Still i Rise

[umm.jihad]

Burried in the earth, veiled with the soil, Mohammed (scw)is out of sight but NEVER out of mind.

This poem below is one of my all time faveriote poems. It reminds me of our prophet, especialy considering the falsehood attributed to him today.

its called “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou.


You may write me down in history
With your bitter twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still. Like dust, I’ll rise.

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Islam shall RISE, it shall be revived, the prophet of islams teachings shall rise. he left to many foot prints in our hearts to be forgotton and remembered only as the past.

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[umm.jihad]

Bump this up, come on no one likes this simply beautiful poem ?

[Al-Irhaab]

mashallah sis poem is beautiful but u need to post it in the poetry/nasheed section with the others then people will see it and give it the credits its due :D

[umm.jihad]

LoL! right, my bad, i always do that.

Mods here is your chance to get to work, pls move this to the correct place inshahallah.

[.: Rashid :.]

You missed out half the poem :p

Though I can guess why. :)

When i first read it I thought it was some sort of feministicismish poem. Then I realised Maya Angelou is black and it was about racism etc. Full poem:


You May write me down in history
With your bitter twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping up my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops
Weakened by my souldful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still like air I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamands
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wonderously clear
I rise
Being the gifts that my ancestors gave
I am the dream and the hope of the slave
I rise
I rise
I rise


Now see why i thought it was feministic? We had to do this poem for English GCSE. The discussion afterwards was soo typical :rolleyes: All the extreme white-rightists decided that the poem was racist to white people :rolleyes:

-Rashid

[.: Anna :.]

Yeh I used 2 b into this stuff lol
neway I shall move it 4 u

[TinyTerror]

Assalmualikum

I used to LOVE Maya Angelou's work once upon a time and had all her books :rolleyes: but i just don't find her particularly inspiring anymore.

The bit that you posted Mashallah was truly beautiful. Pity bout the rest lol :rolleyes:

Wa Alaikumassalam

[umm.jihad]

lol tiny, there was a reason why i posted the parts i chose :_)
thanks for posting the full version R.

[TinyTerror]

Assalamualaikum

lol tiny, there was a reason why i posted the parts i chose :_)
thanks for posting the full version R.

lol i find myself doing that (picking out bits that can be related to islam) especially with those 'shirky' love poems that go on about not being able to live or breathe without so and so :rolleyes:
I always read them as though they speak to Allah:D

Wa Alaikumassalam

[marzipan]

Assalamualaikum

lol i find myself doing that (picking out bits that can be related to islam) especially with those 'shirky' love poems that go on about not being able to live or breathe without so and so :rolleyes:
I always read them as though they speak to Allah:D

Wa Alaikumassalam

P@ki qawallis do that. They say that the love wine or a person the singer can't live without is a metaphor for the love of Allah (swt) :confused:

[TinyTerror]

:) Assalamualaikum

P@ki qawallis do that. They say that the love wine or a person the singer can't live without is a metaphor for the love of Allah (swt) :confused:

:rotfl: i've been compared to many things but a pakistani qawalli hasn't ever been one of them ;)

lol only joking. I don't agree with speaking of Allah metaphorically. If you mean Allah then say Allah. Seems blasphemous to me. Allahu Alim.

I won't even read such poems because regardless of a person claiming it's metaphorical as far as i'm concerned it's shirk. Would these same people read "wine wine wine" when doing dhikr? Aouthubillah

The love poems i was referring to are ones that are ambigous for example they will speak of a love so strong that without it they can't breathe or live however no specific name, person or object is mentioned. I have no interest as to who the poet may or may not be talking about as for me such a love is only for Allah thus i will read it as such.
:)

Wa Alaikumassalam

[umm.jihad]

LoL!! tiny i feel u on that, no doubt such a love is only for allah.

You know what gets on my nerves ? bollywood, back in the day i use to watch that when ever my friends rented the latest one. i wont lie, i was suckered into liking some. but never understood why they had to kill the movie by breaking into song during the best part!

funny, am told thats what bollywood is all about, if thats true, then Umm J aint about bollywood.

i remember this one movie, staring sharukhan and kajol, (4get which one)
lool this is hilarious, get this, when he 1st see's her, u know the metaphor (her beauty blew me away ??)

well mr khan took it one step further, his on a flight of stairs, and so to demonstrate the "true beauty of that metaphor" he pretends to have missed a step, thus indicating her beauty blew him away.

walahi i was cracking up, my reaction was 'aww hell no' 'is he serious'

in another movie his running thru snow some where in new zealand, singing how much he is in love, on a mountain wearing a vest ?? :rolleyes:

come real!

[Arsalan]

and i thought this was gonna be some 2 Pac lyrics :(

[umm.jihad]

LoL!! i'm laughing at the fact that you look disapointed!