My Islam

What Islam is to me

My Islam is Haile Selassie riding the Lion of Judah

My Islam is Leonard Howell handing out photographs

My Islam is Brother Gad uniting the Twelve Tribes of Israel

My Islam is Lady Lee changing hearts at the Western Front

 

My Islam is Buddha teaching the Five principles of Reality

My Islam is Zen skinheads chanting against reason

My Islam is the way

My Islam is falling 1,000 miles per hour into no mind

 

My Islam is Jesus breaking bread at passover

My Islam is Pelagius upholding truth against the prevailing lies

My Islam is Quaker pacifist standing still in the midst of war

My Islam is Mary breathing her last earthly breath

 

My Islam is Gabriel tap dancing on the open flames in a cave

My Islam is Muhammad being an imperfect guide for us to follow

My Islam is Aisha standing her ground in a time when women were meant to be silent

My Islam is Unity without division or exception

 

My Islam is Moses breaking the Tables

My Islam is wrestling with angels until morning

My Islam is Elijah being carried away by a fire-chariot

My Islam is Ezekiel measuring the limits of a U.F.O.

 

My Islam is Aradia preaching in the hills of Tuscany

My Islam is Isobel Goodwin walking away free

My Islam is a bonfire blazing into the early morning hours

My Islam is naked baring all for the world to see

 

My Islam is Noble Drew Ali passing out tonics and lottery numbers

My Islam is the sound of pure unfiltered Jazz

My Islam is Walid al-Taha reciting poetry over forgotten airwaves

My Islam is Steve Adyt keeping the flame alive

 

My Islam is William S. Burroughs shooting his shotgun into paintings

My Islam is Edger Allen Poe dancing on his own grave

My Islam is Lydia Lunch speaking in one monotone tempo

My Islam is Michael Muhammad Knight walking a tight line between being orthodox and being heretical

 

My Islam is punk rock giving the world the middle finger

My Islam is the Cure making depression beautiful

My islam is talking politicks with fragile Anarchists

My Islam is a downpour on a sunny summer day

 

My Islam is Zevi helping the universe heal

My Islam is waking up from dogmatic death

My Islam is taking responsibility for yourself

My Islam is falling in love with every flaw that you have

 

My Islam is the W.D.Fard falling off the face of the earth

My Islam is Pudding leaving behind his 13x

My Islam is Science and Mathematics

My Islam is an ongoing education

 

My Islam is Me

Living breathing growing

Now I must ask, What is your Islam?

 

 

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[HungryGhost]

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[Abdul Batin Osman Bey]

Thank you very much I posted this a while ago, am glad someone else besides me enjoyed this.