Muhammad Khalil
Poems in this collection:
Mali to Marley/One Heart. Text Love is Most Great. Text and Audio
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Muhammad Khalil |
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Poems in this collection: |
Mali to Marley/One Heart. Text Love is Most Great. Text and Audio |
Mali to Marley/One Heart. Eaza Jaa'a nasru lahi wa alfath. Wa raaytan-nasa yad khuloona fi deeni illahi afwaja. Musa Mansa... Proud Prince of Mali. Musilman. . . Lion of Islam. Makes his first pilgrimage to Mecca. Sails the Sahara. Braves the waves of the desert. Many will follow... Few will forget it. From Tiznet to Timbuctoo... Taureg/ Mandingo/ Fulani and Songhai... Senehure/Just to name but a few. Wa ruaytan-nas ayad khuloon naffi deeni illahi afwaja. Hand written books in Wolof and Fante Hausa, and Ashante... Saved in kufic script calligraphic Arabic. Prolific, Kuranic, linguistic granite. Sealed with a symbol from ancient Afrika, Star and crescent, Osrane Ne Nsroma. Adinkra sign of steadfastness and Fidelity. Worn by the halamkhats of Ancient Mali. Centre of learning. City of yearning. Knowledge burning beyond the timelocked constraints of style and fashion. Knowledge everlasting. Fassbhi bihamdi rabbika wastagfiruh. Passed on from Bilal (May Allah be pleased with him). Gnouan Sufis... Tales of houris and dJinn. Helping the Mahdis of Somali and Sudan Liberate a subdued land. Call to prayer their only wealth... but enough to help the struggle win. Egypt to Senegal Morocco to Mozambique. From Cape to Caiwa Until that Blessed Iwa. The howling wind of Wassulou/Joujouka helps the Spirits of our Ancestors speak. Music taken in chains by those who came... words that reclaim the joy and ease the pain. The rhythm of a healing prayer. The language of a dragon slayer. Innahu kana tauwaba. Saddak Allaho Azim. Love is Most Great. Argue The Way of the Friend... In the most excellent manner... Mo Khalil's Sufic ettiquette... With English grammar... Let this rap ring out like a Blacksmith's hammer... in a style that could use a little Jazz piano. Its in the nature of my natural-born urban-Jazz Roots. As I temper my nature my Soul bears fruit. They call it knowledge... Understanding And Timeless Truth. A daily ritual ? Yeah ! You could call it habitual. I call it merely doing what comes natural. Celebrating life ! Whirling sometimes like a Dervish ! Dancing with remembrance. Consider it a Service Gospel-Blues spreading news of the Truth of our youth. Pumping bass-lines in the basement. Singing lovesongs on the roof. Spiritual at conception like the power of the Sun. A mystic Love that links Creation From where all creation comes. Some call it the Presence second only to none, Some call it... The One and Only One. So with control of emotion... And clarity of mind May Allah allow this Rap to unwind. Let the Rap adapt the Book... So that a point is made People weren't created to be treated as slaves. And at the end of the day The best thing I can say is Allahu Akbar ! Love is most Great ! Cos... Love is the Power that links Creation. Love is the Power that Unites Nations. From the L... to the O... to the V... To the everloving E... Lifes Origins Vibrate Eternally... With Love. LOVE....... Iniversally Love... Outernationally Love... In the beginning was the Word and the Word was One. Created like the People Sea, Sky and the Land... Co-operation with Nature The Way of Love's Plan... We got the Whole Wide World... In the palm of our hands. Drumbeats create... The Heat to move the feet... Inspired by the mood That moves on the street. Poetry in Motion... Loves' a present from the Giver... Moving with the Natural Flow of Lifes River... Each moan of Discomfort... Each sweet sigh of Pleasure... Speaks of a Bond that Binds us Together. Lets Discuss and Debate our Destiny and Fate... Be-Cause the Caveman Club Will surely cave in under the weight... Of the Silence that sows the seeds that breed the Ignorant Suspicions of Fear and Greed. Put a Right to the Wrong ! Put an End to the Need ! Put your Mind at Rest... And your Soul is Freed ! With control of emotion And clarity of mind May Allah allow this Rap to unwind. Let the Rap adapt the Book So that a point is made... People weren't created to be treated as slaves... And at the end of the day The best thing I can say is Allahu Akbar ! Love is most Great ! World Wielders/Weavers of Words... Dedicate your Designs... Get down with the Deen And Deliver your signs... As recorded in the Message Of most Sacred rhymes. Like a Lantern set to Guide us through the Darkest Times. Minds focused on the Light... there are no limitations. Freedom from oppression And for slaves Liberation ! So the Strong can Defend the Weak... and the Rich the Poor... Deep within your Heart Lies the key to the door.. If Life is for Living... Love is infinitely more... Love is the Sword that puts an End to War. More Power than a Panther... Far Sweeter than Song... Perfume for the Soul Makes the Heart grow Strong. Never altered nor changed Love has always remained From any Angle you check it out One and the same. Full of Mercy and Grace for the Whole Human Race In this World that is running Out of Time and Space... So with control of emotion And clarity of mind May Allah allow this Rap to unwind. Let the Rap adapt the Book So that a point is made... People weren't created to be treated as slaves... And at the end of the day... The best thing Allahu Akbar ! Love is most great ! Cos . . Love is the Power that Links Creation. Love is the Power that Unites Nations. From the L... to the O... to the V... To the everloving E... Lifes Origins Vibrate Eternally.. With Love. LOVE....... Iniversally... Love....... Outernationally... Love....... LOVE is Most Great... Muhammad Khalil Eugene Lange.