One Allah exists
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Let them go on inciting malice, hatred reviling blame game.
But we will work for equality, peace
gifted by Allah to us against them.
Let them seek narrowness, pigeon-hole and muddy pond.
We want open sky and light everyway in love-bond.
Let them ask for servile life,
But we shall be martyrs for good deed.
Those cowards are in fear of death;
We are ready to court death for virtuous cause indeed!
They wouldn’t die the hero’s death but hide in arum jungle.
But they will raise a lot of hue and cry in colossal wrangle.
They look lifeless. Their tongues come out now to lust and greed.
They are ghastly creature haunting lust indeed!
We are youthful people of Bengal, and fearless to embrace death.
We look at them as flies, ants and the like
So we don’t kill them but feel piety to keep their breath.
They do not believe in our humanly welfare which is yet to come.
Because those unbelievers are agents of the Satan
wrong-doers, carry on wrong term.
They assume that people are faithless
who will fight each other.
But we will say that we have faith in one Allah
having human relation forever.
Let them make conflicting breach of peace,
we will ask for His pardon and love.
Let the ghosts ask for crematory and grave;
We will ask for rose garden i.e. peace-dove.
Look at the terrible curse, man
at the western hemisphere today.
They will turn back from enjoying possession
of undesirable wealth and sensual gay.
Rather they will ask for peace and equality for everyone.
The ugly looking owls are foretelling that
the sun will not rise; the crows will not peck on his bald head
let their nails and beaks decay.
But the believers do not say
because they need light, more light.
They do not want this oppression and
helplessness in the conflict.
They say that if we pray together to Him,
He will bestow upon us the pleasure
of every day’s Eid on this dusty world.
They want to bring rainbows from the seven skies;
Allah is the great Benefactor.
So He gives what one needs
Those who like to bring conflicts and bad time
You will see that they will get what they desire.
Let them go on their way, let’s go on our way.
They want the reign of the demon,
we want Allah’s reign where always remain
joyful pleasure except war.
We will not feel anything wanting
Everything will be filled in by our Lord.
Whereas the vultures pick up quarrel
with the corpse among themselves
because its their choice
Let Allah save us that
we should never go that way.
One Allah is our Lord. He is exquisitely Beautiful.
Let all bad become good on earth and good be best;
This malicious darkness goes off by the light of love;
Let all badness go out from the mind of human beings
And Lord’s light lit everyone’s room and everyone’s way.
They are thugs who loot
the properties of others creating riots,
they are greedy, they will not look into the path of Allah;
how fearless and clean and sacred that path is that!
Day and night they want badness, conflicts;
The ghosts want ugliness in rhymes
and bad smell of milled corpse
Those soldiers of Allah are yet to come
who will strike and drive them out from the country.
These are bad-traders who are ever known looters.
They are the vampires. Never go into their fold,
for they spread the net around them
but they are yet to see the sea-waves of lives.
In each night and in each breath at day and night
Duldul horse takes you to ride on its back
and Allah will give you a sword in your hand.
Those who sleep in idleness and in cowardliness
They will neither see sun nor moon, they’re decrepit.
Those who are ever young man, come on,
Come on young at heart, spell out all lethargies
To give up your lives.
They throw mud thinking it’s revile;
But we will greet you with scented flowers and say, Allah is ever alive.
(Original Bengali poem : Ek Allah Zindabad)
Translated by M. Mizanur Rahman
