The Light of Truth — Page 437
QAŞIDAH ON THE DAYS OF ALLAH The flames of transgression flared, and so, after they began to burn fiercely, The smoke rose and created turmoil in every direction. It is a rising fire whose towering flames are like a mountain; These are fires that devastate and plunder all creatures. I regard their statements to be like lances- The injuries they inflict wound and torture the hearts— Or like distant relatives of piercing swords; Or like the arrow that strikes true and kills. They stumbled towards injustice and deviance out of malice, And towards speech that harms and angers. I see the ignoble devil that inclines towards them, And intermixes with the people of their nation. 437