Showing posts with label tongue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tongue. Show all posts

Sunday, October 14, 2012

The tale of Two Tongues


In the name of Allah, The Most Merciful, the Especially Merciful
 

Two people of similar backgrounds and ages sit down together for a meal

They have lived through much of the same but how they are different we will take a moment to reveal

Considerate, kind, attentive and concerned is clear in the expression of the one on the right

Carefree, expressive, bubbly as the one on the left brings much information to light

Facts and a dispensing of knowledge is of one who protects his tongue and his honour

A tongue so loose, letting out information, without checking its copyright, with much vigour

The attentive man on the right is deemed a freak for, although informed, he holds his mouth shut

While the tongue-wagging person on the left is the one where words flow like a glut

Much privacy for himself and those around him is for the one who guards his tongue

Aware we must be for dangerous is the one around whose neck one’s reputation is hung

The responsible person is the one who seeks to speak only with understanding

While understanding is undermined but the one who always has the urge of speaking

Strong-willed are both but the one, who remains silent, in no way belittles

While the need of the other to speak and be dramatic means that every time a tale he tittles

We are but one of the two people who may yet harm others but what we say

As without authority we, as is our general practice, present information on a tray

We pronounce judgement on the lives of others as in every story we contrive a change

The licence we have given ourselves makes every other story always seem strange

Indeed the safety on man lies in the guarding of the tongue

While it is quite the opposite when every bit of information is far flung

I pray that I am more like the man on the right who will not stand by listening to the one who gossips

The one on the left is the one that will present to you, before asking, about someone many tips

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Where the truth resides


In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Especially Merciful

What is there to say when all words are spoken
Opinions are voiced such that bonds are broken
Perhaps we have reached a time when few are wise
Sadly this may indeed be why people do not realise

That in relating issues we need to be more circumspect
For with that we do the dignity of others protect
But for sure this is exactly what some are against
When it is the blood of a person that is sensed


Evil indeed are people with hearts impure
Rejoicing at the pain a brother may endure
The tongue is actively broadcasting the message
Of truthful content there is merely a vestige


In silence there may yet be more benefit
Than the talk emanating from a poisonous pit
How much better if we do make the heart pure
Then with that our words may indeed be a cure


So moisten rather your tongue with remembrance of your Lord
Evil indeed is the one whose tongue puts others to the sword

Let us all speak the truth and let all animosity cease

Embrace one another with a sincere greeting of peace