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 Basra
Days
O
free country, why have you caged my friend?
O free country, I'm not your salesman!
And as I walk your streets, I miss home
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 Gray
Grass
dormant, in death like sleep
crunchy beneath her weakened feet
as she drags her tired shadow
on the path that grows ever narrow…
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 Are You Living?
I once read somewhere that you can't choose how your life begins, and you can't choose how your life ends, but in-between, you can choose who you want to be. Life is filled with uncertainties, it's an adventure waiting to happen. Opportunities are waiting at every corner, but how long will it take to turn your fantasies into dreams and your dreams into a reality. How much are you willing to risk to discover yourself, in fact, are you willing to take risks at all?
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 Our
Duty
The
Muslim faces many challenges in this modern world
Shave
your beard they tell Muhammad remove your hijab they tell the
girl
But
feel not despondent for Allah is by your side
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 Marriage
Allah
created Adam and then followed the creation of his wife
To
be there for each other through this journey of life
Marriage
is the tradition of all the Anbiyah
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 About Allah
The wind blew off, the pain flew in
Allah's mercy quickly drove in
Looking at the sky, even though it seems blank
The water of mercy splashed on us.
Because food we eat, and the drink we drink
the eyes we have, the mind we think
the hands we use, the legs we walk on
are all just a sign that Allah is Alone
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 Who Are You Calling On?
I have a lot of dreams ahead
I don’t know when I’ll be dead
But I don’t want to sit under saint
The philosophy is too lame
You know what they say about Allah
That He is present everywhere
Not my Allah, not my God
Lo, He sits on His throne in Heaven!
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 The
Sands
The
sands, they flow
Grain
by grain
Each
grain a second
In
a life soon spent
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Lesser Value
What is this you see before you
This vision of a thought
A crack in an idea
Spawned from naught...
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My Final Words
Laying on my death bed
All on my own
I lived my life and now
Old I have grown…
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To Whom It May Concern
Hatred for our brother spread world wide
We smile in his face and hide what's inside
Hypocrisy we call it nothing else my dear brother
Clean your heart from it please because we need each other…
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Darkness
& Light
Lost in a world of bright
lights
I don’t feel the sting of the devil’s bite
My ears are deaf to the voices of the angels
I only hear the sound of the casino tables…Read
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Nature
When
we open our eyes
On this huge and beautiful universe
We see something nice
Something really marvelous…
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By R. Afridi
And Muhammad is His Messenger
O Muhammad, my hand is inept to draw your life
Your graces, your jihad for His Word and your love!
Each dewdrop, each beauty in affair you champion
You gave to humanity, you returned to Allah
As wonderful and triumphant as a pen breathing in an ocean of ink...
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By
Aiman S. Ahmed
Loving my Ummah
I wish to hug each one of you
This love I have is magical
It grows and grows so naturally
No limits does it know...
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By
Rym Aoudia
Dare to Dream
I
have a dream and that dream is to have a dream. Ever reach
that point in your life were you just scream STOP! Just
Stop! And think, who am I? Why am I here? What am I meant
to do here? Isn’t it scary that...
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By
Hajra Kamdar
Who Decides?
Standing in front of the mirror, she gazes long and hard at the innocent girl standing in front of her. Tears blur her vision as the universal question lingers in her mind. Will I ever be beautiful?...
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By
Hajra Kamdar
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SHATTERED!
She knows what she wants. What she doesn’t know is how to get it, or maybe she knows but something or someone is standing between herself and her dreams…
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By
Hajra Kamdar
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Uncle
Sam
Sometimes
I feel the world is over
And my life reached its end
Other times I realize the end is so far
I even wonder, will I be there when it comes
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By
Imane El Fechtani
Angels Come and Go
No
matter how long I scream
When
your life is empty
Sitting in your corner feeling lonely
Your life is black
You feel that it lacks luck
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By
Imane El Fechtani
Lost
Voices
No
matter how long I scream
No
matter how hard I try
My
voice cannot reach you
Or
is it that you don’t care…
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By
Imane El Fechtani
Think
About Allah
Look
at the sun setting and you're just betting and forgetting
Have
you seen the flower growing or the sea flowing?
Have
you forgotten who has created you or shall I wake you by saying
'boo'?
Come
honey forget about the money just think about your Creator -
leave the rest till later… Read
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By
Aamina Ismaeel Howell
To
the Muslim Youth
O
dear Muslim youth
Have
you ever wondered
About
the brightness of the cluster of stars
From
which you have fallen apart … Read
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By Naveed R. Butt
Dhahran
Getting
Up and Finding Myself
My
little sister passed away and I miss her. I miss her voice; I
miss her smile; I miss talking to her, sharing crazy stories; I
miss all of us dancing in my room; I miss just being silly, and
when we laugh for no reason and just can’t stop; I miss
teasing her.
It seems my world stopped when she died because it was so
unexpected—but that is death, isn’t it?
A new world has begun for me where I am a new person, everything ...
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By
Fatima
Ali
 I
Am a Refugee
When
you look at me who do you see?
Do you look at me with sympathy or with glee?
When you look at me who do you see?
Cos I'll tell you who I am, I'm a refugee
Sometimes when you see me you make a lot of noise
But how will you understand me if you don’t give me a voice...More>>
By
Naseema
Mall
 The
Orphan Child
In
the far-off chair of imagination
Sits a child, an orphan boy of o’er twelve
The matron locks the attic door
And hustles to the radio downstairs
The solitary child shakes his soul
And creeps to the wonderful window
The moon charges in the dark ...
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By Aiman S. Ahmed
 I
Hear No Voices
I
hear no voices when I should
Only sighs of vain regrets
Empty speeches about life
Wizened men in their dark overcoats
Shivering to the cold of the breeze
I hear no voices from the young
Cinema, sex, cricket and Coke...
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By Aiman S. Ahmed
Ramadan:
Me and My Family
Ramadan,
the blessed and beloved month has arrived. Lucky are the ones
who are striving hard to please Allah Most High in Ramadan.
It’s the time when we can develop many good habits and help
others to get closer to Allah. I am sure some of you are
the eldest siblings at home as I am, al-hamdu lillah, so
there are some additional responsibilities on us. We must
realize the fact that young Muslims are the future of this
Ummah, so we must be a good example for them to follow. We must
realize that it is our duty to help them understand the
beautiful teachings of Islam... More>>
By Rabiah Bint ul Islam
Let's
Stand Side by Side in Ramadan
We
are all one Ummah regardless where we live.
Let's be practical.
Remember
all your Family in your prayers BY NAME
Remember
all your friends in your prayers BY NAME TOO
Make
taa'at with your friends -gather to make Ramadan bags, to serve
iftar for ma'edet Rahman, to recite Qur`an- any taa'at that will
make you feel that you are not one but you are a part of a big
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By
Ayah Medhat
 The
Bismillah Rhyme
Bismillah!
The buds now burst into hues unimaginable;
Flowery nerves fattening up by the blessing of our Lord
Wondrous things to perform … not on stage, not on stand
But in nooks of cooler sand … the plant now whorls
Into our worlds, waltzing to the poet’s carts—Shakespeare
carts—
We’re all poets at the heart … lug them up the dusty path
The clouds must hold our pain till we’ve reached home …
To the sun’s veil we cling slipping to the evening again... More>>
By
Aiman Noor
 Beautiful
Rain
What
beautiful rain tonight
It's pouring down from the cloudy sky
A thousand drops
Singing intermittently
While the wind winds
Composing a beautiful rhythm... More>>
By
Mohamad Zaki, Malaysia
 One
Man's Day in London Town
One
man grieves, as his world is at loss
And
the world is at loss as he grieves...
And
one man kills for his country's cause
Yet
the true cause he never perceives...
Then
one man cries, as his home is destroyed
What's
destroyed is the honor of men...
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By
T.L. Vicedomine
Friendship
How
long does a friendship take?
A
year?
An
hour?
A
day?
A
month?
Or
does it take forever?
A
lifetime?
It
takes as long as it takes
Loyalty,
Trustworthy,
Care.
All
I know is,
Friendship
is huge,
Like
a bear.
By
Burooj Khan, age 12
I
Am From…
I
am from Wisconsin, my room, the playground.
I
am from A’ishah, Khalid, Nuh, Somia.
I
am from horses, swimming, volleyball, Spongebob.
I
am from “stand up,” “don’t let other people push you
around.”
I
am from the hill, the stream.
I
am from Ramadan and `Eid.
I
am from Allah.
Burooj
Khan, age 12
Muslim Child
Look at me!
Can you see!
I am a Muslim
child,
happy as can
be.
Allah's my guide
by day and
night.
He loves me
and cares for me
and makes my
life bright.
Look at me!
Can you see!
I am a Muslim
child,
happy as can
be.
By Haroon Rafiq
Imagine
Imagine
yourself after you pass away
Imagine your grave through night and through day
Wishing that you did not do as they say
Wishing that you had got up and had prayed.
Imagine,
my friends, the day that you died
Imagine all of the tears that they cried
Remember how it felt when your body was tied
Remember how it felt in the grave which you lied.
Imagine
the day you'll be called to account
Imagine the sum to which your life will amount
Think for a moment of the deeds which you
mount
Think
for a moment how much they will count.
What
will they say of you when you are dead?
What will they say, what will be said?
Will they speak of all the poor who you fed?
Will they remember all the Qu'ran that you read?
Think
not of them, but of Allah, Lord of mankind and jinn
Think of Allah when tempted to sin
Think of the paradise which you will dwell in
Don't wait till later to think what might have been.
Unknown Author
When You Look at Me
When you look at me
you only see the shell I live within,
So don't judge me by
my accent or the color of my skin,
We only differ
outwardly in hue or form or line,
So marvel at the
beauty of Allah's great design,
For He will only grade
us by our Taqwa and Imam,
The noblest in the
sight of God is oft despised by man.
By Dina
Today I Found a Friend
Today I found a
friend,
Who knew everything I
felt
She knew my every
weakness,
And the problems I've
been dealt.
She understood my
wonders,
And listened to my
dreams.
She listened to how I
felt about life and love,
And knew what it all
means.
Not once did she
interrupt me,
Or tell me I was
wrong.
She understood what I
was going through,
And promised she'd
stay long.
I reached out to this
friend
To show her that I
care,
To pull her close and
let her know
How much I need her
there.
I went to hold her
hand
To pull her a bit
nearer,
And realized that this
perfect friend I found
Was nothing but my
mirror.
By Monica Khatri
Whose Summertime Blues?
All of a sudden, it
seems to have stopped
Meaningless subjects for a meaningless world
Where meaningless adults
Promise that it could all work
If we only do what they have not learnt
Bahh!
Here I am again
Summer is here and so
Are the girls,
The boys, the hole in my pocket
The tricks and games to
A high on a lie
Same old story
Same old song
The things is
Where I want to be
Is not where my friends
Are at
On short-lived dreams
Well as for my parents
Who is to say
All I know is that I don’t want to end up that way.
What I want is not quite clear,
But one thing for sure, no one wants to hear
About how I feel what is going on
And how much I want to belong
To a world that doesn’t keep a poor person down
And where hope is a word that’s not far from the
Cradle
But a place where a young person is not made to
Feel
Stupid
Sick or
Unable
To do the impossible
By Irfan
Allah is Near
When
I woke up I felt so scared
Bombs all around me,
and I just stared
I shouted Mummy! And I
ran to the stairs
But no sound came from
over there,
I ran to the back and
I shouted again,
No sound came and I
grieved with pain.
What shall I do? Where
shall I go?
I can’t remember
ever feeling so low
Here I am all alone
frightened down to my very bone
Oh Allah! This has
made it clear,
No matter what – You
are always near
This has taken away my
fear,
Because my final
destiny is not here,
For Your sake I will
take all aboard
Until I meet you,
Almighty Lord.
By Muhammad Randera
The
Beggar’s Prayer
Even though I scream, no one hears
Even though I shout, no one cares…
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What
is the Purpose of this Life?
What
is the purpose of this life?
Money,
holidays, a beautiful wife?
There
is no point in us denying
Each
heart beat brings us closer to dying
You’ll
breathe your last
Your
life will have past
Don’t
pretend
Death’s
not the end...
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Author Unknown
Islam
Is True
Islam is true, the
modest deen
Muslim women, their beauty unseen
Islam is true,
teaching peace
Making its followers feel at ease
Islam is true, five
prayers a day
We worship Allah what more can I say?
Islam is true, young
boys in the mosque wearing white
Praying in the mosque all night
Islam is true, with
all the Rasul
Who all obeyed Allah's rules
Islam is true, of
which fasting is part
Making a better person within your heart
Islam is true, the
feasts of Eid
Along with Naats and Nasheeds
Islam is true, with
schools that teach
A Muslim’s hand is always out to reach
Islam is true, its
peace I preach
Islam is true, for all and each
By Razaanah Azizzuddin
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