First came a strong wind ripping off rooftops like bottle caps
And bending lampposts down to the ground
Then came a thunder shattering my windows
But you were not that strong wind or that mighty sound
That left the barn in shambles, the rabbit hutch in ruins
The split-rail fence splintered and the curtains torn
All the cows out from the pastures trampling on the pumpkins
And the horses from their stables ambling in the corn
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
I've flown unnoticed just behind you like an insect
And I've watched you like a falcon from a distance as you pa**ed
Then swooped down to be nearer to the traces of your footsteps
To pick the fallen grain from the pressed down dirt and crooked gra**
And I'm gonna take that grain and I'm gonna crush it all together
Into the flour of a bread as small and simple and sincere
As when the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another
The gentle cup of mutual surrender tears
A fish swims in the sea while the sea is in a certain sense
Contained within the fish, oh, what am I to think
Of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes
Could not explain if all the forest trees were pens
And all the oceans ink?
(Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam)
Nastagh-firuka ya Hokan
Ya Dhal-Jalah wal-Ikram
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
(Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam)
Ya Halim, ya Qahhar
Ya Muntaqim, ya Ghaffar
La Ilaha ilallahu, Allahu akbar