I stood under an olive tree and wept.
The desert winds cannot dispel my doubts:
“Allah’s people are everywhere.
Why is my land still bleeding?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They say, “Faith is what helps the truth” (5:2).
But my home is walled up.
My children’s toys in ruins.
My father’s olive grove is consumed by flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cords of Allah should be as strong as steel (3:103).
Why are the palms of the Muslims cold?
My tears flow to the Holy Land.
But help is far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Prophet taught us to fight for justice (2:244).
Not with the sword, but with the breast against oppression.
But my cry has traveled through the stars.
Yet no one has taken up this burning scepter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O Allah, the fire of trial has consumed patience (21:35).
Let the hearts of the believers be melted into shields again.
Let the voices of the seventy nations be transformed into one cry:
“In the name of mercy, stop this endless wounding!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I clutch the soil as I clutch the hope that
Waiting for the day – when the Muslims’ feet come in like a tidal wave.
To wash away the traces of the occupiers.
And let the dove of peace rest on the steeple of every mosque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amin, may your name be our shield.
May the star of unity shine through the dawn of Palestine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Palestinian child inquired from his soul, “There are so many countries and people in the Islamic world and no one can help the Palestinians?”<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I stood under an olive tree and wept.The desert winds cannot dispel my doubts:“Allah’s people are everywhere.Why is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15061,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060\/revisions\/15061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}