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March 27, 2007
Dedicated to Ahmed

by Rami Mahmoud Elsawah

"The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy." (Qu'ran 49:10)


How many times will I have to call them
These Muslim Brothers with busy lives
So I may just feel an ounce of brotherhood
So that my soul does not become dusty and dry.


Distance is no factor for you and I
Our friendship was based on love for Allah
You taught me knowledge and I taught you Birr
And were always in rememberance of the One who is Allah


Tell me how can I really explain to them
How much a brother in Islam can be worth to a man
Would they believe me if I told them
I married you my cousin dhat deen wa jamal (one with both religion & beauty)


Would they not then run and jump
To every corner of the land
To spend some time with a brother who asks
Desiring only from them a reminder, taqwa, and eman


I think ya Ahmed
That if they had felt brotherhood in Islam
They would walk the world with sorrow faces and lonely hearts
For they would feel like eman is slipping uncontrollably out of their hand.


I hope that in the future insha Allah
When 50,000 years will be but a day
We will rejoice that Allah (subhanna wa taala) gave us shade
For being brothers in Islam for only His way.


Abu Musa reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: A believer is like a brick for another believer, the one supporting the other. (Sahih Muslim: Book 032, Number 6257)

Abu Huraira reported that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) had said:
Seven are (the persons) whom Allah would give protection with His Shade on the Day when there would be no shade but that of Him (i. e. on the Day of Judgment, and they are):
a just ruler, a youth who grew up with the worship of Allah; a person whose heart is attached to the mosques; two persons who love and meet each other and depart from each other for the sake of Allah; a man whom a beautiful woman of high rank seduces (for illicit relation), but he (rejects this offer by saying):" I fear Allah" ; a person who gives charity and conceals it (to such an extent) that the right hand does not know what the left has given: and a person who remembered Allah in privacy and his eyes shed tears. (Sahih Muslim: Book 005, Number 2248)


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