'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

Assalaamu alaikum.

This poem has been my ever-green favourite since childhood.

When one makes a decision after making istikhaara, s/he should not look back. Once we make a decision, we should be confident on own selves. Rest all will come from Allah s.w.t.

The Road Not Taken (1915)
by Robert Frost (1874–1963)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

"This poem has been and continues to be used as an inspirational poem, one that to the undiscerning eye seems to be encouraging self-reliance, not following where others have led. But a close reading of the poem proves otherwise. It does not moralize about choice, it simply says that choice is inevitable but you never know what your choice will mean until you have lived it."

LIVE YOUR CHOICE ! Ask the Creator to Help. When one makes a decision after making istikhaara, s/he should not look back. Once we make a decision we should be confident on own selves. Rest all will come from Allah s.w.t.


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