Jihad

Birthed between twilight and dawn, two battles delicately woven,
A bit of flesh and an ancient soul, war does his will as his will be chosen.

Proud hearts circulating whispers of nephilim, dim legends fates recalled.
From times long past, when the world was young, and mortal men were so very small.

The Sepulchre powers on vulgar display, angry eyes aware.
Innocence soothed the searching evil, unable to abide the innocent stare.

Fragile souls left untouched, dark one's sentence carved in flesh,
Just and true vengance hath come, the balance of life again refreshed.

Opaque and dying, life's quest everlasting, refusing rest. I am the Lion of the East and the Devil of the West.

الجهاد

ولادة بين الشفق ومعارك الفجر المنسوجة بعناية،
هناك القليل من اللحم وروح القديم والحرب هو خلق الرجل لا إرادة الإله الذي أيضا أن يتم اختيار بالنسبة له.
همسات تعميم قلوب فخور الأساطير الطغاة الذكور مصائر قاتمة.
من بعيد عندما كان العالم الشباب والقتلى هم من الرجال حتى ولو كانت صغيرة جدا.
صلاحيات القبر على العرض المبتذلة عيون غاضبة على علم بها.
تجد الهدوء البراءة من الشر غير قادر على النبات أو التحديق الأبرياء.
ترك النفوس الهشة يمسها جملة واحدة في الظلام منحوتة في الجسد
هاث الانتقام يأتي عادل وصحيح أن الحياة ت™دهر مرة أخرى.
وفاة غامضة والسعي تسعى الحياة الأبدية ورفض بقية أنا أسد الشرق والغرب من الشيطان

Author's Note

Reviews

[Imogean Tweetie]

Since the wars in the Middle East began, my understanding of Jihad was very distorted due to my Western Culture upbringing and my lack of knowledge. So one day I began to read about the Quran, Christianity and all of the differences of the two religions. I fond in my studies that Jihad did not mean bombing innocents, had nothing to do with the distortion that has become of the word Jihad in Western culture. It means to struggle, an that struggle is typically an inner spiritual struggle. Jihad can manifest into a physical struggle but from what read it had nothing to do with war between countries but a war with physical sin, the manifestation of the our human desires to do sinful outward acts with our bodies. To fight sexual urges and physically NOT participate in such behavior could be an example of a physical Jihad. It represents the spiritual struggle manifesting outwardly into the physical realm. Most Americans do not know the history of Christendom and their own religion et alone the Muslim religion pr it's correlation to Christianity in the past. Allah simply means God in Arabic. It is a simple translation of the word. Muhammed is not Allah, and he himself did just write the Quran, it was the Archangel who cam to Muhammed and gave him the words to write. My point here is that I know what Jihad is and means and in truth the word itself has been distorted and so very misunderstood.

I understood this writing, not many Americans will. Such a shame… It is my belief that people are fighting over the same God. The is only ONE Holy deity. Period.

[Sami Khalil]

I write poetry in English as well as Arabic. The English is very good but the Arabic has some mistakes or conveyance of thoughts( please don't ask me to fix)
Of course many people don't undertstand that Jihad means self ( inner)struggle and not holy wars like the media portrays it...
A powerful write...Thank you for sharing...:)..................

[Raymond Federle]

Yes google translate does NOT do a very good job. I hope no one takes offense but the translation is interesting. I re-translated from Arabic back to English and see the mistakes. I do not know how to correct them either. I am finding that it is easier to learn to speak some Arabic than to read. The right to left is confusing enough but I think the grammar is to complex for me. Thank you Sami! :)

[Sami Khalil]

You are right. No offense at all. Google translate does not do good job...But it is ok...:)..............

[Raymond Federle]

I went back over the translation and made it a little more clear and clean I think. It still come off nicely in English.. different but nicely.

[Sami Khalil]

Very good...:)...................

[sonnie ibadah]

"..Proud hearts circulating whispers of nephilim,
dim legends fates recalled.
From times long past, when the world was
young, and mortal men were so very small...."
nice work ray...!

[Raymond Federle]

thank you sonnie

[FlatLineBeauty]

This was very enjoyable and interesting. The background music was lovely to listen to while reading. xo Winter