Islam – Skilful White Clouds

21 June 202127 January 2023Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

Poem ☁️ VACANT TOLERANCE

REFRAMING PERSPECTIVES

‘Malicious generalisations about Islam have become the last acceptable form of denigration of foreign culture in the West; what is said about the Muslim mind, or character, or religion, or culture as a whole cannot now be said in mainstream discussion about Africans, Jews, other Orientals, or Asians.’ ~ The Late Edward Said

21 May 202130 October 2022Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

A NEW EID POEM by Khalid AlMahmoud

{. . . To Allâh belongs the command [i.e., decree] before and after. And that day the believers will rejoice. In the victory of Allâh. He gives victory to whom He wills, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful. [It is] the promise of Allâh. Allâh does not fail in His promise, but most of the people do not know.}

(30:04-06)

19 January 202028 January 2023Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

Poem ☁ WORDS LEFT BEHIND

‘Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”‘ ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

29 April 201928 January 2023Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

Poem ☁ TO FALL IN LOVE

A RESILIENT HEART

{And those who BELIEVE are STRONGER in LOVE for ALLÂH} ♡ (002:165)

‘Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.’ ~ Albert Camus

18 March 201828 January 2023Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

Poem ☁ A SILENT PLEA

KILLING OURSELVES SLOWLY

{وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَنفُسَكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ بِكُمْ رَحِيمًا}

{And do not kill yourselves; Indeed, Allâh is to you ever Merciful.}

(04:29)

18 January 201830 October 2022Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

Art ☁ JERUSALEM IS OURS

‘They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians.’ ~ Norman Finkelstein

‘Power in the defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction, which produces action, uncompromising action.’ ~ Malcolm X رحمه الله

16 August 201627 January 2023Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

Poem ☁ THE ONLY TRUTH: THE INNER TRUTH (III)

{It is HE Who created life and death to test which of you is BETTER in Deed}

(67:02)

16 July 201627 January 2023Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

Poem ☁ THE ONLY TRUTH: THE INNER TRUTH (II)

Letting it all go
The unwanted
Embracing his essence
Submitting to THE ONE
With an open heart . . .
Love and Effervescence

16 May 201627 January 2023Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

Poem ☁ THE ONLY TRUTH: THE INNER TRUTH (I)

A blur
In the eyes of many
A vision lost . . . A ghost
Oblivious to most
Obvious only to the few who See
Transparency . . .
Authenticity