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    Exodus 81 And YHWH spoke to Moses, "Go toPharaoh and tell him, 'Thus says YHWH,"Let My people go, that they may

    Serve Me. 2 "But if you block their way,Indeed, I will smite all your landWith frogs. 3 "And so the river sandShall bring forth frogs abundantly,Which shall go up and come freelyInto your house, into your room,Upon your bed, in your costume,Into the houses of your servants,On your people, for your observance,Into oven and kneading bowl.4 "And the frogs shall come on your soul,On your people, on all your servants."'"5 Then YHWH spoke to Moses, "Say toAaron, 'Stretch out without adoAnd tend your rod over the streams,Over rivers, over ponds' gleams,And cause frogs to come up uponThe land of Egypt before dawn.'"6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over

    The waters of Egypt, and roverFrogs came up and covered the landOf Egypt. 7 The magicians' handOf their enchantments did so too,And brought up frogs and not a fewOn the land of Egypt. 8 Then PharaohCalled to come faster than an arrowBoth Moses and Aaron, and said"Entreat YHWH that He maybe led

    To take away the frogs from meAnd from my people and country,And I will let the people go,That they may sacrifice to YHWH."9 And Moses said to Pharaoh, "MayAli be honoured! When, I pray,Shall I intercede for you, forYour servants, and your people more,To destroy the frogs from you andYour houses, thatthey mayleave land,Remaining in the river strand?"

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    Beloved, destroy the frogs from me and mine,The frogs of unbelief as well as wineOf false belief, and honoured be Ali

    Whom You appointed at Ghadir to beThe Prophet's viceroy and the one to speakIn favour of Your law, defend the weak,And raise the banner of the UnityOf God as one, Muhammad and Ali.Some flatter kings and bow before their reign,And greet them with the finest words in vain,For none of them seek justice nor attainTo right rule in a world of loss and gain.But Moses greets the king with right submissionTo God's appointed. Let that be my mission.

    Exodus 201 Then Alohim spoke all these things2 I am YHWH Alohim whose wingsBrought you from Egypt and slavery.3 You shall have no gods except Me.4 No graven image shall you make,Nor heavenly likeness shall you take,

    Nor from the earth beneath nor fromThe waters under earth in sum.5 Before them you shall not prostrate,Nor shall you worship them in state.For I YHWH am your Alohim,A jealous husband it may seemWho limits evil on the scoreOf generations to not moreThan three or four, what parents do

    Affecting children's children too,By the hate that they bear to Me.6 But multiplying wonderfullyTo thousands of their generationsEffects of any cultivationsOf good they might do who love MeAnd keep My statutes faithfully.7 Do not lift up the name of YHWHYour Alohim in vain, for whoDoes so shall surely not receiveAcquittal from YHWH and reprieve.

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    8 Remember now the Sabbath dayTo keep it holyevery way.9 Six days work and do all your tasks,10 But seventh day's a rest that asks

    YHWH your Alohim to keep well,Do no work in it, buy or sell.In it you shall not work nor labour,You, son nor daughter, nor the neighbourMan nor the maid in your employ.Let even animals take joy,And every visitor that's strayedYour gates. 11 For in six days YHWH madeThe pair of skies and earth and stayedTo make the sea and what's in it.Then He lighted on seventh dayTo take comfort in it as fit,And kneeling blessed the Sabbath day,So did YHWH sanctifying it.12 Give honour to your mom and dad,So that your life maynotbe sad,Butlong upon the ground YHWH's given,And Alohim for you to live in.13 You shall not kill. 14 And you shall not

    Commit adultery. 15 Do notSteal. 16 Do not bear against your neighbourFalse witness. 17 Do not covet neighbourOf his house, do not covet hisWife, nor his male worker, nor hisFemale worker, oxen, nor hisDonkey nor anything which isYour neighbour'sproperty or labour.

    The Lord God spoke these words to sayHow we should walk the narrow way."I am the Lord your God who broughtYou out from bondage" and then taughtThe holy name YHWH AlohimSupreme Reality to beamLight on the truth that God is one.If any man or mother's sonTry to divide the human race,He disfigures the divine face.Nothing at all in all creation,

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    Which is God's image of elation,Can give the model whereby HeMay be carved in His symmetry.Let me not grasp an image here

    As though the waverings that appearWere worthy of worship and fear.The workings of theologyAre fornicate idolatry,Since any concept I confessCan only be the outer dress.Let me not bow to what is knownNor err about what has been shown.God's jealousy arouses wrath,And yet He limits on the pathThe natural effects of wrongAnd multiplies in grateful songEach act of goodness that men doA thousand times beyond the true.His mercy needs no sacrificeBeyond the love that will sufficeObeying His commandments' voice:His name uplifted to make choiceRepenting every act mistaken

    And restituting what was takenEnds in the declaration thatA man's not guilty where he sat.Let me lift up on Sabbath dayThat holy name by which I prayAnd set aside my daily tasksTo do what His commandment asks.It refers to more than a day,But to the golden, blessd way

    That all the great must treat the small:Father to son and at her callMother to daughter and the bossTo worker, who has rights not loss,The landsman to the refugeeCast up a stranger on his lea,And every human being toThe animal and nature's crew.The ethics of the Sabbath castA limit on the right to lastOf every strong upon the least:

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    Sabbath divides man from the beastDenying in a world of careSurvival of fittest to bear,Instead the duty of each one

    To recognize a limit doneOn power and rights not to be wonBut inborn for servant and son.The Sabbath takes away the needOf labour union, nature's creedBy limiting both power and greed.The arbitrary time it comesUndermines every despot's sums.In all the divine law I seeOnly one law to make men free,A positive act to be doneTo lengthen life beneath the sun.The only thing a man can doThat remains on earth right and trueIs honour to his mom and dad.Every other monument's sadAttempt at doing well, but cladIn idol clothing of the cad.Let me not take another's life

    Nor enter in the door of strife,Competing in vain pursuit ofEmpty status and honour's love.The one I strike in striking himIs also my own self, thought grim,And every self is but the glowOf one true Self where God will show.Therefore adultery's a crimeAnd stealing is to share the rhyme

    Of that delusion that makes someSuperior for wealth and gum.Let me bear no false witness toAnother's act that is not true,But in my speech and what I doRecognize God's face in the crew.The symbol and the chains of powerInvested in contracts an hourOr in houses or in the wealthOf workers human or in stealthBestial to create and transport

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    Goods for profit from store to fort,Let me not covet. Let me goNaked upon the earth to showDependence on Lord God alone,

    To howl aloft and chew the bone,To find gold and diamonds are strewnIn plenty to whom hark the moon,And in my simple fakir wayI chase my tail instead to pray,And cast aside all that is vain,Says dervish Thomas McElwain.

    Numbers 21

    10 The folk of Israel now moved onAnd camped in Oboth until dawn.11 And they journeyed from Oboth andCamped at Ije Abarim's stand,In the desert before Moab,Toward the sunrise at a stab.12 From there they removed and encamped,In valley of Zered they tramped.13 From there they removed and encamped

    On the other side of Arnon,In the wilderness that goes onFrom border of the Amorites,For Arnon's Moab's border rights,Between Moab and Amorites.14 Therefore it is said in the BookOf the Wars of YHWH if you look,"Waheb in Suphah, where are brooksOf the Arnon, 15 and slope of brooks

    That reaches to dwelling of Ar,And lies on Moab's border far."16 From there they wentto Beer, the wellWhere YHWH said to Moses a spell,"Gather the folk together, IShall give them water by and by."17 Then Israel sang this song "AliExalted one's a well to see!"All of you sing to him freely.18 The well the leaders sank, dug byThe nation's bestnobles, and by

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    The lawgiver, and with their staves.And from the wilderness and graves,They go to Mattanah, 19 and fromMattanah to Nahaliel come,

    From Nahaliel to Bamoth,20 And from Bamoth, the valley's growthThat is in Moab's land, to topOf Pisgah which looks down to stopUpon the wasteland's behemoth.

    The well of Kauthar, my Beloved, is soonExposed to Paradise, its trees and boon.The nobles of the nation dug in searchOf it from desert palm to northern birch,The leaders sank it deep to find their worth,And Moses, long before dear Ali's birth,Sang in the Law the praises due to himThat You appointed from the desert rimOf Ghadir. So the people sang in omenAnd prophecy so loud and clear that no manCould gainsay guidance set by God aloneAnd sure as carved, engraved in granite stone.I sing this song, O my Beloved, to You:

    Ali exalted is a well and true.

    Numbers 237 And he took up his oracleAnd said in oratorical"Balak the king of Moab's broughtMe from Aram, from where he soughtThe mountains of the east. 'Come, curseJacob for me, and come not worse,

    Denounce Israel!' 8 "How shall I curseWhom El God has not cursed? And howShall I denounce whom YHWH has nowNot denounced? 9 For from the top ofThe rocks I see him, and aboveFrom the hills I look at him, there!A lone people dwelling in air,Not reckoning itself amongThe nations. 10 "Who can count the sungDust of Jacob, or number oneFourth of Israel when counting's done?

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    To You, in love who are One God alone,Turn and return from breath to breath to seekThe sounding of Your name week upon week.Though I might lie and just as soon repent

    Let me return to where the roses went,Bathe in the pristine Truth that for Your sakeThe scintillating pools of Kauthar make.Then being son of man I shall at lastMake all but You within me an outcast,And rise from air to earth to eat the nutInstead of grape and plum in forties cut.

    Numbers 241 When Balaam saw that it pleased YHWHTo bless Israel, he did not doAs at the other times, to seekTo use magic upon the peak,But turned toward the wilderness.2 And Balaam raised his eyes to bless,To see Israel encamped by tribe,Spirit of Alohim imbibe.3 Then he took up his oracleAnd said "The utterance in full

    Of Balaam the son of Beor,The utterance of the man forWhom eyes are opened, 4 utteranceOf him who hears the words in tranceOf El, who sees the vision ofThe Almighty, who falls in love,With eyes wide open: 5 'How lovelyAre your tents, O Jacob!And freeYour dwellings, O Israel! 6 Ali

    Shall be like valleys that spread out,Like gardens by the riverside,Like aloes planted without doubtBy YHWH, like cedars on the tideOf waters. 7 He shall pour out fromHis buckets waters, his seed comeLike many waters, his king shallBe higher than Agag's cabal,Exalted, his kingdom stands fast.8 From Egypt El brings him to last,He has strength like a wild ox, he

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    Shall consume nations, enemy,He'll break their bones and pierce with arrow.9 He bows down willing at the harrow,He lies down as a lion, and

    As a lion, who'll make him stand?Blessed is the one who blesses you,And cursed is he who curses you.'"

    When Balaam turned his sight from IsraelTo gaze out on the desert without well,You spoke through him in prophecy to tellThe triumphs and the virtues of Ali.From Pisgah I too look out on the seaOf troubled nations gathered toward the floodOf the Euphrates, see the curse and blood,And yet beyond the dryness of men's fate,I see the luscious waters of the gateOf Kauthar and the hand that raises cupFilled to the brim, and still he holds it up.The lion crouches, and You bid me blessHis name, and so I raise in righteousnessOnce more confession of his royal state.

    Deuteronomy 6

    4 "Hear, Prince of God! YHWH's Alohim,Our Judge exalted and supreme,YHWH is One, not three in a dream.5 And you'll love YHWH your AlohimWith all your heart and all your soulAnd all your mightfor self control.

    Beloved, I thank you for undeserved nameOf Israel in Prince of God's fair claim.I thank you that You are the Judge supremeAnd called Allah, Aloah, Alohim.But greater gift has never entered mindThan the mere oneness of Your being's kind.Though names are full and fancy and find placeTo make a stumbling block for every raceAs well as road to find Your divine face,You are one, one alone beyond all time.You are one in both rhythm and the rhyme.

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    And being one instead of two or threeLove is perfected impartiality.How many angels still dance on the dime!

    Deuteronomy 321 "Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak,And hear, O earth, my mouth's words meek.2 Let my teaching drop as the rain,My speech distil as dewfor gain,As raindrops on the tender herb,As showers on the grassy curb.3 For I shall cantillate the nameOf YHWH and publish and proclaimThe greatness of our Alohim.4 He is the rock, and His works seemPerfection, for His ways all justShow Him a God of truth who mustBe without guile, righteous is HeAnd upright through eternity.

    I cry out Huu to end this proclamation.Yes, just and right is Huu in every nation.So my Beloved, You are both just and right,

    A rock of refuge in the heathen's sight,Truth is Your name and everything You doIs justice, so I cry out once more Huu.If I proclaim Your name as I reciteThe Hebrew words wrote here in dark and light,It is because the Prophet Moses criedTo end his sentence Huu and then he died.The skies and earth lend ear to hear the sound,The dew and tender rain fall to the ground

    And make prostration on the slender grass.I too bow down to You before I pass.

    26 I would have said "I'll dash in piecesUntil the memory of them ceasesFrom among men," 27 Had I not fearedThe wrath when enemy appeared,Unless their adversaries beMisunderstanding, lest declare"Our hand is high, we cannot seeThat it's YHWH that's made all this bare."'

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    28 "For they're a nation void of sense,In understanding they are dense.29 Oh, that they were wise, and thattheyUnderstood this, thatthey'd relay

    Their latter end! 30 How could one chaseA thousand, and two put to raceTen thousand in flight, but their RockHad sold them, barrel, stock and lock,And YHWH'd surrendered them in block?31 For their rockis not like our Rock,Even as judge our enemies.32 For their vine's of the vine and treesOf Sodom and fields of Gomorrah,Their grapes are grapes of gall and sorrow,Their clusters bitter. 33 Their grape juiceIs serpents' poison for the useOf cobras' cruel venom's abuse.34 'Is this not laid Me up in store,Sealed up among My treasures'floor?35 Vengeance is Mine, and recompense,Their foot shall slip in due time hence,For the day of calamityIs at hand, and things hastily

    Come on them.' 36 "For YHWH will be judgeOf His people and He will budgeIn compassion on His servants,When He sees that theirpower's hence,And there's no one remaining, bondOr free. 37 He'll say 'Where is the wandOftheir gods, the rock in which theySought refuge? 38 Who ate fat and wheyOf their sacrifices, anddrank

    The wine of their drink offering rank?Let them arise up now and help,Andbe a refuge to your whelp.39 'Now see that I, even I, am He,And there is no God beside Me,I kill, I make alive, set free,I wound and heal, and there is noneTo deliver from My hand won.

    Beloved, do You mean You are God alone?I know You reject images of stone,

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    But do You also cast aside the ThreeThat make up one god in a Trinity?Ah, many are the creeds that say You're wrong,Beloved, God of the Scriptures, and the strong

    And mighty El Shaddai of Abraham!You spoke to Moses as the great I AM,To David as the one from Your own heart.All other gods are ones contrived by artAnd art's philosophies. That stubborn MeYou choose to call Yourself lets none go free.So bind my heart and soul to only One,And let's have trinities and idols done.

    40 I raise My hand to heaven, and say"I live forever, 41 If I weighAndwhet My glittering sword, and MyHand takes hold on judgement, then IWill render vengeance to My foes,And repay those who hate Mynose.42 I'll make My arrows drunk with blood,And My sword shall devour the floodOfflesh, with the blood of the slainAnd the captives, heads of the main

    Leaders of the enemyvain."'43 "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His folk,For He'll avenge the bloodHe spokeOf His servants, and vengeance makeOn His enemies, He'll provideAtonement for His land and wideAtonement on His people's side."

    Are You, Beloved, a God of mercy and

    A God of justice? Let me understand.This world is full of universal loveExpressed in song and dance and millions ofLand mines in loving silence waiting whereThe soft caress of some child's hand in airWill set off universal love again.Why do I always meet such love in pain?Instead of universal love I waitFor mercy in Your coming judgement's gate.The three great heresies join to agreeThat You must come to judge and that quickly.

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    Come end this universal love with fireIs Dervish Ali Haydar's firm desire.

    1 Samuel 9

    18 Saul drew near Samuel in the gate,And said Please tell me, dont be late,Where is the seers house and gate?19 And Samuel answered Saul and saidI am the seer. Go up ledBefore me to the high place, forYoull eat with me todayand more,Tomorrow then Ill let you goAnd all thats in your heart Ill show.20 But as for your donkeys that wereLost three days since, do not incurAnxiety for them, be sureThey have been found. But from whom doesIsrael expect Muhammads laws?Is itnot from you and from allYour fathers house by divine call?

    The longing heart awaited year on year,And centuries passed by in hope and fear,

    While faithful ones desired and kept aliveThe hope that he would come and he would striveIn the right path. And so all IsraelLooked for the one on whom the balance fell.Did Saul believe that he would live to beMuhammad, the Desired, and did he seeBeyond the hopes and dreams that he would failTo lead the people from behind the veilAnd through the Scriptures into perfect ways?

    Or did the Seer see beyond the daysAnd centuries to come, Beloved, to whenA voice inspired would cantillate again?

    2 Chronicles 2116 YHWH stirred up against JehoramThe spirit of Philistines ramAnd the Arabians nearbyThe Ethiopians ally.17 And they came up into JudahAnd invaded it as by law,

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    And carried away all the thingsFound in the kings house and its wings,And also his sons and his wives,So that there was not a son contrives

    To be left to him except forJehoahaz, youngest sons store.18 After all this YHWH struck him inHis intestines, despite his sin,With an incurable disease.19 It came to pass then as time flees,After two years his guts came out,Thats what his sickness was about,So he died in severest pain.The people did not mourn in vainFor him by burning as they hadFor his fathers who were not bad.20 He was thirty-two years old whenHe became king, ruled over menEight years in allover the cityJerusalem.It was a pityHe did not turn out to becomeMuhammad, the Desired in sum.Still they interred him in the city

    Of David but not in the gravesReserved for kings with royal staves.

    Down to Jehoram every king that reignedStepped on the throne amidst applause unfeigned,As all awaited what might come to lightTo show that he was One Desired to fightOppression and idolatry and soInitiate completed faith. But no,

    He too passed on to rest within the tomb,Unmourned perhaps, and undesired till doom.So Davids line continued on in hope,A glimmer light for some while others gropeIn heathen blindness till the time of gloryWhen Gabriel comes to bring the final story.Beloved, how long we waited for one sent!How quickly we turned back soon as he went!

    2 Chronicles 3226 Then Hezekiah humbled him

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    Self for the pride of his heart dim,He and inhabitants that wereIn oldJerusalem to stirNo wrath of YHWH upon them all

    In days of Hezekiahs fall.27 And Hezekiah was most greatIn riches and honour ofstate,And made himself his treasuriesFor silver, gold, precious stones, seasOf spices, shields, for every kindOf Muhammads instruments, mind,28 Storehouses for the harvest grain,Grape juice, and oil, stalls to maintainAll kinds of livestock, folds for sheepAnd places for the goats to sleep.

    Who knows what instruments of MuhammadKing Hezekiah had. But hope had ledThe people to speak of desired things,Things costly and the precious things of kings,As instruments desired. The long time wishThat One Desired should come made knife and dishAnd jewel and sword shine with anticipation.

    The name itself enhanced hand tool and nation.A household word before his true appearingWas lost from Scripture through his peoples fearing.Desired vessel, vessel made of clay,Lies broken now, betrayed upon the dayHe died. Beloved, keep in my heart whats true,And let me love and know as well as do.

    2 Chronicles 36

    9 Jehoiachin was eight years oldWhen he was king, and reigned all toldThree months and ten days in the cityJerusalem and without pityHe did evil in sight of YHWH.10 And at the turn of the year whoSummoned there and took him toBabylon but the king and czarReigning there, Nebuchadnezzar,And took Muhammads instrumentsOut from the house of YHWHs contents,

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    And made his brother ZedekiahKing over Judah and all nigh herAroundJerusalem and higher.

    Prophetic act! The king of BabylonTakes from the house of God things fawned upon,The golden vessels of Muhammad thereThat had been kept since Solomon with care.From under steady temple lights by night,The foreign king took all as if by right.Prophetic act! How many now lay claimTo Ahmeds store, and yet despite the sameAre guided by inventions and new waysInstead of Ahmeds prayerful nights and days.For vessels taken from their resting placeTo grace the courts of Babylon a spaceNo longer guide the faithful in their walkBut only justify vile act and talk.

    Psalm 10613 They soon forgot His works, did notwait for His counsel loving taught,14 But in the wilderness greatly

    Lusted to eat their meat freely,And in the desert tested him,Alohim with plaints sour and grim.15 He gave them their request, but sentLeanness into their soul and spent.16 They envied Moses in the camp,AndAaron saint of YHWH and lamp,17 The earth opened and swallowed thereDathan, and covered, soil and air,

    Faction of Abiram with care.18 In their midst there was kindled fireThe flames consumed wicked desire.19 They made a calf in Horeb, andWorshipped the moulded image grand.20 Thus they changed their glory intoThe oxs image that eats dewUpon the grass. 21 And they forgotAlohim their Saviour, who taughtGreat things in Egypt, 22 Wondrous worksIn the land of Ham, awesome dirks

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    By the Red Sea. 23 Therefore He saidThat He would destroy them instead,Had not Moses His chosen oneStood before Him in the sun

    To bear thebreach, to turn awayHis wrath, lest He destroythat day.24 So they despised Muhammads land,And they believed not his command.25 They sat complaining in their tents,Heard not YHWHs voice for arguments.

    The golden calf was looking back to thatMonolatry of Egypt where theyd satAt feet of priest and king. The wildernessWas too bucolic for such well-read slaves.A scientific, golden worship ravesIn town and ear with civilized finesse.So even then, before the prophets birth,They questioned him because of land and worth.Belovd, they did not believe his word,Although their hot souls burning in them stirredTo hear the Unity, its recitation.A dearer thing it was to be a nation.

    Destroy me too, Beloved, wherein I amBesides You, Im a sacrificial lamb.

    Song of Solomon 510 My loved is fair and ruddy, chiefAmong ten thousand, 11 and like leafOffinest golds his head, his locksAre wavy, raven black. 12 His eyesAre like doves by the river docks

    Of waters, washed with milkin wise,Andfitly set. 13 His cheeks are likeA bed of spices, banks that strikeThe airwith scented herbs. His lipsAre lilies, dripping liquid myrrh.14 His hands are rods of gold set withBeryl. His bodys lovelier,Carved ivory all inlaid withSapphires. 15 His legs are pillars, hipsOf marble set on bases ofFine gold. His countenance of love

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    Is like the Lebanon, the fineCedars. 16 His mouth is sweet like wine,Yes, hes Mahammadim [Muhammad] indeed.And this is my beloved decreed,

    This is my friend and diadem,O daughters of Jerusalem!

    Oh my Beloved! Give me a pen both whiteAnd ruddy in the flaming, flaming light,Above ten thousand, head of finest gold,And wavy locks like jet, the rarest sold,With eyes like doves and cheeks like bed of spices,And golden beryl hands above all prices,And lily lips, beneath, carved ivoryInlaid with sapphires, marble pillarySet in their bases of the purest gold,And excellent like cedars known of old,With mouth most sweet reciting angel songs,Come down, Desired, to right all earthly wrongs.Beloved, Your breath alone makes such a man,Beloved and friend, as only Your word can.

    Sirach 1

    12 The fear of YHWH delights the heart,And gives gladness and joy and partIn life eternal. 13 With him whoFears YHWH it will go well to end,At death he will be blessed unkenned.14 To fear YHWH is wisdoms beginning,She is createdfor their winningWith the faithful in the womb. 15 SheMade among men eternally

    Herfoundation, and among theirDescendants shell be trustedfair.16 To fear YHWH is wisdoms full measure,She satisfies men with her treasureOf fruits, 17 she fills their whole house withThings of Muhammad, further withHer produce she fills their storehouses.18 The fear of YHWH indeed arousesThe crown of wisdom, making peace [Islam]And perfect health grow and increase.

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    What things of Muhammad, Beloved, have YouBestowed upon the human pack and crew?Wisdoms full measure, and the fear of YHWH,Treasures of fruits, dates chewed and lovingly

    Placed on the infants tongue, and droughts of teaMade from the rare herbs of theophany?Well-being in perfection, peace to allWho find the crown of wisdom, know its call,These are the things of Muhammad producedIn delights to the heart, in grapes well juiced,Divided into forty and set outIn silver goblets from a golden spout.Meet me, Beloved, at Muhammads guest houseTo sip the nectar and make drunk the nous.

    Isaiah 455 I am YHWH, and there is no other,There is no god besides Me, brother.I will gird you and set you free,Despite youre having not known me.6 That they may know Me from the risingOf the sun, from the west surprising,That there is none beside me. I

    AmYHWH, and theres none else to try.7 I form the light, create the dark,I make peace [Islam], make the evil park,I YHWH do all this on the sly.

    Are You the Lord, and is there none but You,No other god to whom the loved cries Huu?What proofs You give, Beloved, for Deity,That though I knew You not You come to Me

    To wash and change the diaper that I wearUnknown to me, an infant needing care!I thought I was an independent scholar,Not in a mothers care and prone to call her.You gird me though I do not see Your handAnd do not have the strength to understand.I have not known though I keep finding YouEach place I turn, in all the things You do.Beloved, who change the diapers of my flesh,Let soul with soul and flesh with flesh enmesh.*

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    20 Assemble yourselves and come near,Draw together, you without fearWho have escaped from the nations.They have no knowledge in their buns,

    Who carry the wood of their carvedImage, and pray to a god starvedThatcannot save. 21 Tell and bring outYour argument, yes, without doubtLet them take counsel in their numbers.Who has declared this without slumbersFrom ancient time? Who has told itFrom that time?Have not I, YHWHfit?And theres no other AlohimBesides Me, A just AlohimAnd Saviour, none beside Me sit.

    Is there no just God and a Saviour butThis One, this You beloved, who tell me whatIs counsel from most ancient time? Have theySearched high and low to find a god at bayAnd failed to find any but You? PerhapsThese modern days have filled our ample lapsWith technicalities of deep research

    And with a microscope well find the perchWhere sits another god. Or if Youd rather,Ill take a telescope, worked to a lather,And find behind some distant star Your mateIn hiding, call her so she wont be late.Till then my soul is satisfied to findHer eye for other gods continues blind.

    Jeremiah 3

    12 Go and proclaim these words towardThe north, says YHWH the Lord,Return, backsliding Israel,It was not that My anger fellOn you for your destruction, IAm merciful, says YHWH, And IWill not remain angry for aye.13 Only admit your sinfulness,That in your doing you transgressAgainst YHWH your God, And have scatteredYour charms to strange idols and battered

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    Beneath each green tree, and have notObeyed MY voice as youve been taught,Says YHWH. 14 Return, backsliding folk,Says YHWH, for Im married to you.

    I will take you and not revoke,One from a city and two fromA family, and you shall comeInto the fortress. 15 And Ill giveYou shepherds by My own hearts sieve,Wholl feed you with knowledge and trueUnderstanding of what to do.16 Then it shall come to pass, when youAre multiplied, increased in landIn those days and by My command,Says YHWH, that they will say no more,Ark of the covenant of YHWH.It shall not come to theirmind, norShall they remember it, nor doTheir visits to it anymore.17 At that time Jerusalem shallBe called the Throne of YHWH, and allThe nations shall be gathered toJerusalem, and name of YHWH.

    No more shall they follow dictatesOf their evil hearts. 18 In those statesAnddays the house of Judah shallWalk with the house of Israel,And they shall come together outOf the land of the north with shoutTo the land that Ive given as anInheritance to partisan.19 But I said How can I put you

    Among the children and their dueAnd give to you the land ofMuhammad, heritage of love,Beauty of the hosts of nations?And I said You shall in elationsCall Me, My Father, And not turnAway from Me, nor My love spurn.

    When You, Beloved, brought back from their exileIsraelite folk who had been gone a while,Brought them from Babylon and from the plains

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    Of west and north once more to count their gains,You sorrowed to think they might touch the land,Muhammads heritage by Your command.The fortress of Jerusalem You find

    Is at the west end far from temple lined.Let that be for Judahs trifled descendants.Let them take comfort in Davids new pendants.But let Your Throne, Beloved, stand bright and bareFor all nations beneath Muhammads care.And let the bride look from her peaceful towerToward the golden spires at the prayer hour.

    Jeremiah 2530 Now prophesy against them allThese things, and bring to their recall,YHWH will roar from on high, And sendHis voice from His holy hills end,He will roar mightily againstHis fold, Hell give a shout incensed,As those who tread the grapes, againstAll the inhabitants of the earth dispensed.31 A noise will come to the earths ends,For YHWH takes issue and contends

    With the nations, Hell plead His caseWith all flesh. Hell give the raceOf the wicked to sword, says YHWH.32 So says YHWH of hosts: It is true,Disaster shall go forth from nationTo nation, and a conflagrationOf wind raised from the earths far ends.33 And at that day the slain of YHWHShall be from one end of earth to

    The otherend of the earth, theyshall not be mourned, gathered, or buried,But be dung on the ground uncarried.34 Wail, shepherds, cry! And roll about,You leaders of the flockdevout!For the days of your slaughter andYour dispersions are quite at hand,You shall fall like an instrumentOf Muhammad by accident.

    The clay vessels that bring life-giving drink

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    Were once called vessels of Muhammad. ThinkHow deep was the desire that he should comeThat daily artifacts take up the drum.Clay vessels hold the living waters to

    The thirsty lip, and bring the thing thats true.And like clay vessels can be dropped and broken,The scattered shards and useless are a tokenOf what Muhammad is and was to be:A burning light and warning to the freeThat bore his message straight and truthfully,But then was cast aside without remorseThe meaning and intent of his discourse.If but to one, let his words live for me.

    Hosea 139 O Israel, you are destroyed,But your help is from Me deployed.10 Ill be your King, where is the oneTo save you in your cities done?And your judges to whom you said,Give me a king and prince well-bred?11 I gave you a king in My ire,Tookhim away in My wraths fire.

    12 Iniquity of Ephraims bound,His sins stored up. 13 The sorrows foundOf woman in childbirth shall comeUpon him, unwise son and glum,For he should not remain long whereChildren are born to great and fair.14 Ill ransom them from the graves power,I will redeem them from deaths hour.O Death, I will be for your plagues!

    O Grave, I will be your destruction!Pity is hidden in the dregsAndfrom My eyes is its obstruction.15 Though he is fruitful among brothers,An east wind shall come, wind that smothers,The spirit of YHWH shall come fromThe wilderness, then his spring swumShall become dry, and his fountainShall be dried up, and He againShall plunder the treasure of eachInstrument of Muhammads reach.

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    16 Samarias held guilty, forShe has rebelled against her storeInAlohim. So they shall fallBy the sword, and their infants all

    Shall be dashed in pieces, and theirWomen with child ripped open bare.

    After the thirsty dryness of the airThat swept the folk of Israel from their shareAnd saw them flee to Yemen and the careOf Ethiopia beside the sea,The full treasure appeared for all to see,The Desired one, Muhammad by Your hand,Beloved, who promised treasures in the sand.Beyond the guilt, the flight, the warring songHis bright words beam across the desert strongAnd bring hope to the once rebellious throngWho find the precious message of peace whereThe sword is dropped, the rose has sprung up there.Your spirit, My Beloved, come from the eastTo open the dry fountains for the least.

    Nahum 2

    1 He who scatters comes up beforeYour face, so man the fort! Whats moreKeep watch upon the road! Make strongThe flanks! And fortifyalongYourforces mightily. 2 For YHWHWill restore Jacobs excellence,Like Israels finenessHe shall do,For those who empty have cast henceAnd ruined the branches of their vine.

    3 The shields of his mighty menfineAre made red, and the valiant menAre dressedin scarlet, chariots thenWith flaming torches in the dayOf his preparing, and betraySpears brandished, 4 And the chariots rageIn the streets, jostle and engageIn the broad roads, they seem like flames,They run like lightning in their games.5 He minds his nobles, in their walkThey stumble, make haste to her stalk

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    And walls, so the defence prepares.6 The gates of the rivers and stairsAre opened, the palace dissolved.7 It is decreed and is resolved:

    Captive she shall be led away,She shall be brought up in that day,And her maidservants shall lead herAs with the voice of doves aver,Beating their breasts. 8 Though NinevehOf old was like a pool to stayOf water, now they flee away.Halt! Halt! they cry, but none turns back.9 Take spoil of silver bric-a-brac!Take spoil of gold! There is no endOf treasure or wealth to expend,Muhammads instruments in all.10 Shes empty, desolate, and waste!The heart melts, knees shake at the call,Much pains on every side, and allTheir faces are colour of paste.

    Through generations Israels folk remainedDesirous of the coming one, sustained

    That hope through enemy attack, defeat,But when wealth and pride overwhelmed conceit,The prophet lays their fond gropes in the dust.The treasure has become a spoil that mustBe given to another. Yet the hopeOnce wrenched away by grasping interlopeBecomes the prey of all the populaceOf earth dressed in woollen or silken lace.The fortress gates are broken down and free,

    The kings riches are scattered on the lee,And You, Beloved, proclaimed to son and allOne and alone, and by Muhammads call.

    Haggai 21 In month the seventh, twenty-firstDay of the month, then YHWHs word burstUpon Haggai the prophet, saying:2 Speak to Zerubbabel waylayingThe son of Shealtiel, of JudahThe governor, and to Joshua

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    Son of Jehozadak, high priest,And to the folks remnant increased,Saying, 3 Whos left ofman or beastAmong you who saw temple in

    Its former glorysapphirine?And how then do you see it now?Compared with that, you must avowThat this is nothing in your sight.4 Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,Says YHWH, and increase in your might,Joshua, son of Jehozadak,The high priest, and be strong in padock,All you folk in the land who dwell,Says YHWH, and work, for Im with you,Says YHWH of hosts. 5 According toThe word that I agreed with youWhen you came out of Egypts land,So My spirit remains with you,Do not fear then! 6 For so says YHWHOf hosts, Once more, a little stand,I shall shake heaven and earth, the seaAnd the dry land, 7 and I will shakeAll nations, and Muhammad be

    Of all nations comefor My sake,And I will fill this temple, see,With glory, says YHWH of hosts wake.8 The silvers Mine, the gold is Mine,Says YHWH of hosts. 9 The gloryfineOf this latter temple shall beGreater than the former, saysHe,YHWH of hosts. And in this place IWill give Islam, says YHWH of sky.

    The glory that David and SolomonPut on the temple mount in benisonWas thrown down by the king of Babylon.Rebuilt a shadow of the former grace,The people wept to see its loss of face,Until the prophet came to say the placeWould be filled with a greater glory whenThe hoped for should appear among mere men.Jesus walked on the sacred stones set thereAnd looked forward to see caught up in air

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    Muhammad and his horse before Your throne.I grasp the peace of Islam teeth and bone,And thank You for the message clear and fair,And bow to You, Beloved, to You alone.

    Zechariah 78 The word of YHWH to Zechariah said,9 So says YHWH of hosts: ExecuteTrue justice, show mercyto bootAnd compassion, everyone ledTo his brother. 10 Do not oppressThe widow or the fatherless,The alien or yet the poor.Let none of you plan, evil-doer,Wickeness in his heart at allAgainst his brother to make fall.11 But they refused to heed, and shruggedTheir shoulders, and stopped their ears and pluggedSo that they could not hear. 12 Yes, they madeTheir hearts like flint, refused, gainsaidThe law and the words YHWH of hostsHad sent by His spirit and boastsThrough the former prophets. So great

    Wrath came from YHWH of hosts on state.13 Therefore it happened, just as HeProclaimed and theyd not hearfreely,So they called and I would not listen,Says YHWH of hosts. 14 But I shall christenThem scattered with a whirlwind inAll the nations where theyd not been.So the land became desolateAfter them, so that no one passed gate

    Or returned, for they made the landOf Muhammad desolate land.

    The promise You made to Abram one nightThat his descendant would have the lands rightWas truly promise of the message brightTo live the good life in Your loving sight.Rebellion against Your word sealed the fateOf those who would not follow to Your gate,But set their hearts like flint and so the landWas desolation like flint in their hand.

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    Repentance for the violence and woeIs all it takes to make the bare field grow.The promise of Abram is resurrectedIn the prophet You finally selected.

    Let me return to that one promised landWhich is obedience beneath Your hand.

    Revelation 146 Then I saw another angelFly in the midst of heaven a spell,Having everlasting gospelTo preach to those who live on earth,To every nation, tribe of worth,And tongue, and people without dearth.7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear GodAnd give Him gloryon the sod,For the hour of His judgments come,And in prostration worship HimWho made heaven and earth not dim,Sea, springs of water, all in sum.

    The only place, Belovd, in Your bookOf revelation, hard as I may look,

    Tells what the content of the Gospel is.A hundred times the word appears but fizzIs all that floats upon the Gospel glass.The Gospel is just three commands that passOn two explanatory words. Fear GodAlone and not the neighbours wife, and trodThe way in gratitude to Him, so whenThe judgement comes all things shall be well then.The third command is that we pray to You

    In earth prostration since the thing is trueThat You have made all things, alone Creator,And not space, time, nor any other satyr.*