Death is a reality and COVID has made us numb to its reality. Grieving is not an online activity but a real life experience because we are not dumb.
Category: Poetry
Afghanistan is America’s Second Vietnam.
Afghanistan is said to be the graveyard of superpowers. The statement has proven true yet again with USA pulling out after the Russian’s hopeless failure. The world awaits a new era but holds on to engendered stereotyping and hazy generalisations of Islam and Muslims.
Tea Lovers
South Africa is on the precipice of an agricultural disaster. From internationally acclaimed orange farms gone rotten to tea plantations becoming weeds; we might be in bread lines.
I CANNOT SLEEP!
I wonder what the result would be if both sides had the same military hardware. Disproportionate warfare is cowardice.
This is the Man
I walked the graveyard and looked at names of those I should have praised. Long gone are they so I say:
Don’t put roses of my grave
to make regret your master and you the slave.
Be in my company and together we the live the gaze
of the One who is all worthy of praise.
Allah.
Image by MUHAMMED BAHCECİK from Pixabay (Young boy memorising the Holy Quran)
Bonds of Love.
How would you wish for your father to write poems after your death about you? It is a dream of millions. A bond of love between father and son is prophetic in nature especially when anointed with spirituality.
MYAMAR -Coup d’état
Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won the elections in November.
YANGON – Myanmar’s military has detained the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an apparent coup.
The military claims it carried out the coup in response to election fraud.
(ENCA.COM)
THE MEDIA SPIN CONTINUES. THE HUMAN SUFFERING – UNREPORTED.
Picture credit:AFP/Lillian Suwanrumpha
Oh! Muhammad ﷺ
“And which of the favours of your Lord can you deny.”
Holy Quran. Chapter 55.
House Demolitions!
In the first year of the Al Aqsa Intifada alone (Sept 2001 – 2002) over 9,000 homes were demolished, making 40,000 Palestinians homeless. Ismail A Patel. Palestine. Beginner’s Guide. Page 192
100!
“Don’t count the days. Make the days count! ” Muhammad Ali
100 Publications is the Victory. What has knocked you out?
Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston. Photo Credit: Neil Leifer 1965
