Posted in listen to this on Apr 2nd, 2007
Why did you leave me? Asked my son
I looked at him and saw the pain
Sitting heavy like a granite slab
On a sad little chest
I wanted to say something but found the words missing
He looked at me and I at him, and still there were no words.
I was the one to look away, to look far [...]
Posted in listen to this on Apr 2nd, 2007
This is Karbala, the same Karbala where some fourteen hundred years ago Hussein fought the last battle of Islam against Yazid. Yazid, hated by Shias and Sunnis alike. It’s the same Karbala where seventy-two companions of Hussein laid their lives down for an ideology, a faith that the last messenger of Allah gave to humanity. [...]
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