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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>True Love and ACTION; Love Is Deed (How To Truely LOVE a HERO)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">To Manal Saigh: my niece who inspired me<br> to put my feelings about 'Cartoon Crisis' into words: </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>Ah me! LOVE <br>Is a sensitive, <br>And such<br>A delicate being; <br>It is a flower<br>In need for a shower<br>Of many a thing: <br>Words and care, <br>Not only gazing; <br>Though gazing<br>Is so glowing <br>And nourishing <br>For LOVE, <br>But it is only so <br>In the very beginning.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Love is a rare lilac<br>That needs careful<br>Occasional watering, <br>It is a red dewy rose, <br>Whose petal<br>You can't nail, <br>But certainly touch<br>Love is a playful cuddly <br>Fluffy kitten; <br>She loves kissing and hugging, <br>Love needs dialogue <br>Not argument, <br>Love is clarity; <br>It is not a game of power, <br>Or exchanging hints, <br>The winner is the loosing one<br>For love can not live <br>If one is always initiative<br>And the other in the receiving end; <br>One acts and the other<br>Reacts to what he gets, <br>The one who speaks <br>Will go dumb<br>In the long run. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Love needs constant<br>Nourishment for<br>Its soul, heart, <br>Mind and Flesh, <br>Needs genuine care; <br>Everlasting attendance, <br>Love is taking and giving; <br>It just can't go on living<br>Single handed; <br>It can never live<br>When one side is giving<br>And the other is welling<br>To only take; <br>SO<br>Nurture it with<br>Knowledge which<br>The mind needs; <br>With passion for<br>The heart sphere, <br>Elevate the human<br>Spirit and nourish <br>Love's soul with <br>Spiritual words<br>And deeds, <br>So that it could<br>Reach its peak<br>In the last step; <br>Full and flesh fulfillment<br>FOR: <br>Love is: action <br>What is love, <br>If action is not to be; <br>Practical deeds, <br>Not only words? <br>Though words in Love<br>Give a VERY, VERY<br>Feeding and supportive <br>Vibration.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I am trying hard<br>To show you Mohammad<br>My true LOVE, <br>In words as in action<br>And enhancing DEED, <br>I paid a high price<br>From my nerves; <br>My very life <br>And still ready<br>To pay even more, if it needs.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I look at the news<br>Everyday, <br>In the television, <br>In different channels, <br>I hear it in the Radio<br>From everywhere, <br>And try to analyze; <br>To understand<br>What I see, <br>I realize with a resentment; <br>With an OOOOH, <br>It is a kind of<br>Projection of<br>Our fear; <br>Anger from ourselves, <br>Not just the other ones, <br>It is similar to their PARANOIA, <br>For we are responsible<br>Not only some prejudiced<br>Or ignorant<br>People in the West.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Angry crowds<br>Shouting everywhere<br>In a hysterical way<br>From a cartoon<br>That tried to antagonize us<br>To get such <br>A spontaneous reaction, <br>Not a thinking result.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Mohammad you clarified<br> This religion for us<br>And this is the time we should<br>Give clarity to humanity<br>In return to what you gave: <br>For we Muslims betrayed<br>You Mohammad peace<br>Be upon You, <br>And all of Al Mighty<br>Messengers and prophets-<br>Such as Moses and Jesus-<br>Before some non believers<br>In the East or West.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>This is not a justification<br>For their terrible deed, <br>But a rather<br>Self REPROACH; <br>I do not care about their <br>Shortcomings, <br>Yet I care to change ours; <br>Nothing after heresy<br>Is considered a sin, <br>It's between them <br>And The Creator, <br>The result is on<br>The Last Day<br>But certainly I do care<br>For their merits, <br>To improve what we lack; <br>Take a critical look<br>To see how we treat<br>Those who are in need<br>For our help: <br>Students, youngsters<br>The poor and widows, <br>I will mention my<br>Horrible experience<br>As a post graduate<br> Student in research: <br>Few in the Muslim world<br>Encouraged me as a researcher, <br>As a writer <br>And a poetess <br>Like people in the West did, <br>Look at the way<br>They, or rather<br> Most of them, <br>Cheer their students<br>To be better, <br>And you should try <br>As tried I<br>To dive deep; <br> To LEARN <br>From their attitude, <br>How to build not destroy<br>A young girl or boy; <br>The new generation<br>That look up <br>To you teachers, professors, <br>For guidance; for help<br>Look at their libraries, <br>Learning facilities<br>And Universities which they <br>Took their root from<br> Ours in Andalusia<br>And developed it later on, <br>Try to respect <br>SCIENCE and EDUCATION<br>As they and our<br> Great Grandfathers<br> Before them did.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">If we are to blame<br>Then we should<br>Blame ourselves, <br>Before anyone else, <br>As well as some of those<br>In non Muslim countries; <br>The ignorant ones <br>In East or The West.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>Take a look at the way<br>We apply Mohammad's<br>Principles and concept-<br>And what is genuine love, <br>If it were not application<br>And true attachment-<br>You will see only rituals<br>That are hollow from depth, <br>We minimized Islam<br>To some minor ideas, <br>To a lot of tradition; <br>To silly customs and habits<br>As what happens in our weddings, <br>Or when people submit their spirits, <br>Islam thus became <br>Something like: <br>Reading Qur'an<br>Without trying<br>To understand its depth, <br>A short 'Thoub'; wear for men, <br>A big untidy beard, <br>Beads to count and just<br>Covering woman's face<br>Which is not compulsory<br>In this superb creed, <br>But fanatics say it is so, <br>And insist their view<br>Is the only right one.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>We say we are Muslims, <br>But most of us <br>Commit almost<br>Most of the sins <br>Of the non believers<br>In the West, <br>Or even the far East, <br>And other extra sins<br>That are invented by us, <br>We pray but do not <br>Love Him with real awe; <br>For if we loved <br>The real love then<br>And only then <br>We would have <br>Worshipped Allah<br>In the right practical way<br>That's suitable for Him; <br>We would have never<br>Worshipped money-<br>Like the Red Necks, <br>We would have never <br>Killed ourselves to get<br>More money, <br>Status or titles, <br>And other materialistic things.<br> <br>We fast but sleep<br>All day long, <br>And hate to work <br>During the Fasting Day, <br>It is true Many Muslims<br>Still pray, <br>Hopefully it does <br>Not go like hay<br>For praying does not<br>Make them stop<br>Committing the Major sins: <br>They get drunk<br>From alcohol or opium, <br>Trade with interests, <br>Refuse polygamy, <br>Yet accept extra-<br>Marital relationship; <br>And call it just a whim, <br>Not the real name: <br>ADULTRY, <br>Chaperones refuse<br>To let young girls, under <br>Their custody or rather<br>Control, marry; <br>They keep themselves<br>Blind to the reality<br>Of their youngsters having<br>Boy or girl friend, <br>What a horrible thing<br>To accept adultery <br>As a normal thing <br>And refuse polygamy<br>Or divorce as a shameful<br>Catastrophe like what the non-<br>Believing Romans did, <br>Divorce and polygamy are<br>Sometimes a kind of a gift; <br>Hypocrisy and distorted<br> Ideas as such<br> Destroy society<br>From within.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">If we applied Mohammad's<br>Principles when we mingle<br>With different people<br> In the East or the West, <br>The fair as the ignorant ones-<br>I do not count<br>The biased minority- <br>Would have understood Islam, <br>As it happened in the past: <br>In Indonesia, Melissa, <br>Parts of China, <br>Eastern and southern Europe, <br>Most of Africa <br>And Philosophical India, <br>But most of us<br>Smeared the beautiful face<br>Of this magnificent religion.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> And still, we get angry<br>When others hate it, <br>Abuse it or insult it, <br>Well, <br>Neither do I like it; <br>In fact I resent it<br>So much, <br>Yet, <br>I can't blame others<br>For hating what <br>Muslims failed to represent, <br>Muslims please wakeup<br>Before The Day of Judgment.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=464958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">25 Feb.2006</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Nadia+Abduljabbar">Nadia Abduljabbar</a></strong></div>