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Advert taken from The Azali Times
Requirements:
Male or female
Young or old
Black or White
Rich or poor
Single or married
Divorced or disowned
Total submission needed
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I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien. Sting
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This is what I think it means to be a British Muslim today, who was born and bred in England but hailed from immigrant parents. To have an eclectic medley of voices swirling around in your brain. Living and constantly shifting between different worlds, religions, languages, cultures, traditions and voices, all competing for some kind of hold on your identity, on your spirit, your will. All this baggage, mixed-loyalties, competing face masks and fashions stuffed into a short-lived life, which, for many of us, typically consists of home, school, mosque and holidays to Pakistan and the holy lands or whichever country you hail from.
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Salman the Green of Syria
Roamed the streets in search of marifah
Missiles whizzed and whined above his head
Children hid and the skinny street dogs fled.
I wrote this poem in response to this moving footage of the Abu Shaar brothers’ visitation of the blessed resting place of Imam Al Hussain in Cairo, may Allah sanctify his secret. I am exploring the possible reaction of a twisted mind, if it was among the audience…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMg48Uc22l0
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When I tasted their tears
my heart never recovered
I felt the love that touched their souls
that moved these blessed brothers.
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In honour of Sidi Ahmad Zarruq’s maqam in Misrata.
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“Knock it! Burn it! Pulverise it to the ground!”
They cheered uncovering Az Zarruq’s mound.
“In the name of pure and unadulterated tawheed
We cleanse this wretched house of idolatry!
For Allah’s deen this is a clear victory!
And may God curse those who make this dead man their deity!
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I came across an atheist
who spoke with irony,
He asked me: “are you Muslim?”
I replied: “most certainly!”
He scoffed and cocked his eyebrow
regarding me with disdain
“how could you believe in” he said,
“a bunch of fairy tales!
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While the rank and file of defiant Hamas
Locked down the city for imminent attack
While the suffering mothers of the Gaza strip
Gathered up their brood for a perilous trip
While the tanks and the trucks of the IDF
Charged along the highway like a crazed express
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You can come and pray on any day
Inside this lovely masjid
But just you remember this my son
This is my mosque you stupid!
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Terry and June, the notorious two
scorned and reviled by their neighbours
husband and wife, walking trouble and strife
abhorred for their deplorable behaviour!
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As they stumbled and screeched down the sanctimonious street,
embroiled in a boiling domestic:
“You’re a lousy liar! You’re a rotten two-timer!”
“Stop whining you wench! You make me sick!”
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