Category: Rabab Maher
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Poem: GRACEFUL ROSEBAY ~ A TRIBUTE TO GAZA
‘You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.’ ~ William Wilberforce
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Poem: BLEEDINGS OF THE PRESENT
‘History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.’ ~ The Late Howard Zinn
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Poem: VACANT TOLERANCE
‘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
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Poem: WORDS LEFT BEHIND
‘Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”‘ ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
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Poem: THE SLEEPING POET AWAKENS
‘Truly in the heart there is a void that cannot be removed except with the company of ALLÂH ﷻ . . .’ ~ Imām Ibnu Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah رضي الله عنه
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Poem: TO FALL IN LOVE
‘Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.’ ~ Albert Camus
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Art: JERUSALEM IS OURS
‘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
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Poem: FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
‘Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.’ ~ Suzy Kassem
Skilful White Clouds (RABAB Maher) 