The Smell Of Success

In the name of Allah the most Merciful Beneficent

Salaam,

The Smell of Success

The scorching heat, the toiling man,
The sweating visage of ploughman,
The hard work in field
Is motivated by the desire to succeed?

The day long labour of farmers
with untiring effort to produce.
The tilling of parched lands
With sharp plough and hardened hands.

I wonder at this relentless labor,
I ask them – why do they toil?
Why is the scorching heat not an impediment?
Why does the tiring labour not dampen spirit?

The struggling , striving youths,
Shunning beauties, running after goals,
Forsaking material leisures,
Not seeking physical pleasures.

The intoxication of youth is ineffective,
The rapture of beauty is unattractive,
The lively and colorful world
Is not enticing enough?

Im amazed at this indifference,
I ask them of their negligence
For this enrapturing colorful life
Why they are adamant with their strife ?

The steady light, the glow of knowledge,
Repelling darkness, killing ignorance,
The strong will to replace the evil
With good and what is noble.

The unwavering struggle against ignorance,
The unshaken fight against intemperance,
Why the iron-will of reformers
Is not affected by the obstacles?

I got astonished to see this resolve
The string will not to renounce,
I asked them- why do they not-
Give up struggle and leave the path?

They all respond with equal zeal,
They are in search of the bliss,
The bliss of achieving their goals
The smell of success which compensates all woes!!

This smell is better than the rest in shade,
This smell is worth shunning the physical pleasures,
This smell is mightier than the threats
Faced by reformers in noble pursuits.

O! Lord the worldly goals
Lose their shine as time rolls,
Ends become mirages,
The struggle a vain effort.

O! Lord the true success
Belongs to one who does not regret
His efforts done in this world
When he will be raised in “Mahshar”

All the rest is an illusion
Done by those bewitched by delusion
Their efforts bear no fruits
As the material delusion wastes their pursuits.

The struggle done for Thy pleasure
Is truly rewarding in nature!!
Its shine fades out never
As its significance lasts forever.

O! Lord make us see
the path leading to true bliss,
whose success is not illusionary,
the path which is blessed by Thee!!!



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With request to remember in duas!

Wassalaam,
Asad