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| AyeshaZ |
| 09/11/03 at 18:28:16 |
[slm] I just finished my set of CD's about Rights and Responsibilities of Marriage and the last CD ( 14).. Shaykh hamza starts off by the tafseer of Surah 'Araaf and ends with this poem... The poem is a lil dense but amazing subhan'Allah, if time permits in next couple of days will share my notes of the interpretation that Sh.HY shared about the poem.. The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Poe LO! 't is a gala night Within the lonesome latter years. An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble low, And hither and thither fly; Mere puppets they, who come and go At bidding of vast formless things That shift the scenery to and fro, Flapping from out their condor wings Invisible Woe. That motley drama—oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased for evermore By a crowd that seize it not, Through a circle that ever returneth in To the self-same spot; And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. But see amid the mimic rout A crawling shape intrude: A blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude! It writhes—it writhes!—with mortal pangs The mimes become its food, And over each quivering form In human gore imbued. Out—out are the lights—out all! And over each quivering form The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero, the Conqueror Worm. |
| 09/11/03 at 18:29:50 |
| AyeshaZ |
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