Khaled Hazem Nuseibeh was born in Amman, Jordan in the year 1961.
He received his school education at Dover College, England, and his Bachelor' and Master's degrees from Columbia and Princeton Universities respectively.
A poet, writer and translator, he owns and manages the Ubada Center For Writing and Translation Services.
Among the books he authored is Echoes of the Spirit and Gentle Wind which are both poetry collections.
Married to Suhayla Zabian he is the father of Zeinab and Sara.
By Khaled Hazem Nusseibeh
To Know & To Eternally Be
Can a theme be inexorably found
In the depths of a restless soul
Digging deep into an unknown
As though a reality in intangible shrouds
The frontiers of a vast unseen
Anchored in a perceptible self
Conscious of a tiny particle of truth
In the immense ocean of the expanse
Is it physical matter or pure spirit?
Kindred though distinct planes
The senses blur a great vision
Bringing things down to matter
The yearnings for an absolute
Beaten down by earth’s sway
Only to renew an ineffable quest
To know and to eternally be
Travels Beyond
The mystic traveler has a tryst with truth
A moment of joyous love of God
He sees naught but His cosmic presence
Nearer to the heart than the jugular vein
Knowledge of God is an endless trail
To be trodden with yearning for more
Dazzled is a heart of a praising soul
The universe a sign of the Great Lord
But a dazzled heart must be from sin washed
Pondering the truth that encompasses all
The journey to know has a weapon to use
A Shari'ah that’s God’s guide to spirit’s trek
Subhanallah is the utterance of a heart consumed
The calling to fear an Omniscient God
The traveler meets His Lord even at a labyrinth
Dhikr that nears him to God’s unknowable mercy
Life is a canyon of pleasure immense
Matching dhikr is unattainable quest
Afterlife is the soothing thought of penitent hearts
Paradise the splendid abode of an awaited morrow
And hellfire the fear of a heart torn
Grief at the sins of a youthful day
Love of Muhammad is the tune of wondrous worship
Peace on him the guide of knowing souls
A haqiqa of amazing surrender
A repository of Revelation Divine
God’s Word anchored in Muhammad’s radiant heart
Uncreated speech of truth and love
Ahmad the guide and mercy to every world
Illumining darkness with shining truth
The traveler years for Ahmad to know his Lord
Following the exemplar of obedience to God
Journeyers of noble though unrested souls
Finding a truth beyond reason’s bound
The kings may strike the saints with swords
If only they knew the pleasures of dhikr’s way
Stations of Galaxies
I do not swear by the stations of galaxies
For a question unveils the secret of oath
Does the moon in splendor forever glimmer?
And doesn’t it in complete form recoil to a crescent?
The sun at noon with brilliance shines
But sinks in reddish orange at a distant horizon
The stars illumine a darkness of intense depth
But fade from the view of earthly life
Pyramids stoutly stand with magnificent posture
But are immensely below the nearest cloud
Abraham exclaims revolt at vanishing splendor
Affirming that God is without twilight
I do not swear by the stations of galaxies
For being is conditional on Almighty God
The tallest wave on the shore’s sand breaks
Yielding to numbers of succeeding waves
Michelangelo’s David stuns the viewing eye
Exceeded by the creations of other men of art
The sea waves and earth bow to the Macedonian’s conquest
But death chooses to its side the finest general
Athena makes each citizen a member of the jury
But history’s indomitable verdict is that all have an end
I do not swear by the stations of galaxies
For finite life overwhelms all that lives.