Earthquakes are Deadly

Earthquakes are deadly because they are so sudden and unpredictable
One minute you are alive with laughter, next minute you are under the rubble

It all starts on  a quiet and a normal day or in a silent night
with a rumble of a thousand drums from a distant site

Slowly then the pitch increases and the ground begins to shake
It sounds like two trains crashing; you got yourself an earthquake

People screaming, animals howling, buildings falling, there is no terra
firma
There is nothing to hold on to in such chaos except Allah, Maola Ali & Ma
Fatima

People died suddenly, their aspirations and dreams shattered
Dreams for themselves and their children, with their bodies all scattered

Northridge quake(1) in L. A. .was 6.9 on the Richter scale
The Bhuj quake(2) was 7.9, 10 times bigger on this logarithmic scale

Earthquakes are when tectonic plates collide and slide over each other
Other disasters are predictable but earthquakes are different altogether

It is heart breaking to see such destruction and great loss of life
30,000 dead is not a small number;  in our hearts this pokes a knife

300 momeneen lost their lives due to this cruel earthquake
They all went to jannat directly as our Maola prayed for their sake

Monetary help can feed the survivors and protect the newly homeless
This is our duty to assist our brothers when they are in need and helpless

In the same Gujarat area in the 1200s Syedna  Abdeali Saifuddin
Hosted 1200 momeneen for a year when they were hit by a famine

All Dai's are same, no one is any less than any other
All momeneen are their children, they suffer when we suffer

Our Maola has organized the fund raising, donations and the whole relief
effort
Such a loving and concerned father, may he live long & healthy ta qiyamat.

(1) on 17 Jan. 1994 at 4:31 AM        (2)  on 26Jan. 2001 at
8:45 AM

Abd-e-Syedna, TUS- Shk. Husain Jamali, Anjuman-e-Burhanee, Los Angeles, CA