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I am your brother Adam |
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Anonymous |
12/30/01 at 00:36:17 |
I am your brother, Adam I am Pakistani and Somali and Arab: I am Turk and Irani and native of the Maldives: My home is in Paris, Berlin, London; in Mexico City, Port-of-Spain, Durban; in Karachi, Zagazig or Kuala Lumpur. I am as at home sailing in a lateen rigged baggala along the red-rock Oman shores bound for Socotra's island as I am crossing the Khyber Pass in a camel caravan...or driving a Mercedes taxi in Istanbul. Na'am, aiwa, acha, kha, I am your brother, Adam. You will know me in the mosques when I stand shoulder to shoulder with you and wish you peace when prayer is done: and you may see me in Isfahan talking with a miniature painter or in Dera Ismail Khan listening to a young and vocal teacher of Urdu or in Medan listening to a old man chanting the Quran or in Sacramento listening to a college boy who has all the problems of the universe solved. You will know me because I am your brother and in a real and forceful sense I am a part of you, dependent on you as you are dependent on me...as rocks in a city wall... round as the ancient wall of Baghdad. I am Egyption and Tunisian and Syrian: I am Berber and Kurd; Fulani and Nausherwani and Pawenda; I am Shii and Sunni; Maliki, Hanafi, Hanbali, and Shafei: all these I am, for I am your brother standing besides you in the mosque waiting for the iqama...white-garbed in the plain of Arafat...fasting with you in Ramadan. I am at home in the black tents of the bedu and the tall buildings of Hadhramaut...; I am always lingering at the Great Mosque to circle the Kaaba and to kiss the hajr ul-aswed and drink from the well of Zemzem; and I am standing, too, in the Haraam ash-sharif in Jerusalem and in Kerbala...and all of them, each of them, has meaning on meaning for me. Na'am ya habibi, ya azizi, ya akhi, I am your brother Adam. You will know me when you see me because I wll be fingering my beads and you will know well what this means... subhanallah... You will know me and I will know you for we are real brothers; and I am of one place as I am of another...as much a part of one as the other; the lover of all lands where I can listen to the call of the muezzin coming over the night, or hear the beat of a single Muslim heart. Anonymous |
Re: I am your brother Adam |
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Rehana |
01/03/02 at 08:07:54 |
[slm] [quote] ....the beat of a single Muslim heart. [/quote] AnNuman son of Basheer (RAA) reported that Allah's messenger (SAW) said what translated means: [color=green][center][i]" You see the believers in their mutual mercy, affection, and compassion like one body: if any organ of it ails, the whole body will tend to it with wakefulness and fever."[/i][/center][/color] Al-Bukhari [slm] |
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