Bismillah-Hir-Rahmaan-Nir-Raheem

 MARTYRS OF ISLAM

By ABDUL WAHID OSMAN BELAL

(This poem was composed after Monday August 29,1966

when Sayyed Qutb Shaheed was martyred by Col.Nasser's Masonic regime.)

They submit to His (Allah's) will and seek,

The pleasure of their Lord, Most High!

Whose will, they must always fulfill,

Without any murmur or sigh!

Wielding the rod of Moses,

Every Pharaoh's might and main defy!

The false gods tremble before them,

Like in Mahmud (of Ghazna)'s presence, who did spurn and terrify!

When they are tortured and watched,

They scorn the world and bid Good-ye!

With smiles on their bright faces,

When willingly led to gallows high!

They rush to greet the angel of death

Who takes the soul, as they close the eye!

All this they suffer for their Beloved

Prophet (Muhammad*) 's sake; thereby Islam dignify!

Speak not of them, that they are dead,

They live and can never die! (Holy Quran 3:169)

* (Allah and His angels send their blessings, peace and salutations on him!)