Faces blown, invaded homes/ infants moan with broken bones.
... Numbers cant show how the casulties grow/ the loss is high when soldiers become foes.
The civilian deaths console the regime in control/ graves become homes for the departed souls.
Bodies gashed with bullet holes/ backs are lashed by ruthless patrols.
Fighters fighting with fading tones/ martyr’s waiting to read their scrolls. Judgement is truly for Allah alone/ if only these dictators would truly know.
The believers know what they truly seek/engaged in prayers that are truly deep.
Tongues are being slit so its harder to speak/but hearts still oppose the oppressor’s blasphemous speech.
So instead of using vocals where the voice cannot reach/I write my prayer in pen and use the ink to preach.
I pray that the brothers and sisters hold on to their creed/
And hopefully succeed to live in a land that is dictatorship free.
Forget the globe and the middle east/what if oppression reached our streets?
What if we had to express repression from hiding under our sheets?
What if the only music we heard were bombs making beats/ and our last prayer ended in permanent sleep?
What if our bloody wounds were just left to bleed/and the tears of lost loved ones covered our feet?
The governments seem to be shattering dreams/ suppressing those, steadfast on their deen.
Murdered are those even inside the womb/Mothers lose hope to see their babies bloom.
Death will overtake these murderers too/ then Allah will say, fa ayna tathhaboon (quran 81:26)
Proclaiming tawheed to wipeout disease/ should be the ummah’s permanent state of belief
And tyrants that have consistently caused the innocent to bleed/
Cannot defeat the victory Muslims are granted in Allah’s decree.
So those who have raped mothers and sisters and men of dignity/
Will be questioned by Allah individually.
While problems rise the race towards rewards has simply begun/
So let us pray for the fatherless sons, and for the motherless ones.
And though the sins are summed/ let us pray that Allah expiates them.
This recession is a lesson for the Muslim ummah/ so let us gain from these losses by implementing the Sunnah.
Those who are struggling to worship Allah alone/ May He grant them Jannatul Firdous as their permanent home.

- Khairul Nual (with courtesy from facebook.com/ammarpoetry)