Friday, November 04, 2005
Eid Ul Fitr
Sorry for going AWOL , hope this poem makes up for it:
Fitr
So we are poured by the slipped sight of moon
Billion craned to the red singed sky
Dropping from 30,000 feet of Sawym head
Hitting the asphalt, nose to mat
Line by lane by line by lane,
Those of us who stuck dry our stomachs
And those of us who hid them
And all this because one man's tear
Pulled out a voice from the mountains
Wracking the artifice and shaking out "READ"
So, move on from scoff at dawn, Date at dusk
Take some of the mechanism of the Month
The jolting guide rail of the sun
The ease with which you collapsed your head
The heave with which you raised your hands
And apply.
By Ali Naqvi
Copyright LeftFieldMullah 2005
Fitr
So we are poured by the slipped sight of moon
Billion craned to the red singed sky
Dropping from 30,000 feet of Sawym head
Hitting the asphalt, nose to mat
Line by lane by line by lane,
Those of us who stuck dry our stomachs
And those of us who hid them
And all this because one man's tear
Pulled out a voice from the mountains
Wracking the artifice and shaking out "READ"
So, move on from scoff at dawn, Date at dusk
Take some of the mechanism of the Month
The jolting guide rail of the sun
The ease with which you collapsed your head
The heave with which you raised your hands
And apply.
By Ali Naqvi
Copyright LeftFieldMullah 2005
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Assalamu 'alaikum wa rahmatullai wa barakatuhu
I think I need to re-read the poem a few more times to really appreciate it, but alhamdulillah. I've been Muslim for a little over a year now and it's never occurred to me to read a poem about the deen. Thanks for the "heads up".
BTW, as I understand it, there is no such thing as intellectual property in Islam - the idea is usually considered haram. Perhaps you should check out the permissibility of having a ©opyright statement, inshaAllah.
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I think I need to re-read the poem a few more times to really appreciate it, but alhamdulillah. I've been Muslim for a little over a year now and it's never occurred to me to read a poem about the deen. Thanks for the "heads up".
BTW, as I understand it, there is no such thing as intellectual property in Islam - the idea is usually considered haram. Perhaps you should check out the permissibility of having a ©opyright statement, inshaAllah.
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