What can I say on your day
When every day is your day?
O Muhammad ! O Taha ! O shafina on the Last Day!
From the day you stood to say:
O Man ! Im but a man
Sent to save you, sent to tell you
The way thatll lead you away
From the one who led you astray
To the One Who made you n the best way...
I was twenty-two years old when I decided to borrow Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet from my University library to read it at home. I had long heard so much about that story that I was eager to know the first words that Romeo would exchange with Juliet. Because of the aura that had been created in...
Whats all this tale about the veil?
Fred and Gail shout and hail
Straw as hero
For his hail of fire on Aïshas attire.
Did Straw want Aïsha to show
Herself from head to toe?
Let Gail wear a mini-skirt
For her flirt.
And let Aïsha wear on her face
Or on her hair
Whatever piece
That would bring...
I'm new, too. A poem to start with:
Lies
They tell me
There's the moon and the stars
And the skies and nothing beyond the skies.
Lies!
There's God beyond the skies,
I tell you.
When that woman gave birth
To her little son
She didn't feel that the Earth
Travels around the sun.
It's all one...
On his blog my dog
Writes about animal rights:
We animals, says my dog,
Should be safe from rain, heat or fog;
We should be well-fed with the best milk and the best bread;
We should work no more than we were made for:
Its not because a donkey doesnt complain
That he doesnt feel the pain;
Nay...
I offer God for what is gone
A spirit patient and resigned,
As too, for what ensued thereon,
The praises of a grateful mind.
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Tawq al-Hamama , IBN HAZAM (994-1064)