Ramadhan : Rafiya Sayeed

Ramadhan

Rafiya Sayeed

The moon I sight

is a cresent at full height,

it's bright cheeks suffuse the sky 

with the lights of the jannah.

The satanic satan is baited

the golden month is inaugurated,

a month of salvation and sobriety 

four weeks- for purification and cure.

The all-round training of thirty days

with self repairing multiple phases;

to restore, to recharge, to refine Imaan

to detox, to deinfect, to deinfest body.

(Rafiya Sayeed is a writer and educator from Kashmir. She writes poetry, essays and review works. She is inspired by nature and simple life experiences to write her verses. Her work has been featured in various anthologies, newspapers and online literary magazines.)