Only Allah Knows Best Who She is
I discarded all but one story of romance that has ever been written
In Words that cannot be prescribed even with the ink as vast as the ocean
In the Lauh Mahfuz where everything in existence has been written
I believe with all my faith that I have loved you since the start of creation
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Bear witness that I marry you not because I love you
Allah has decreed that I love you because I marry you
Beyond any common sense of those who do not believe
Allah promises good men for good women for those who believe
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By all in this world, I am not the best of all men
By all in the heavens, you cannot be the best of all women
But if Allah guides a path for us to be together
Bear witness that we are the best for each other
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Allah promises 72 huris in jannah for men
All of them for men who believe in Allah and prostrate
But in jannah another figure will catch the eyes of men
Bear witness, it’s mere beauty takes forty years to contemplate
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Allah knows best that this beauty is none other than you
It was Him who, in the mortal world, brought us together
Allah has decreed for such a story to eternally continue
In patience and shalat we will live this story together
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(2 October 2013)