's Moab's border rights,
Between Moab and Amorites.
14 Therefore it is said in the Book
Of the Wars of YHWH if you look,
"Waheb in Suphah, where are brooks
Of the Arnon, 15 and slope of brooks
That reaches to dwelling of Ar,
And lies on Moab's border far."
16 From there they went to Beer, the well
Where YHWH said to Moses a spell,
"Gather the folk together, I
Shall give them water by and by."
17 Then Israel sang this song "Ali
Exalted one's a well to see!"
All of you sing to him freely.
18 The well the leaders sank, dug by
The nation's best nobles, and by
The lawgiver, and with their staves.
And from the wilderness and graves,
They go to Mattanah, 19 and from
Mattanah to Nahaliel come,
From Nahaliel to Bamoth,
20 And from Bamoth, the valley's growth
That is in Moab's land, to top
Of Pisgah which looks down to stop
Upon the wasteland's behemoth.

The well of Kauthar, my Beloved, is soon

Exposed to Paradise, its trees and boon.
The nobles of the nation dug in search
Of it from desert palm to northern birch,
The leaders sank it deep to find their worth,
And Moses, long before dear Ali's birth,
Sang in the Law the praises due to him
That You appointed from the desert rim
Of Ghadir. So the people sang in omen
And prophecy so loud and clear that no man
Could gainsay guidance set by God alone
And sure as carved, engraved in granite stone.
I sing this song, O my Beloved, to You:
Ali exalted is a well and true.

Numbers 23
7 And he took up his oracle
And said in oratorical
"Balak the king of Moab's brought
Me from Aram, from where he sought
The mountains of the east. 'Come, curse
Jacob for me, and come not worse,
Denounce Israel!' 8 "How shall I curse
Whom El God has not cursed? And how
Shall I denounce whom YHWH has now
Not denounced? 9 For from the top of
The rocks I see him, and above
From the hills I look at him, there!
A lone people dwelling in air,
Not reckoning itself among
The nations. 10 "Who can count the sung
Dust of Jacob, or number one
Fourth of Israel when counting's done?
Let me die the death of the good,
And let my end be like his would!"
11 Then Balak said to Balaam, "What
Have you done me? I took you but
To curse my enemies, and look,
You've blessed them well as you mistook!"
12 So he answered and said "Must I
Not take heed to speak what YHWH's cry
Has put in my mouth for the book?"
13 Then Balak said to him, "Please come
With me to where you'll see them from,
But you shall see the outer part
Of them alone, and shall not start
To see them all, curse them for me
From there throughout eternity."
14 So he brought him up to the field
Of Zophim, to Pisgah's top shield,
And built him seven altars' yield,
And offered a bull and a ram
On each altar to serve the scam.
15 And he said to Balak, "Stand here
By your burnt offering without fear
While I meet with YHWH over there."
16 Then YHWH met Balaam, put a thing
In his mouth, and said "Go and sing
To Balak, and thus you shall speak."
17 So he came to him standing sleek
By his burnt offering, and the chiefs
Of Moab were with him for fiefs.
And Balak said to him, "What's YHWH
Spoken?" 18 Then he took up his cue
In oracle and said "Arise,
Balak, and hear, do not despise!
Listen to me, son of Zippor!
19 "El God is not a man, that He
Should lie, nor son of man before,
That He should repent. And has He
Said, and will He not do? Or does
He speak not to make good His cause?

Beloved, God is not man nor son of man,

Then Son of Man's not God, do what we can.
Let son of man dressed in my flesh and bone
To You, in love who are One God alone,
Turn and return from breath to breath to seek
The sounding of Your name week upon week.
Though I might lie and just as soon repent
Let me return to where the roses went,
Bathe in the pristine Truth that for Your sake
The scintillating pools of Kauthar make.
Then being son of man I shall at last
Make all but You within me an outcast,
And rise from air to earth to eat the nut
Instead of grape and plum in forties cut.

Numbers 24
1 When Balaam saw that it pleased YHWH
To bless Israel, he did not do
As at the other times, to seek
To use magic upon the peak,
But turned toward the wilderness.
2 And Balaam raised his eyes to bless,
To see Israel encamped by tribe,
Spirit of Alohim imbibe.
3 Then he took up his oracle
And said "The utterance in full
Of Balaam the son of Beor,
The utterance of the man for
Whom eyes are opened, 4 utterance
Of him who hears the words in trance
Of El, who sees the vision of
The Almighty, who falls in love,
With eyes wide open: 5 'How lovely
Are your tents, O Jacob! And free
Your dwellings, O Israel! 6 Ali
Shall be like valleys that spread out,
Like gardens by the riverside,
Like aloes planted without doubt
By YHWH, like cedars on the tide
Of waters. 7 He shall pour out from
His buckets waters, his seed come
Like many waters, his king shall
Be higher than Agag's cabal,
Exalted, his kingdom stands fast.
8 From Egypt El brings him to last,
He has strength like a wild ox, he
Shall consume nations, enemy,
He'll break their bones and pierce with arrow.
9 He bows down willing at the harrow,
He lies down as a lion, and
As a lion, who'll make him stand?
Blessed is the one who blesses you,
And cursed is he who curses you.'"

When Balaam turned his sight from Israel

To gaze out on the desert without well,
You spoke through him in prophecy to tell
The triumphs and the virtues of Ali.
From Pisgah I too look out on the sea
Of troubled nations gathered toward the flood
Of the Euphrates, see the curse and blood,
And yet beyond the dryness of men's fate,
I see the luscious waters of the gate
Of Kauthar and the hand that raises cup
Filled to the brim, and still he holds it up.
The lion crouches, and You bid me bless
His name, and so I raise in righteousness
Once more confession of his royal state.

Deuteronomy 6

4 "Hear, Prince of God! YHWH's Alohim,

Our Judge exalted and supreme,
YHWH is One, not three in a dream.
5 And you'll love YHWH your Alohim
With all your heart and all your soul
And all your might for self control.

Beloved, I thank you for undeserved name

Of Israel in Prince of God's fair claim.
I thank you that You are the Judge supreme
And called Allah, Aloah, Alohim.
But greater gift has never entered mind
Than the mere oneness of Your being's kind.
Though names are full and fancy and find place
To make a stumbling block for every race
As well as road to find Your divine face,
You are one, one alone beyond all time.
You are one in both rhythm and the rhyme.
And being one instead of two or three
Love is perfected impartiality.
How many angels still dance on the dime!

Deuteronomy 32
1 "Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak,
And hear, O earth, my mouth's words meek.
2 Let my teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distil as dew for gain,
As raindrops on the tender herb,
As showers on the grassy curb.
3 For I shall cantillate the name
Of YHWH and publish and proclaim
The greatness of our Alohim.
4 He is the rock, and His works seem
Perfection, for His ways all just
Show Him a God of truth who must
Be without guile, righteous is He
And upright through eternity.

I cry out Huu to end this proclamation.

Yes, just and right is Huu in every nation.
So my Beloved, You are both just and right,
A rock of refuge in the heathen's sight,
Truth is Your name and everything You do
Is justice, so I cry out once more Huu.
If I proclaim Your name as I recite
The Hebrew words wrote here in dark and light,
It is because the Prophet Moses cried
To end his sentence Huu and then he died.
The skies and earth lend ear to hear the sound,
The dew and tender rain fall to the ground
And make prostration on the slender grass.
I too bow down to You before I pass.

26 I would have said "I'll dash in pieces

Until the memory of them ceases
From among men," 27 Had I not feared
The wrath when enemy appeared,
Unless their adversaries be
Misunderstanding, lest declare
"Our hand is high, we cannot see
That it's YHWH that's made all this bare."'
28 "For they're a nation void of sense,
In understanding they are dense.
29 Oh, that they were wise, and that they
Understood this, that they'd relay
Their latter end! 30 How could one chase
A thousand, and two put to race
Ten thousand in flight, but their Rock
Had sold them, barrel, stock and lock,
And YHWH'd surrendered them in block?
31 For their rock is not like our Rock,
Even as judge our enemies.
32 For their vine's of the vine and trees
Of Sodom and fields of Gomorrah,
Their grapes are grapes of gall and sorrow,
Their clusters bitter. 33 Their grape juice
Is serpents' poison for the use
Of cobras' cruel venom's abuse.
34 'Is this not laid Me up in store,
Sealed up among My treasures' floor?
35 Vengeance is Mine, and recompense,
Their foot shall slip in due time hence,
For the day of calamity
Is at hand, and things hastily
Come on them.' 36 "For YHWH will be judge
Of His people and He will budge
In compassion on His servants,
When He sees that their power's hence,
And there's no one remaining, bond
Or free. 37 He'll say 'Where is the wand
Of their gods, the rock in which they
Sought refuge? 38 Who ate fat and whey
Of their sacrifices, and drank
The wine of their drink offering rank?
Let them arise up now and help,
And be a refuge to your whelp.
39 'Now see that I, even I, am He,
And there is no God beside Me,
I kill, I make alive, set free,
I wound and heal, and there is none
To deliver from My hand won.

Beloved, do You mean You are God alone?

I know You reject images of stone,
But do You also cast aside the Three
That make up one god in a Trinity?
Ah, many are the creeds that say You're wrong,
Beloved, God of the Scriptures, and the strong
And mighty El Shaddai of Abraham!
You spoke to Moses as the great I AM,
To David as the one from Your own heart.
All other gods are ones contrived by art
And art's philosophies. That stubborn Me
You choose to call Yourself lets none go free.
So bind my heart and soul to only One,
And let's have trinities and idols done.

40 I raise My hand to heaven, and say

"I live forever, 41 If I weigh
And whet My glittering sword, and My
Hand takes hold on judgement, then I
Will render vengeance to My foes,
And repay those who hate My nose.
42 I'll make My arrows drunk with blood,
And My sword shall devour the flood
Of flesh, with the blood of the slain
And the captives, heads of the main
Leaders of the enemy vain."'
43 "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His folk,
For He'll avenge the blood He spoke
Of His servants, and vengeance make
On His enemies, He'll provide
Atonement for His land and wide
Atonement on His people's side."

Are You, Beloved, a God of mercy and

A God of justice? Let me understand.
This world is full of universal love
Expressed in song and dance and millions of
Land mines in loving silence waiting where
The soft caress of some child's hand in air
Will set off universal love again.
Why do I always meet such love in pain?
Instead of universal love I wait
For mercy in Your coming judgement's gate.
The three great heresies join to agree
That You must come to judge and that quickly.
Come end this universal love with fire
Is Dervish Ali Haydar's firm desire.

1 Samuel 9
18 ¶ Saul drew near Samuel in the gate,
And said “ Please tell me, don’ t be late,
Where is the seer’ s house and gate?”
19 And Samuel answered Saul and said
“I am the seer. Go up led
Before me to the high place, for
You’ ll eat with me today and more,
Tomorrow then I’ ll let you go
And all that’ s in your heart I’ ll show.
20 “ But as for your donkeys that were
Lost three days since, do not incur
Anxiety for them, be sure
They have been found. But from whom does
Israel expect Muhammad’ s laws?
Is it not from you and from all
Your father’ s house by divine call?”

The longing heart awaited year on year,

And centuries passed by in hope and fear,
While faithful ones desired and kept alive
The hope that he would come and he would strive
In the right path. And so all Israel
Looked for the one on whom the balance fell.
Did Saul believe that he would live to be
Muhammad, the Desired, and did he see
Beyond the hopes and dreams that he would fail
To lead the people from behind the veil
And through the Scriptures into perfect ways?
Or did the Seer see beyond the days
And centuries to come, Beloved, to when
A voice inspired would cantillate again?

2 Chronicles 21
16 YHWH stirred up against Jehoram
The spirit of Philistines’
ram
And the Arabians nearby
The Ethiopians’ ally.
17 And they came up into Judah
And invaded it as by law,
And carried away all the things
Found in the king’ s house and its wings,
And also his sons and his wives,
So that there was not a son contrives
To be left to him except for
Jehoahaz, youngest son’ s store.
18 After all this YHWH struck him in
His intestines, despite his sin,
With an incurable disease.
19 It came to pass then as time flees,
After two years his guts came out,
That’ s what his sickness was about,
So he died in severest pain.
The people did not mourn in vain
For him by burning as they had
For his fathers who were not bad.
20 He was thirty-two years old when
He became king, ruled over men
Eight years in all over the city
Jerusalem. It was a pity
He did not turn out to become
Muhammad, the Desired in sum.
Still they interred him in the city
Of David but not in the graves
Reserved for kings with royal staves.

Down to Jehoram every king that reigned

Stepped on the throne amidst applause unfeigned,
As all awaited what might come to light
To show that he was One Desired to fight
Oppression and idolatry and so
Initiate completed faith. But no,
He too passed on to rest within the tomb,
Unmourned perhaps, and undesired till doom.
So David’ s line continued on in hope,
A glimmer light for some while others grope
In heathen blindness till the time of glory
When Gabriel comes to bring the final story.
Beloved, how long we waited for one sent!
How quickly we turned back soon as he went!

2 Chronicles 32
26 Then Hezekiah humbled him
Self for the pride of his heart dim,
He and inhabitants that were
In old Jerusalem to stir
No wrath of YHWH upon them all
In days of Hezekiah’ s fall.
27 And Hezekiah was most great
In riches and honour of state,
And made himself his treasuries
For silver, gold, precious stones, seas
Of spices, shields, for every kind
Of Muhammad’ s instruments, mind,
28 Storehouses for the harvest grain,
Grape juice, and oil, stalls to maintain
All kinds of livestock, folds for sheep
And places for the goats to sleep.

Who knows what instruments of Muhammad

King Hezekiah had. But hope had led
The people to speak of desired things,
Things costly and the precious things of kings,
As instruments desired. The long time wish
That One Desired should come made knife and dish
And jewel and sword shine with anticipation.
The name itself enhanced hand tool and nation.
A household word before his true appearing
Was lost from Scripture through his people’ s fearing.
Desired vessel, vessel made of clay,
Lies broken now, betrayed upon the day
He died. Beloved, keep in my heart what’ s true,
And let me love and know as well as do.

2 Chronicles 36
9 Jehoiachin was eight years old
When he was king, and reigned all told
Three months and ten days in the city
Jerusalem and without pity
He did evil in sight of YHWH.
10 And at the turn of the year who
Summoned there and took him to
Babylon but the king and czar
Reigning there, Nebuchadnezzar,
And took Muhammad’ s instruments
Out from the house of YHWH’ s contents,
And made his brother Zedekiah
King over Judah and all nigh her
Around Jerusalem and higher.

Prophetic act! The king of Babylon

Takes from the house of God things fawned upon,
The golden vessels of Muhammad there
That had been kept since Solomon with care.
From under steady temple lights by night,
The foreign king took all as if by right.
Prophetic act! How many now lay claim
To Ahmed’ s store, and yet despite the same
Are guided by inventions and new ways
Instead of Ahmed’ s prayerful nights and days.
For vessels taken from their resting place
To grace the courts of Babylon a space
No longer guide the faithful in their walk
But only justify vile act and talk.

Psalm 106
13 ¶ They soon forgot His works, did not
wait for His counsel loving taught,
14 But in the wilderness greatly
Lusted to eat their meat freely,
And in the desert tested him,
Alohim with plaints sour and grim.
15 He gave them their request, but sent
Leanness into their soul and spent.
16 They envied Moses in the camp,
And Aaron saint of YHWH and lamp,
17 The earth opened and swallowed there
Dathan, and covered, soil and air,
Faction of Abiram with care.
18 In their midst there was kindled fire
The flames consumed wicked desire.
19 They made a calf in Horeb, and
Worshipped the moulded image grand.
20 Thus they changed their glory into
The ox’ s image that eats dew
Upon the grass. 21 And they forgot
Alohim their Saviour, who taught
Great things in Egypt, 22 Wondrous works
In the land of Ham, awesome dirks
By the Red Sea. 23 Therefore He said
That He would destroy them instead,
Had not Moses His chosen one
Stood before Him in the sun
To bear the breach, to turn away
His wrath, lest He destroy that day.
24 So they despised Muhammad’ s land,
And they believed not his command.
25 They sat complaining in their tents,
Heard not YHWH’ s voice for arguments.

The golden calf was looking back to that

Monolatry of Egypt where they’ d sat
At feet of priest and king. The wilderness
Was too bucolic for such well-read slaves.
A scientific, golden worship raves
In town and ear with civilized finesse.
So even then, before the prophet’ s birth,
They questioned him because of land and worth.
Belovèd, they did not believe his word,
Although their hot souls burning in them stirred
To hear the Unity, its recitation.
A dearer thing it was to be a nation.
Destroy me too, Beloved, wherein I am
Besides You, I’ m a sacrificial lamb.

Song of Solomon 5
10 My loved is fair and ruddy, chief
Among ten thousand, 11 and like leaf
Of finest gold’ s his head, his locks
Are wavy, raven black. 12 His eyes
Are like doves by the river docks
Of waters, washed with milk in wise,
And fitly set. 13 His cheeks are like
A bed of spices, banks that strike
The air with scented herbs. His lips
Are lilies, dripping liquid myrrh.
14 His hands are rods of gold set with
Beryl. His body’ s lovelier,
Carved ivory all inlaid with
Sapphires. 15 His legs are pillars, hips
Of marble set on bases of
Fine gold. His countenance of love
Is like the Lebanon, the fine
Cedars. 16 His mouth is sweet like wine,
Yes, he’ s Mahammadim [Muhammad] indeed.
And this is my beloved decreed,
This is my friend and diadem,
O daughters of Jerusalem!

Oh my Beloved! Give me a pen both white

And ruddy in the flaming, flaming light,
Above ten thousand, head of finest gold,
And wavy locks like jet, the rarest sold,
With eyes like doves and cheeks like bed of spices,
And golden beryl hands above all prices,
And lily lips, beneath, carved ivory
Inlaid with sapphires, marble pillary
Set in their bases of the purest gold,
And excellent like cedars known of old,
With mouth most sweet reciting angel songs,
Come down, Desired, to right all earthly wrongs.
Beloved, Your breath alone makes such a man,
Beloved and friend, as only Your word can.

Sirach 1
12 The fear of YHWH delights the heart,
And gives gladness and joy and part
In life eternal. 13 With him who
Fears YHWH it will go well to end,
At death he will be blessed unkenned.
14 To fear YHWH is wisdom’ s beginning,
She is created for their winning
With the faithful in the womb. 15 She
Made among men eternally
Her foundation, and among their
Descendants she’ ll be trusted fair.
16 To fear YHWH is wisdom’ s full measure,
She satisfies men with her treasure
Of fruits, 17 she fills their whole house with
Things of Muhammad, further with
Her produce she fills their storehouses.
18 The fear of YHWH indeed arouses
The crown of wisdom, making peace [Islam]
And perfect health grow and increase.
What things of Muhammad, Beloved, have You
Bestowed upon the human pack and crew?
Wisdom’ s full measure, and the fear of YHWH,
Treasures of fruits, dates chewed and lovingly
Placed on the infant’ s tongue, and droughts of tea
Made from the rare herbs of theophany?
Well-being in perfection, peace to all
Who find the crown of wisdom, know its call,
These are the things of Muhammad produced
In delights to the heart, in grapes well juiced,
Divided into forty and set out
In silver goblets from a golden spout.
Meet me, Beloved, at Muhammad’ s guest house
To sip the nectar and make drunk the nous.

Isaiah 45
5 ¶ I am YHWH, and there is no other,
There is no god besides Me, brother.
I will gird you and set you free,
Despite you’ re having not known me.
6 That they may know Me from the rising
Of the sun, from the west surprising,
That there is none beside me. I
Am YHWH, and there’ s none else to try.
7 I form the light, create the dark,
I make peace [Islam], make the evil park,
I YHWH do all this on the sly.

Are You the Lord, and is there none but You,

No other god to whom the loved cries Huu?
What proofs You give, Beloved, for Deity,
That though I knew You not You come to Me
To wash and change the diaper that I wear
Unknown to me, an infant needing care!
I thought I was an independent scholar,
Not in a mother’ s care and prone to call her.
You gird me though I do not see Your hand
And do not have the strength to understand.
I have not known though I keep finding You
Each place I turn, in all the things You do.
Beloved, who change the diapers of my flesh,
Let soul with soul and flesh with flesh enmesh.*
20 ¶ “Assemble yourselves and come near,
Draw together, you without fear
Who have escaped from the nations.
They have no knowledge in their buns,
Who carry the wood of their carved
Image, and pray to a god starved
That cannot save. 21 Tell and bring out
Your argument, yes, without doubt
Let them take counsel in their numbers.
Who has declared this without slumbers
From ancient time? Who has told it
From that time? Have not I, YHWH fit?
And there’s no other Alohim
Besides Me, A just Alohim
And Saviour, none beside Me sit.

Is there no just God and a Saviour but

This One, this You beloved, who tell me what
Is counsel from most ancient time? Have they
Searched high and low to find a god at bay
And failed to find any but You? Perhaps
These modern days have filled our ample laps
With technicalities of deep research
And with a microscope we’ ll find the perch
Where sits another god. Or if You’ d rather,
I’ll take a telescope, worked to a lather,
And find behind some distant star Your mate
In hiding, call her so she won’ t be late.
Till then my soul is satisfied to find
Her eye for other gods continues blind.

Jeremiah 3
12 ¶ “
Go and proclaim these words toward
The north, says YHWH the Lord,
‘Return, backsliding Israel,
It was not that My anger fell
On you for your destruction, I
Am merciful,’ says YHWH, ‘ And I
Will not remain angry for aye.
13 Only admit your sinfulness,
That in your doing you transgress
Against YHWH your God, And have scattered
Your charms to strange idols and battered
Beneath each green tree, and have not
Obeyed MY voice as you’ ve been taught,
Says YHWH. 14 “ Return, backsliding folk,”
Says YHWH, “ for I’
m married to you.
I will take you and not revoke,
One from a city and two from
A family, and you shall come
Into the fortress. 15 “And I’ ll give
You shepherds by My own heart’ s sieve,
Who’ ll feed you with knowledge and true
Understanding of what to do.
16 “Then it shall come to pass, when you
Are multiplied, increased in land
In those days and by My command,”
Says YHWH, “ that they will say no more,
‘Ark of the covenant of YHWH.’
It shall not come to their mind, nor
Shall they remember it, nor do
Their visits to it anymore.
17 “At that time Jerusalem shall
Be called the Throne of YHWH, and all
The nations shall be gathered to
Jerusalem, and name of YHWH.
No more shall they follow dictates
Of their evil hearts. 18 “In those states
And days the house of Judah shall
Walk with the house of Israel,
And they shall come together out
Of the land of the north with shout
To the land that I’ ve given as an
Inheritance to partisan.
19 “But I said ‘How can I put you
Among the children and their due
And give to you the land of
Muhammad, heritage of love,
Beauty of the hosts of nations?’
“And I said ‘ You shall in elations
Call Me, “ My Father,”And not turn
Away from Me, nor My love spurn.’

When You, Beloved, brought back from their exile

Israelite folk who had been gone a while,
Brought them from Babylon and from the plains
Of west and north once more to count their gains,
You sorrowed to think they might touch the land,
Muhammad’ s heritage by Your command.
The fortress of Jerusalem You find
Is at the west end far from temple lined.
Let that be for Judah’ s trifled descendants.
Let them take comfort in David’ s new pendants.
But let Your Throne, Beloved, stand bright and bare
For all nations beneath Muhammad’ s care.
And let the bride look from her peaceful tower
Toward the golden spires at the prayer hour.

Jeremiah 25
30 ¶ “Now prophesy against them all
These things, and bring to their recall,
‘YHWH will roar from on high, And send
His voice from His holy hill’ s end,
He will roar mightily against
His fold, He’ll give a shout incensed,
As those who tread the grapes, against
All the inhabitants of the earth dispensed.
31 A noise will come to the earth’ s ends,
For YHWH takes issue and contends
With the nations, He’ ll plead His case
With all flesh. He’ ll give the race
Of the wicked to sword,’ says YHWH.”
32 So says YHWH of hosts: “ It is true,
Disaster shall go forth from nation
To nation, and a conflagration
Of wind raised from the earth’ s far ends.
33 “ And at that day the slain of YHWH
Shall be from one end of earth to
The other end of the earth, they
shall not be mourned, gathered, or buried,
But be dung on the ground uncarried.
34 “ Wail, shepherds, cry! And roll about,
You leaders of the flock devout!
For the days of your slaughter and
Your dispersions are quite at hand,
You shall fall like an instrument
Of Muhammad by accident.

The clay vessels that bring life-giving drink

Were once called vessels of Muhammad. Think
How deep was the desire that he should come
That daily artifacts take up the drum.
Clay vessels hold the living waters to
The thirsty lip, and bring the thing that’s true.
And like clay vessels can be dropped and broken,
The scattered shards and useless are a token
Of what Muhammad is and was to be:
A burning light and warning to the free
That bore his message straight and truthfully,
But then was cast aside without remorse
The meaning and intent of his discourse.
If but to one, let his words live for me.

Hosea 13
9¶“ O Israel, you are destroyed,
But your help is from Me deployed.
10 I’ ll be your King, where is the one
To save you in your cities done?
And your judges to whom you said,
‘Give me a king and prince well-bred’ ?
11 I gave you a king in My ire,
Took him away in My wrath’ s fire.
12 “ Iniquity of Ephraim’ s bound,
His sin’ s stored up. 13 The sorrows found
Of woman in childbirth shall come
Upon him, unwise son and glum,
For he should not remain long where
Children are born to great and fair.
14 “ I’ll ransom them from the grave’ s power,
I will redeem them from death’ s hour.
O Death, I will be for your plagues!
O Grave, I will be your destruction!
Pity is hidden in the dregs
And from My eyes is its obstruction.
15 Though he is fruitful among brothers,
An east wind shall come, wind that smothers,
The spirit of YHWH shall come from
The wilderness, then his spring swum
Shall become dry, and his fountain
Shall be dried up, and He again
Shall plunder the treasure of each
Instrument of Muhammad’ s reach.
16 Samaria’ s held guilty, for
She has rebelled against her store
In Alohim. So they shall fall
By the sword, and their infants all
Shall be dashed in pieces, and their
Women with child ripped open bare.

After the thirsty dryness of the air

That swept the folk of Israel from their share
And saw them flee to Yemen and the care
Of Ethiopia beside the sea,
The full treasure appeared for all to see,
The Desired one, Muhammad by Your hand,
Beloved, who promised treasures in the sand.
Beyond the guilt, the flight, the warring song
His bright words beam across the desert strong
And bring hope to the once rebellious throng
Who find the precious message of peace where
The sword is dropped, the rose has sprung up there.
Your spirit, My Beloved, come from the east
To open the dry fountains for the least.

Nahum 2
1 ¶ He who scatters comes up before
Your face, so man the fort! What’ s more
Keep watch upon the road! Make strong
The flanks! And fortify along
Your forces mightily. 2 For YHWH
Will restore Jacob’ s excellence,
Like Israel’s fineness He shall do,
For those who empty have cast hence
And ruined the branches of their vine.
3 The shields of his mighty men fine
Are made red, and the valiant men
Are dressed in scarlet, chariots then
With flaming torches in the day
Of his preparing, and betray
Spears brandished, 4 And the chariots rage
In the streets, jostle and engage
In the broad roads, they seem like flames,
They run like lightning in their games.
5 He minds his nobles, in their walk
They stumble, make haste to her stalk
And walls, so the defence prepares.
6 The gates of the rivers and stairs
Are opened, the palace dissolved.
7 It is decreed and is resolved:
Captive she shall be led away,
She shall be brought up in that day,
And her maidservants shall lead her
As with the voice of doves aver,
Beating their breasts. 8 Though Nineveh
Of old was like a pool to stay
Of water, now they flee away.
“Halt! Halt!”they cry, but none turns back.
9 Take spoil of silver bric-a-brac!
Take spoil of gold! There is no end
Of treasure or wealth to expend,
Muhammad’ s instruments in all.
10 She’ s empty, desolate, and waste!
The heart melts, knees shake at the call,
Much pain’ s on every side, and all
Their faces are colour of paste.

Through generations Israel’ s folk remained

Desirous of the coming one, sustained
That hope through enemy attack, defeat,
But when wealth and pride overwhelmed conceit,
The prophet lays their fond gropes in the dust.
The treasure has become a spoil that must
Be given to another. Yet the hope
Once wrenched away by grasping interlope
Becomes the prey of all the populace
Of earth dressed in woollen or silken lace.
The fortress gates are broken down and free,
The king’s riches are scattered on the lee,
And You, Beloved, proclaimed to son and all
One and alone, and by Muhammad’ s call.

Haggai 2
1 ¶ In month the seventh, twenty-first
Day of the month, then YHWH’ s word burst
Upon Haggai the prophet, saying:
2“ Speak to Zerubbabel waylaying
The son of Shealtiel, of Judah
The governor, and to Joshua
Son of Jehozadak, high priest,
And to the folk’ s remnant increased,
Saying, 3 ‘Who’ s left of man or beast
Among you who saw temple in
Its former glory sapphirine?
And how then do you see it now?
Compared with that, you must avow
That this is nothing in your sight.
4‘ Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’
Says YHWH, ‘ and increase in your might,
Joshua, son of Jehozadak,
The high priest, and be strong in padock,
All you folk in the land who dwell,’
Says YHWH, ‘ and work, for I’ m with you,’
Says YHWH of hosts. 5 ‘ According to
The word that I agreed with you
When you came out of Egypt’ s land,
So My spirit remains with you,
Do not fear then!’ 6“ For so says YHWH
Of hosts, ‘Once more, a little stand,
I shall shake heaven and earth, the sea
And the dry land, 7 ‘ and I will shake
All nations, and Muhammad be
Of all nations come for My sake,
And I will fill this temple, see,
With glory,’ says YHWH of hosts’ wake.
8‘ The silver’ s Mine, the gold is Mine,’
Says YHWH of hosts. 9 ‘ The glory fine
Of this latter temple shall be
Greater than the former,’ says He,
YHWH of hosts. ‘ And in this place I
Will give Islam,’ says YHWH of sky.”

The glory that David and Solomon

Put on the temple mount in benison
Was thrown down by the king of Babylon.
Rebuilt a shadow of the former grace,
The people wept to see its loss of face,
Until the prophet came to say the place
Would be filled with a greater glory when
The hoped for should appear among mere men.
Jesus walked on the sacred stones set there
And looked forward to see caught up in air
Muhammad and his horse before Your throne.
I grasp the peace of Islam teeth and bone,
And thank You for the message clear and fair,
And bow to You, Beloved, to You alone.

Zechariah 7
8 ¶ The word of YHWH to Zechariah said,
9“ So says YHWH of hosts: ‘ Execute
True justice, show mercy to boot
And compassion, everyone led
To his brother. 10 Do not oppress
The widow or the fatherless,
The alien or yet the poor.
Let none of you plan, evil-doer,
Wickeness in his heart at all
Against his brother to make fall.’
11 “But they refused to heed, and shrugged
Their shoulders, and stopped their ears and plugged
So that they could not hear. 12 “ Yes, they made
Their hearts like flint, refused, gainsaid
The law and the words YHWH of hosts
Had sent by His spirit and boasts
Through the former prophets. So great
Wrath came from YHWH of hosts on state.
13 “Therefore it happened, just as He
Proclaimed and they’ d not hear freely,
So they called and I would not listen,”
Says YHWH of hosts. 14 “ But I shall christen
Them scattered with a whirlwind in
All the nations where they’ d not been.
So the land became desolate
After them, so that no one passed gate
Or returned, for they made the land
Of Muhammad desolate land.”

The promise You made to Abram one night

That his descendant would have the land’ s right
Was truly promise of the message bright
To live the good life in Your loving sight.
Rebellion against Your word sealed the fate
Of those who would not follow to Your gate,
But set their hearts like flint and so the land
Was desolation like flint in their hand.
Repentance for the violence and woe
Is all it takes to make the bare field grow.
The promise of Abram is resurrected
In the prophet You finally selected.
Let me return to that one promised land
Which is obedience beneath Your hand.

Revelation 14
6 ¶ Then I saw another angel
Fly in the midst of heaven a spell,
Having everlasting gospel
To preach to those who live on earth,
To every nation, tribe of worth,
And tongue, and people without dearth.
7 Saying with a loud voice, “ Fear God
And give Him glory on the sod,
For the hour of His judgment’ s come,
And in prostration worship Him
Who made heaven and earth not dim,
Sea, springs of water, all in sum.”

The only place, Belovèd, in Your book

Of revelation, hard as I may look,
Tells what the content of the Gospel is.
A hundred times the word appears but fizz
Is all that floats upon the Gospel glass.
The Gospel is just three commands that pass
On two explanatory words. Fear God
Alone and not the neighbour’ s wife, and trod
The way in gratitude to Him, so when
The judgement comes all things shall be well then.
The third command is that we pray to You
In earth prostration since the thing is true
That You have made all things, alone Creator,
And not space, time, nor any other satyr.*