Brother Islamic Poems

With my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration...

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To dwell in paradise
In company of the noble Prophet
Get these ingredients
And have a share in the everlasting merriments
Shaadah
It is to testify
That no other deity is...

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Your love is embedded under my thin 
Skin 
Though the western territories are working harder 
To paint you negatively 
I still fall in love with...

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My Father  Your Father Our Father

My guardian and protector from the evils of deception
I thrive in your presence by learning from your correction
The past...

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My life is not yours to take
Your life is not my to take
Your life is not my to take
Not in the middle of the night
When...

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Rise up
my African Sisters
speak your truths
of intimacy and death
internal monopolizations of feeling desperately dark
suffocating
with hatred and fear and anger
about your man,
your brother
about your here and...

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My brothers and sisters had been humiliated;
By the false that none made,
A mere world which were created;
Words were sharp like a blade.

Our beliefs are beautiful;
No...

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We were accustomed to read one thousand 
And one night in Baghdad...
Tonight the glorious city-sky is sad,
It sounded bang! Bang 
Where is my mummy? Where...

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