The Dreadful Doom to come and other Poems

INTRODUCTION

Shri Syed Ameeruddin is already known to read­ers of Indo - Anglian poetry through his first collec­tion of poems. This is a second collection — 1 The Dreadful Doom to Come...* It contains six poems which are fairly long and which would probably have been called ' Odes' by poets of another generation.

Shri Syed Ameeruddin has a sensitive, poetic heart. He has tasted the waters of disenchantment. The life that he sees around him, with all its faith and evil, makes him resentful. The masculinity of modern woman he strongly disapproves even at the risk of being called a conservative. Technology, With all its attendant ugliness and permissiveness, has but multiplied our material desires and turned the vices of yesterday into Virtues of today.

 

Intense brooding of this kind makes Shri Syed Ameeruddin wonder what life is. He says that it is

"A never - ending topsy - turvy song.'* It is a continuous tilting tale, a hypnotising, sweet and sad saga that mesmerises ignorant mankind.

But he has his moments of Visions and philo­sophic perception. He holds that with a divine Jolt, life's earthly Journey enters the supreme stage of Reality. Similarly, every object of beauty finally leads us to the unperceived, supreme Reality, He has also the faith that the great prophets and avatars come down to save erring mankind from doom and destruction If we do not improve our ways,

"In order to clear the debris And to establish peace and dharma, A new divine dignitary Is sure to Come."

The sensitivity of Shri Syed Ameeruddin is geared to a real and metaphysical quest and he has emerged from it with the repose, if not the joy, of faith. The expression of this quest, anguish and repose moves us and touches our hearts.

A sensitive poet, Shri Syed Ameeruddin is experimenting with the diction which will com­municate his Vision. He Comes out with sharp and Scintillating lines, with a facile and felicitous expression, which is quite impressive. His poetic craftsmanship will surely come into its own in good time.

I wish him every success in his creative endea­vour.

 

VINAYAK KRISHNA GOKAK

 

Brindavan, white field Bangalore,

 

POEM

The Dreadful Doom to Com

Dull minds and dull bodies

With hollow hearts and muddy brains

Sleepy eyes and benumbed limbs

Spiritless souls and languid movements.

 

Hugged in passion

Embraced in emotion

Asleep in intoxication

Folded in filth and fantasy

Enveloped in sex and sensousness

.

This is the state of life

Of modern Man...

Sans Mercy, sans Love,

Sans faith, sans Meaning .....

 

Curruption and Pollution,

Filth and Dirt

Mess and Mire

Buzz and Bewilderment

Fuss and fantastic

Crux and chaos

Thus a great delirium.

 

Man's so called knowledge

Is his supreme ignorance,

It is magnificient mortification

And a mesmerising Maya.

In this state of ignorance

Amidst this mesmerising Maya

With the help of his colourful thinking

Man is making a dazzling Dome of Gold.

 

Where sense and self

Are heaped well.

Where ghostly shapes

And superficialities dwell

 

In his vain achievements

Of science and Technology,

In his futile persuasions

Of progress and prosperity,

Man has harmed humanity

To a very dreadful destiny.

 

This dull and drowsy Man of to-day

Has really removed the Humanness from Humanity

And transformed Man again to a Beast

To his original position of passion and Barbarism.

 

Man of to-day is everything, minus being.

He has all grandeur and glory, minus grace.

His heart replete with feeling, minus love.

His mind filled with fantastic thoughts, minus

                                                               peace.

 

Man of today has ignored

All that is eternal

All that is divine.

He has shattered

The mansion of virtue

Of the mystic path

Between Creation and the Creator.

 

That divine path

Which has its origin

From the very origin

Of Man and world...Adam.

 

From time immemorial

Prophets and Mystics

Seers and Sages

With a struggle unimaginable

With a power renarkable

With a mission mysterious

With a zeal indefatigable

With a decision irrevocable

 

With their serene personalities.

And with flames of restlessness

Thty tome amidst this

Turbulent, passion stricken,

Fastidious and impulsive

World of beasts

With human forms.

With traumatic movements

With their chambers of heart and Mind

Benumbed, cl sed and Sealed

 

These divine personalities

Heavenly ambassodors

Moulders of spirit and Soul

Builders of Harmony and peace

Integrators of Beastly and Angelic

Awal filers of slumbering Sinners

 

Reckoners of virtue and vice

Breakers of Maya and Illusion

Redeemers of sense and sensuality

Harbingers of Light and knowledge

Guides of Godly and immortality.

 

These divine messengers

Heavenly communicators

So called prophets

Mystics and Avatars

Sages and Seers

In their timely turns

In various corners

Of this panic-stricken world

In different Yugas and Ages

In different races and languages

Have come with a divine will

And with a Heavenly Sanction

 

To Shatter the shiniilg sins

To clear the filth and dirt

from the human brain

To curb the deeds of flesh and blood

To make an end to self and passion

To eradicate evil and vice

To open the sealed chambers

Of Mind and heart

To let the divine light pass

Into the dark slumbering souls

 

 

To inculcate in the hollow hearts

The sense of realization and the spirit of repentence

To make the spirtless souls

Responsive to the spirit divine.

To inject in the sterile lives....

The qualities of faith, love and kindness

 

To stir and make active

The dull minds and the dull brains

To lead a right path

To live a life Divine

Adhering to the eternal principles

Of Bhakti,.,Karma...and Gnana.

 

Thus they remove ignorance from the erring masses

And emencipate Mankind from the evil of Adharma

They rejuvinate the right spirit,...

And resurrect the decayed ages.

By chiselling and chastening the same images

To establish Sanity...Peace...and Dharma

 

The Very aspiration of divine

In creating these stirring souis

In enveloping this restless eosmos

Is to establish the principles of Eternity

To maintain everlasting peace and tranquillitv

And to sustain the glory of divinity.

 

From age to age

In different races and ranges

Whenever the glory of divine faded...

And the real righteousness jaded...

Whenever the divine will and the divine path is

                                                               shattered

 

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These divine deliverers

Have jumped into the lusty flames of fires

And rushed into ... fallacious fuss...

And dived into that hellish atmosphere

To crush and clash the evil and the insanity

And to drive out the hostile spirit of divinity

In order to revive fertility and the law of Eternity.

 

From Adam onwards

A chain of prophets came

With a vision and a mission

Whenever the divine law became broken

Noah... David.. Jacob...

Ismail...Moses... Abraham...

Buddha.. .Christ ...Krishna...

And last of all...Mohammed...

 

Noah, David, Jacob and Abraham

All encountered the tribulations of their time

And crushed the evil—the satonic shame

And established the divine truth in their time.

 

Moses came

To erroneous Egypt

At a time

When extermities had grown strange

When adharma was dancing at its rage

In the cruel hands of "Firvone"—the rake

Who has diverted the masses From the path of virtue and godliness

 

To the demeaning direction of passion and sensuousness

Moses visualised his divine mission

On the peaks of* Mount Toor'

And received his divine commandments

To dispel the dark and the evil

And to establish the eternal truth

Of divine glory...and the path of Dharma....

 

Buddha came At a time

When illusion was in power

Where show and false practices had become a game

In the hands of a few ingenious men Who led

The ignorant masses into bewilderment.

Buddha was enlightened

Under the 'Bodhi Tree' And received

His divine mission of Nirvana

To eradicate sin and suffering

And to illuminate the confused masses

Towards the path of peace and Dharma.

 

Jesus came

With the same old mission

Of love and path divine

At a time

When hatred and malice prevailed

When lust and lawlessness overflowed

When the fundamental conduct was shattered.

Christ started

His divine mission of sermonising

To inculcate love and Mercy in harsh hearts

 

In clashing

With the evil and sin

He embraced Suffering

And welcomed the crucifixion

To demonstrate the eternal truth

And to establish The path of peace and Dharma.

 

Krishna came

To make the vicious forces tame At a time

When vice was dominating virtue

When chaos and anarchy prevailed.

Krishna thundered

His magnificient message

Amidst

The stormy battle of ' Kurukshetra'

To eradicate the evil

And to crush the crimes.

He emphatically echoed

The supreme principle of Karma

The eternal truth—' Nishkama Karrra '

To wipe out the dreadful Adharma

And to establish The divine path of Dharma.

 

Mohammed came

As the last prophet

With the same mission

To glorify the divine 'Oneness'

And to submit to the wil of Eternity.

Rahamatul-lil-Alamin

Came at a time

When chaos   and confusion

Lust    and licentiousness

Passion and pollution

And an utter disregard

For everything decent and divine

Was the fashion of the day.

In that barbaric atmosphere

Mohammed fought a lone battle

And voiced the principles of Eternity

To root out the deadly Adharma.

And to make the devilish masses

Realize the divine glory

The eternal principles of Truth.

The path of Submission to the divinity

And the Glorious path of peace,

To establish

The eternal principles

Of conduct, co-existence and Dharma

 

Thus it is a circling wheel

A continuous process...

It is the deliberate will of the Divine

That peace and harmony should prevail

In this rambling and restless Universe...

 

Chain of prophets and Seers

Has followed...one after the other...

With the same mission...

And with the same divine vision...

To warn of utter destruction and the doom to come

To glorify the divine austerity

To inculcate the principles of Eternity

And to establish peace and Dharma...

 

Whenever humanity has gone astray from the path Divine

Whenever human civilisations Reached the peak of Extremity...

 

History is crystal clear

With evidence in abundance

How civilisations have come and gone

How Man is his own enemy

How his proud claims of progressiveness

Have at last led him down to his catastrophe...

 

What happened to that stupendous glory of Man

The ancient Nile... and Mabenjadaro...

The great Greeks... and the Roman Grandeur...

To what a disastrous doom they were destined...

Is a monumental reminder...

To the ever soaring

And all bewitching civilisation of To-day...

Of its frightful fate...

And its dreadful doom to come...

 

It is high time

That dull, drowsy and beastly Man of today

Must get from his sensuous slumber

And derive a lesson from his past...

And immediately revive

His entire activities of filth, flesh and fiction

And must go back to these divine messengers

With awe and reverance to their commandments

This is the only solution

To the present confusion

This is the only avenue

To experience again

That long forgotten...

Love...Peace   and faith

 

 

Otherwise

 

A disastrous-destruction is sure to come....

 

........................................

If so

 

In order to clear the debris

 

And to establish peace and Dharma

 

A new divine dignitary...is sure to come....

( Description of Book - The Deadful Doom to Come - Published by Shiri Surabhi Printers - Chennai - Six Poems in 40 Pages)