First came a strong wind   Rippin' off rooftops like bottlecaps    And bending lamp posts down to the ground   Then came a thunder   Shattering my window    But you were not that strong wind    Or that mighty sound    That left the bar in shambles   The rabbit hutch in ruins   The split-rail fence splintered    And the curtains torn   All the cows out from the pastures   Trampling on the pumpkins    And the horses from their stables    Ambling in the corn      Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam      I've flown unnoticed just behind you like an insect    And I've watched you like a falcon    From a distance as you passed   You swoop down to be nearer    To the traces of your footsteps   To pick the fallen grain from the dirt    Beneath the crooked grass   And I'm going to take that grain   I'm going to crush it all together    Into the flour of a bread    As small and simple and sincere    As when the dryness and the rain    Finally drink from one another   The gentle cup of mutual surrendered tears      Come on!      A fish swims through the sea    While the sea is, in a certain sense   Contained within the fish!    Oh, what am I to think    Of what the writing    Of a thousand lifetimes could not explain    If all the forest trees were pens    And all the oceans, ink?      Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam      Nastagh-firuka ya Hakam   Ya Dhal-Jalali wal-Ikram   Isa ruhu-lah 'alalihis-salat was-salam   Ya Halim, ya Qahhar   Ya Muntaqim, ya Ghaffar!   La llaha ilallahu, Allahu Akbar!