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Take my Hand by  Nader_Khan

incidental fixes
have fouled up our wishes
O we gave up working hard
for easy and delicious

a whole lot of energy
gone away we wait and see
we're looking for a reason
to stay upright and on our feet

God provides the pages
the ink and blood of ages
on a disappointing chapter
we go and ask the sages
they say

O Lord you gonna' make up time
make up time as if you gonna' die

give up it's everything we've got and
no more it's all that we can give and
we'll die it was not enough
we'll cry for time
time

time

now whether your bars are made of iron
or your bars are made of gold
you're still locked up in this prison, boy
a young man now grown old
made tired by the wanting of
what could not be had
and the selling off of everything
that would've made you glad
so glad

and the poor among us thriving
made holy by their cries
and there's freedom in their nothing
there's light within their eyes
where only darkness remains
in the hearts of those who strive
with might and main
to stake their claim
in this fool's paradise

if somebody
body
weren't somebody
body
that you knew at all
would you build him up?
would you tear him down?
catch him when he falls?
or would you light the stove
set the pot
please make sure that water's hot for tea
because your secret
your secret
your secret's safe with me

with every buck you lay the mortar
and every coin you lay the brick
and so you build an ivory tower
to contain a heart that's sick
with fear that maybe someday
it'll all come crumbling down
and they'll find you were a hypocrite
when they come gathering round

[now you’re sippin'- take it easy- 'atta boy now- o you let it all out]

if somehow we've been silenced
told to mend along
worn out by the noise they make
with money how they dazzle with their song

and if they have a purpose, Lord
I'll share it with you now
a quiet room is sparkling clear
their message well received and you're cut off

Lord in this silence don't hear no noise of good nor evil
Lord God can't take it rising fever's gonna' break me

but if we came together, love
to sound out our souls
the danger in our numbers, boy
like fire born of grey and dusty coals
'til then we dig to bury
everything we love
in pursuit of dreams they made up
mother, father, wake me- I need God

if we sing softly Lord we'll cry so loud

we've been silenced

[gotta' gun, bam bam]

silenced

Ama Zilna - Benammi

Muhammad Al Husayn - Mawlay

Kalimataan By Talib Al Habib

LANGUAGE: English

SONGWRITER: Nader Khan

INSPIRATION: 
A song based on the quoted couplet by Maulana (Mevlana) Jelaluddin Rumi. This song was first conceived of as a poem. Its tune is based on a Turkish song that I’d heard being performed by Tevfik Baba and The Jerrahi Society of Canada at a devotional concert many years ago in Toronto.

LYRICS:
“My heart, like a mirror, is silent and speaking, in the hands of an Amazing Mirror Holder, 
For when moment by moment, there shines in the mirror, an amazing figure of beauty.”
- Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi, The Mathnawi

As a show of love and fidelity, to my beloved, so sublime
I sought to give the most beautiful gift, that had ever been seen in our time
I searched and searched in all the lands, for that very special gift
I trekked the valleys of the earth, and the mountains, and the cliffs

And all the while I kept saying, “Sall Allahu `ala Muhammad”
Praying that Allah would unveil the gift to me

So many things I saw in the earth, which with beauty were endowed
But when I drew close to pick them up, I was spoken to from a cloud
“Why to the presence of the sun, do you take a candle frail?”
“Why to the ocean deep and blue, do you take a water pail?”

And all the while I kept saying, “Sall Allahu `ala Muhammad”
Praying that Allah would unveil the gift to me

Despair would’ve got the better of me, had I not turned to my lord
He sent mevlana to my help, and hope was then restored
Mevlana came to me and said, “Take this advice, my son
The gift you seek you’ll never find, except with your beloved one”

And all the while I kept saying, “Sall Allahu `ala Muhammad”
Praying that Allah would unveil the gift to me

He said “if she is, to your own eye, the most beautiful one around
Greater in beauty than her own image, such a thing shall never be found”
“Take to her this mirror do, and make your poem terse”
“Make your gift a better gift, with a couplet from my verse”

And all the while I kept saying, “Sall Allahu `ala Muhammad”
Praying that Allah would unveil the gift to me

He cleaned my mirror of mud and grime, and etched in with his hand
The verse I quote before my own, a verse with wisdom grand
So praise Allah, and peace and blessings do send on his chosen one
Praise him again for a “nader” gift he unveiled to a lowly one

And all the while I kept saying, “Sall Allahu `ala Muhammad”
Thanking Allah that He had unveiled the gift to me

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