The Last Mystery

What misery it is to not know
something perfectly known,
the last curtain call did grow
from ignorance into a lie full blown.

They asked for a spread
some juice and some bread.
Next thing you know we're eating
someone's liver and treating

cannibalism like good old usury
something special in the chalice
someone else's misery
a token for our own malice.

This is the parable of eat and drink
take no helpers, don't even blink.
Before you know it they'll want to say
it's always been this carnivorous way.

Not so the book said, just not so
and if you don't believe Allah
then you'll just have to go
ask someone else or guess.

And that ends up in a long term mess.

From the Last Revealed Sura in the Glorious Quran known as The Dinner Table or Table Spread. This Sura was revealed at Ghadr Khum and the prophet was aware of his impending death (sound familiar?). It is said that at the place known as Ghadr Khum, over 100,000 muslims gathered to hear the prophet's final sermon. During that sermon, it is well known that he named his son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Taleb to be the executor of his "estate" i.e. Islam. It is the basis of all sectarianism in Islam with the "Shia" becoming known as those who followed the last order i.e. Last Will and Testament of the prophet Mohamed, SA. Sunnis are those who followed those who violated the Will of Allah. It is and was, a very serious concern. Perhaps some in the world can begin to see exactly why it is a concern in the modern world i.e. the violation of the Will of Allah. Or maybe not!

It (the two LAST acts of the two last prophets, Mohamed and Isa, SA) can be compared (as I believe it was meant to be and therefore, within this Sura you find the real account of the Last Supper which has become a real issue of controversy amongst theologians because of the mysteries of the painting by Leonardo Da Vinci (who wasn't a witness to the event afterall)). It's right there in black and white, English and Tegalog, Portuguese and French, Swahili and Urdu. Just pick up a Quran at your local bookseller. You won't be disappointed.

Aya (proof) 112-120, The Dinner Table

[5.112] When the disciples said: O Isa son of Marium! will your Lord consent to send down to us food from heaven? He said: Be careful of (your duty to) Allah if you are believers.
[5.113] They said: We desire that we should eat of it and that our hearts should be at rest, and that we may know that you have indeed spoken the truth to us and that we may be of the witnesses to it.
[5.114] Isa the son of Marium said: O Allah, our Lord! send i down to us food from heaven which should be to us an ever-recurring happiness, to the first of us and to the last of us, and a sign from Thee, and grant us means of subsistence, and Thou art the best of the Providers.
[5.115] Allah said: Surely I will send it down to you, but whoever shall disbelieve afterwards from among you, surely I will chastise him with a chastisement with which I will not chastise, anyone among the nations.
[5.116] And when Allah will say: O Isa son of Marium! did you say to men, Take me and my mother for two gods besides Allah he will say: Glory be to Thee, it did not befit me that I should say what I had no right to (say); if I had said it, Thou wouldst indeed have known it; Thou knowest what is in my mind, and I do not know what is in Thy mind, surely Thou art the great Knower of the unseen things.
[5.117] 1 did not say to them aught save what Thou didst enjoin me with: That serve Allah, my Lord and your Lord, and I was a witness of them so long as I was among them, but when Thou didst cause me to die, Thou wert the watcher over them, and Thou art witness of all things.
[5.118] If Thou shouldst chastise them, then surely they are Thy servants; and if Thou shouldst forgive them, then surely Thou art the Mighty, the Wise.
[5.119] Allah will say: This is the day when their truth shall benefit the truthful ones; they shall have gardens beneath which rivers flow to abide in them for ever: Allah is well pleased with them and they are well pleased with Allah; this is the mighty achievement.
[5.120] Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what is in them; and He has power over all things.