Durr-e-Sameen

  • 1. How These Poem Got Translated

    What follow are, in no particular order, some thoughts on this subject. Slowing the creational process down to the speed of thought is crucial; without it, poetry simply can’t happen. This applies equally to the original versifying (in the Urdu and Farsi languages, as done by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad) as it does to translating…

  • 10. The Holy Quran is Untainted by Fables (Part 3)

    All those trees that had life then grew verdant—aye, with new life they did burgeon;So profusely the bore fruit that their branches they did burden Its tidal waves crashed, wiping away the damning dikes of (religious) doubt;Crashing straight through the mound of irreligiousness with its clout The Quran leads one to the One Who Created—it…

  • 11. The Holy Quran is Untainted by Fables (Part 4)

    That religion, though—one built on the shifting sands of tales—one cannot scale;It’s not a religion, really, but a pale, jagged scaffold of fables, one that impales Can one rely on fables, can one, in full frankness?Fables are—are they not?—replete with hollow crassness That religion is true which doesn’t tell—or sell—tales;But instead—through the vitality of living…