Ta’if (14th October 2018)

She broke you even more

In a year already full of sorrows

The blood gushed out of your wounds

And ran down your tired legs

Soaking your sandals 

As if you had gone wading

In a river of water so red.

Airmataku mengalir laju

Mengenangkan keadaanmu

Ketika engkau dihina

Menjadi ejekan dan bahan ketawa

Dilempar cacian, dibaling batu

Disakiti dan dizalimi mereka

Yang dihijabi hati dan mata

Dari mengenali Dia Yang Satu.

A true Prophet that you are

When an angel appeared, armed with mountains

Who would have wiped them out

In a blink of an eye, in a split second 

If you’d only say ‘Aye!’ 

And yet you had said ‘No.’

Perchance their children

Or their children’s children

In a future, not too far

Would believe in Tawheed

The Oneness of The One - 

The Most High.

Leaving Ibn Abbas Mosque, my heart was heavy

But the Ta’if you once knew was no more

The descendants of those kafiruns

Whom you shielded from Allah’s wrath

Now walk around the city

With Nur in their hearts, your legacy

For Allah’s rewards are a thousandfold

For that one time when you showed 
Kindness, forgiveness, and mercy
To those who called you their enemy. 

Ya Rasulullah, salallaahu alaihi wasallam!

(Note: When asked by Saidatina Aisyah RA about his toughest time during his da’wah, Prophet Muhammad PBUH had answered ‘Ta’if.’)

By:

Zaie Hamzah

16th September 2019

Mont Kiara