Beware—
Beware as you enter Masjid in the Park
On this blessed Friday
Beware of the Angels
Who keep attendance of those
Who come with sincere hearts
Imploring their Lord
“Open for us doors of Your Mercy”
Beware—
As you enter the Masjid in the Park
On this blessed Friday
O those who preach sabr
Not by the way of the blessed Messenger of Mercy
But by the example of holocaust survivors
Beware—
As you enter the Masjid in the Park
On this blessed Friday
Of those who have now banned the one, who conceived,
The Masjid in the Park
Beware—
Of those who are violating
the Law of your Rabb
By the law of “Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta”
Beware—
Of those who have now joined the ranks of those
who hinder and prevent Muslims
from entering one of the houses of Allah, (sūrat l-fatḥ:25)
Beware—
As you enter the Masjid in the Park
On this blessed Friday
Of those who came to the one whom they have now banned
For years, to learn their Qur’an
They came with ghulf and left with ghulf
They came with their Islam in their closets
And when they heard of the Masjid Project
They pocketed it secretly
In their stony hearts
And smiled and smiled and hugged and hugged
Then they came with a design where in
Men and women were to pray side by side
With nothing between them
Beware—
When you enter the Masjid in the Park
On this blessed Friday
Of those who now control its Minbar
From where they preach
Their perverse dīn
In violation of the Law of your Rabb
Beware—
As you enter the Masjid in the Park
On this blessed Friday
Of those whom the Angels are cursing
Because they prevent Muslims from entering the Masjid
Beware—
O Muslims of the Park
As you enter the Masjid in the Park
On this blessed Friday
Of the day when
You will be asked
What did you do to prevent this munkar
Beware—
—lest you claim ignorance—
The blessed Prophet has told you:
“He who amongst you sees a munkar should change it by his hand; if he does not have the ability to do so, then by his tongue; if he does not have the ability to do so, then by his heart and that is the weakest of Īmān.”
Beware—
As you enter the Masjid in the Park
On this blessed Friday
Of those who have swallowed the Minaret
Of the Masjid in the Park
Trembling with fear of people while
Forgetting the fear of their Lord
Beware—
O Muslims of the Park
Of another Garden that awaits those fear their Lord
Beware—
As you enter the Masjid in the Park
On this blessed Friday
Of those who pocketed a thousand US dollar donation from Jerusalem
But hid in their encased hearts
The supplication of our dear Shaykh—
Abū Yūsuf Yousef Abū Sneineh
the Imām and Khaṭīb of Masjid al-Aqṣā—
Who prayed—
In the sacred precinct of the farthest Masjid—
For the Masjid in the Park—
A prayer in which were joined
Our dear brother in Jerusalem
Who sent a thousand US dollars your way—
And this faqīr
who has now been banned from entering the Masjid in the Park
By those who—in violation of the Law brought by the Chosen one—
have invoked an act of “Her Masjesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Legislative Assembly of Alberta”
Beware—
My dear fellow Muslims of this environ
As you enter
The Masjid in the Park
On this blessed Friday
Of those who trembled to see
The Majestic āyat al-Kursī
Inscribed in the immaculate hand of the Timuri Prince
Who calligraphed
for the missing Minaret of the Masjid in the Park
Allah: There is no deity but He—the Living, the All-Sustaining;
Neither dozing overtakes Him nor sleep;
To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth;
Who can intercede with Him without His permission?
He knows what is before them and what is behind them;
while they encompass nothing of His knowledge, except what He wills;
His Kursiyy extends over the Heavens and the Earth;
and it does not weary Him to protect them
He is the All-High, the Supreme.
The Missing Minaret—
Of the Masjid in the Park—
Still yearning to see that Majestic verse—soaring high above the creatures—
Whose fear caused those to tremble
Who have now banned the one who asked them why did you do that!
O Muslims of this environ
As you enter
The Masjid in the Park
On this blessed Friday
Ask those who now control its doors
By what right have they taken over
This house of Allah in whose foundations is the blood and sweat of the one
Whom they have now banned to enter
Ask them—
O Muslims of the Park
How did you spend our hard-earned three plus millions
That we donated to construct this house of Allah
How much of that did you throw—
To the wolfs of your egos
O Muslims in the Park
As you enter
The Masjid in the Park
On this blessed Friday
Remember, in your supplications,
The one who has been banned
From the Masjid in the Park
His only “crime” being—prevention of the munkar
following the path shown to us by the chosen one
The beloved of our Lord— The Mercy to all the creation
Upon whom be the choicest blessings and salutations
إِنَّمَا يَعْمُرُ مَسَـٰجِدَ ٱللَّهِ مَنْ ءَامَنَ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْـَٔاخِرِ وَأَقَامَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَءَاتَى ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ
وَلَمْ يَخْشَ إِلَّا ٱللَّهَ فَعَسَىٰٓ أُولَـٰٓئِكَ أَن يَكُونُوا مِنَ ٱلْمُهْتَدِينَ
Masjid in the Park – A place yet to be (cis-ca.org).
Please visit this website for documentation which is being uploaded as time permits.
Friday, August 9, 2024
