Choice is individual's conviction
Make the bearer feel strongest and adamant
Many times, it gives no room for logic and rational thought
Difficult to enforce on others
For it brings solace to the bearer
Their Choice, not my choice
Un-monotheistic, their choice
Full of deceitful hope and confusion
Soothsayers, fortunetellers and palmists their companion
Total trust they place on them
To travel they consult them
Before eating they consult them
For all decisions, they seek their counsel
Their Choice, not my choice
They nagged me for not equal in thought
They tagged me different names
But a question I keep asking
What if they are in a community for months?
Devoid of their consultants
How then can they make decisions?
What if their consultant dies!!!
would they choose another consultant ?
Alas!!! They have no answers.
My choice, not their choice
It is of fear and hope
That of a believer
"Istikhara", my source of seeking God's counsel
Total trust I place on it
For I deal with God
My choice and their choice
My approach is to persuade
Theirs is to compel
I only persuade and never enforce "Istikhara"
But they keep enforcing Soothsaying
Which will never happen, Allah's permission
For any trial I faced
They attribute to being anti-soothsaying
But their fear, my joy.
They scare me of death
As if they own key to death
Believing one must "dira" (devilish)
To succeed in one's chosen profession
With smile, I respond
My trust in Allah unshaken
For He deals with his friends in calamity and triumph
In calamity, I need patience
In triumph, I give thanks
For what await one after the duo
Is mercy cum guidance.
Prayer I keep rendering for them
Allah alone can guide and lead astray
My choice! My choice! My choice!
For Allah's guidance, my choice for them.
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