Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Unity, in the face of Division and Disarray

is breaking all the rules better than Jannah? (Paradise)
is making that deal better than Jannah? (Unity)
is the freedom of feigned gnorance better than Jannah? (Heaven)
is livin' in America better than Jannah? (The Greatest of Gardens)
Oh! Dunya, Oh! Fitna, recall for me your fitra
what about bacon? - NO bacon please, NO bacon.

Oh! Christianica, do you know what you've been missin'?
Escaped from persecution across the bluest ocean
to do some persecut'n
then sold your soul for a rock and a roll
to capture the flag for the feelin'
Oh! land of the brave who fought for all these freedoms.

Salam, Oh! Muslims of east and west
(you sufis, sunnis and you shi'as)
put down your guns and listen -
beware the empty fundamentalist
and guard against the shirk of ethno-centricity
you who witness, those called to a middle path,
those of at-tauheed-centricity.

Shalom to you Oh! bini Isra'el (and us all, bini adam all the same)
the horrors you've seen, seem to have killed your yahweh
but don't excuse the things you've done in his name.

And peace to you who refuse belief(s),
or see more gods than I see trees:
lets you and me, and all of we,
let's work together and strive to be,
a better tomorrow, let's plant these seeds
for as some say, this may be all we get,
so let's agree to save some of this inheritance
to make a future, an inheritable-tense
a legacy of hope for the generations to come
instead of begging for the end,
as if we could force tribulation's hand
and put lip to the horn,
and commence.

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