{"id":3071,"date":"2012-04-30T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T03:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2012-04-30T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T03:21:46","slug":"poem-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/poem-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: &#8220;I Am&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI AM\u2026\u201d is a poem by Hamza Abdul Malik who is one of our young scholars. Hamza, has memorized the Qur\u2019an in both Warsh and Hafs and has studied Arabic and Shari\u2019ah in Syria, Yemen, and is currently studying in Egypt. He wrote this poem after his wife\u2019s eighty-year old grandmother took Shahada!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/homeless.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3072 aligncenter\" title=\"homeless\" src=\"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/homeless.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/homeless.jpg 500w, https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/homeless-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>I AM\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>I am who I am because..<br \/>\nAllah made me who I am<\/p>\n<p>I am that dirty vagabond who sleeps in the alley,<br \/>\nbut if it wasn\u2019t for my prayers\u2026<br \/>\nGod would have punished the entire city,<br \/>\nbut since He loves me so,<br \/>\nHe shows them mercy and pity.<br \/>\nSo don\u2019t step on me when you see me sleeping<br \/>\nand don\u2019t hold your nose up when you see me weeping,<br \/>\nFor if you saw what my tears mean on the Day of Judgment<br \/>\nyou wouldn\u2019t be so fast in passing your baseless judgment.<\/p>\n<p>I am that\u2026<br \/>\nMuslim stripper that everyone hates,<br \/>\nwho was \u201cdoomed to hell\u201d or at least \u201cat its gates\u201d<br \/>\nbut one night after the club closed I was in the streets\u2026<br \/>\nand I saw a starving dog looking for something to eat,<br \/>\nso I used up the last of my dollars and nickels,<br \/>\nand I bought a hamburger and I took off the pickles,<br \/>\nand I gave it to the dog\u2026 and even though he still looked the same<br \/>\nlittle did I know that it was my fate that had changed<br \/>\nAllah saw this deed I did that no one thought of<br \/>\nso He gave me paradise just for me showing it so much love<\/p>\n<p>I am that\u2026<br \/>\nMuslim who prays five salats a day,<br \/>\nwho stays in wudu to keep devils away,<br \/>\nwho goes to the masjid and smiles to everyone, who..<br \/>\ngoes to itikaf with his daughters and sons but\u2026<br \/>\neats the flesh of his sister\u2019s and brothers and\u2026<br \/>\nfights his father and curses his mother\u2026 and<br \/>\ndoesn\u2019t show mercy to his wife and his kids, so he\u2026<br \/>\npunches his wife right under the eyelids\u2026 and he<br \/>\nbeats his children as hard as he can cuz\u2026<br \/>\nthat\u2019s only way he can feel like a man\u2026<br \/>\nand Allah only gives him respite, so\u2026<br \/>\nhe could repent from his sins and set his record right\u2026 but<br \/>\nif he isn\u2019t forgiven by his kids and his wife then\u2026<br \/>\nhe\u2019s got a world of pain coming to him in the next life\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I am that\u2026<br \/>\nOld woman eighty years of age whose\u2026<br \/>\ngot so much wisdom they call her a sage and..<br \/>\nshe lays on the bed and before she dies she\u2026<br \/>\ncalls her granddaughter to come by her side\u2026 and<br \/>\nshe tells her she\u2019s ready to die with Islam\u2026 so<br \/>\nshe tells her granddaughter, \u201cgo get the Quran..\u201d and\u2026<br \/>\nshe reads the verse \u201cTell those who disbelieved: if they stop, all their past will be forgiven.\u201d<br \/>\nand she stopped right there cuz her hands were shiverin\u2019\u2026 and<br \/>\nshe realized that she could not die a \u201ckaffa\u201d so she\u2026<br \/>\nraised up her index and took her shahada\u2026 and<br \/>\nher hand fell and she took a gasp\u2026 and<br \/>\nthat was the end because it was her last.. and<br \/>\nher life was sealed by that last saying so\u2026<br \/>\nshe went straight to Jenna without even praying\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m that..<br \/>\norphan who never got a chance in his youth to..<br \/>\nshare his talents and spit his truth\u2026 until<br \/>\nhe left the hood and went to the woods to\u2026<br \/>\nfind seclusion and the essence of good\u2026 he<br \/>\nwas inspired by God and was taught how to read\u2026 but<br \/>\nnot in the way that we\u2019d like to believe.<br \/>\nHe.. reads the hearts, the souls and the mind<br \/>\nHe\u2026 reads the heavens and reads its signs<br \/>\nHe\u2026 reads the lines and he reads the lips<br \/>\nof.. the ancient prophets and the ancient scripts<br \/>\nand he\u2026 teaches the people through actions and deeds.. and he<br \/>\ncarefully plants his wisdom in the hearts like seeds<br \/>\nhe teaches the lesson that we can all learn\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo Allah we belong and to Him we shall return\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newislamicdirections.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Imam Zaid Shakir\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI AM\u2026\u201d is a poem by Hamza Abdul Malik who is one of our young scholars. Hamza, has memorized the Qur\u2019an in both Warsh and Hafs and has studied Arabic and Shari\u2019ah in Syria, Yemen, and is currently studying in Egypt. He wrote this poem after his wife\u2019s eighty-year old grandmother took Shahada! 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