Peace, one and all…
The Way of The Guest
My beloved has said:
‘Be in this world as though you were
a traveller or a wayfarer’,
so let me learn the way of the guest.
Let me bow low
before every gift of love,
and rise in honour of my Host
before each laden table.
Let me offer greetings of peace
to all who sojourn with me,
and pass over every ungracious deed
with an eye ready to forgive.
This world is Yours, Beloved.
I am merely a traveller
and it is not a guest’s right
to impugn their Host’s generosity.
(Abdur Rahman, 14th March 2008)
