mazHur
10-16-2007, 02:45 AM
The Divine Tragedy
by Mazhar Butt
Can I ask you a question my Lord,
A question which boggles my mind
And wrenches my heart
With every tick of the clock.
Well, since your grace has acceded
And given me leave to ask ,
Here I go:
Was the treatment you meted out
To our father Adam and his mate Eve
So grievously unbearable so as to
Attract your terrible wrath and impatience
In throwing them into this world
To suffer until doomsday?
With due apology I may say
You were not kind and merciful
In viewing just one simple mistake
On a single instance of disobedience
Nor it was fair of you to give them
A blanket to recurrently do the same sin-
And more- unashamedly on this earth.
It was not fair of you to treat them,
The perfection of whole nature
In such a cruel mode and manner;
You could have,if you wanted, forgiven them
If not you could have sent them to hell
Or if hell was not ready at that time
Or you hadn't got at the idea yet,
To waiting in the purgatory
Or, you could have exiled them to some other world
Where the sins they committed couldn't be repeated
My Lord, I think you erred in judgment
And took a reckless step, perhaps, I presume
At the instance of your sole advisers
None other than your army of angels.
May I say you did a great injustice to men
In ousting them from their birth place
And throwing them into this hell of earth
To suffer and die
You could have done better
To keep and love and save them
From imposed sufferings and circuitry of sins
Preventing them from turning into slaves of belly and below
In the far and near of this ghoulish earth of yours.
If Adam and Eve were apples of your eye
There was no need for you to clone them
To replicate them in billions
And thrust them into sinful lives
Replete with sufferings and some piety,though.
Wasn't it easy for you to plan differently
Easy for you easy for the humankind?
Was it your desire to have a fleet of human population
Engaged in all sorts of good and evil
simply to appease and make you happy?
Couldn't you rest content with one Adam
And One Eve in paradise?
Was it not possible for you to forgive them
For their first sin, sin simpliciter?
You could have decorated your paradise
And enriched it with human replicas
By simply pulversizing some of Adam's ribs
And converting them into Eves of all sorts
Without making them pass through
The pains and pangs and pleasures of biological burdens,
The curse of hunger, appetite, libido, satiation and orgasm
Oh, Lord, have you ever thought
Your haste has brought untold sufferings
To your beloved children
What you could do so simply and easily
With your touted mercy and magnificence
Remained undone for ununderstandable reasons
All you did may be fine in your own right
But then why these promises of deferred reward
In the hereafter?
Why this roar of punishment in the after-life
For things you ordained Satan to enforce
Upon your children?
Why, why all this tribulation
This undeserving treatment
To your dearest ones on earth-
Us, the Humans?
by Mazhar Butt
Can I ask you a question my Lord,
A question which boggles my mind
And wrenches my heart
With every tick of the clock.
Well, since your grace has acceded
And given me leave to ask ,
Here I go:
Was the treatment you meted out
To our father Adam and his mate Eve
So grievously unbearable so as to
Attract your terrible wrath and impatience
In throwing them into this world
To suffer until doomsday?
With due apology I may say
You were not kind and merciful
In viewing just one simple mistake
On a single instance of disobedience
Nor it was fair of you to give them
A blanket to recurrently do the same sin-
And more- unashamedly on this earth.
It was not fair of you to treat them,
The perfection of whole nature
In such a cruel mode and manner;
You could have,if you wanted, forgiven them
If not you could have sent them to hell
Or if hell was not ready at that time
Or you hadn't got at the idea yet,
To waiting in the purgatory
Or, you could have exiled them to some other world
Where the sins they committed couldn't be repeated
My Lord, I think you erred in judgment
And took a reckless step, perhaps, I presume
At the instance of your sole advisers
None other than your army of angels.
May I say you did a great injustice to men
In ousting them from their birth place
And throwing them into this hell of earth
To suffer and die
You could have done better
To keep and love and save them
From imposed sufferings and circuitry of sins
Preventing them from turning into slaves of belly and below
In the far and near of this ghoulish earth of yours.
If Adam and Eve were apples of your eye
There was no need for you to clone them
To replicate them in billions
And thrust them into sinful lives
Replete with sufferings and some piety,though.
Wasn't it easy for you to plan differently
Easy for you easy for the humankind?
Was it your desire to have a fleet of human population
Engaged in all sorts of good and evil
simply to appease and make you happy?
Couldn't you rest content with one Adam
And One Eve in paradise?
Was it not possible for you to forgive them
For their first sin, sin simpliciter?
You could have decorated your paradise
And enriched it with human replicas
By simply pulversizing some of Adam's ribs
And converting them into Eves of all sorts
Without making them pass through
The pains and pangs and pleasures of biological burdens,
The curse of hunger, appetite, libido, satiation and orgasm
Oh, Lord, have you ever thought
Your haste has brought untold sufferings
To your beloved children
What you could do so simply and easily
With your touted mercy and magnificence
Remained undone for ununderstandable reasons
All you did may be fine in your own right
But then why these promises of deferred reward
In the hereafter?
Why this roar of punishment in the after-life
For things you ordained Satan to enforce
Upon your children?
Why, why all this tribulation
This undeserving treatment
To your dearest ones on earth-
Us, the Humans?