This Poet was read in front of about 100 students, Muslims and non Muslims in Michigan State University in Ramadan Dinner on the middle of (2005) Ramadan by Br. Khan or Rap Name Lizarus. Lizarus is one of Detroit rappers attending in MSU. He will be dropping an album like Bomb in the coming months, better check that out.
Ramadan dinner was sponsored by the Muslim Student Association in Michigan State University.
Poet
"A lot of people see that I'm a rapper/ And automatically think of disaster/ Automatically think that I'm after/ Nothing but sinking to the melting pot of America/ To be like everybody else that envelop me/ And then lose track of my own identity/ But I'm a Muslim, just like everybody in front of me/ I don't know what I've become, or what the world has done to me/ But I'm gonna be/ everything America doesn't want me to be/ Because I got poetry growin' in me, and it won't leave me/ See that's why I'm rappin,' not for the fashion, but passion/ Not for the cash but for action/ What's a million dollars in this world/ Compared to usin' words and the power to be heard/ To be respected for your art and what's ejected from your heart/ I don't want to conform, I want to reform, and use this as a tool/ To break the misconception of me and you/ As me and you sit here in Ramadan/ There's people out there that equate us with the Taliban/ Like we're Osama or Saddam/ We say salaam, they think we're communicatin' to drop a bomb/ We make duah, they think we're tryin' to send some harm/ But I got photon bombs in each of my forearms waitin' to prove 'em wrong/ Because Islam is a religion of peace/ And peace be onto he who brought this religion to me/ To get me to uplift mentally, physically, and spiritually/ And to say Inshallah before everything I ever dream/ Because people are out there starvin' and dyin'/ In this month of fasting, we need to start realizin/ What we actually have, to stand tall, before you walk you got to crawl/ And never fall to the grip of alcohol/ Society is like one big headache, but we don't got the Tylenol/ With Islam, you feel like you can walk on walls/ But I'm not tryin' to preach ya/ I'm not tryin' to reach ya/ As a speaker, as a teacher, but as a believer/ askin you how the development of a fetus/ is writtin in the Quran by an illiterate man 1400 years ago in Medina/ With no microscope he wrote, his message got spread to the world and divided like amoebas/ But in these classes, look at what they teach us/ They tell us our relgion is a fake/ Tyrin' to disintegrate our faith/ by sayin' we came from a ape/ With no sign or a trace between a human and a ape as if it just magically got erased/ But tryin' to disprove Islam is nothing but a waste/ Because look at us, we're all just one race/ Islam says we're all brothers, regradless of color/ Whether you're white, black, Pakistani, Benghali, or other/ Cause we all came from the same father and mother/ Adam and Eve, why can't we see/ The strength of a human being and what he can be/ To look in these eyes, and see what they see/ Sometimes I feel like a slave, that'll never be free/ But no matter what I achieve, or what peak that I reach/ I must get on my knees/ and ask Allah... for the power to make me bolder/ colder/ so that I may hold this weight on my shoulders/ because I know the/ truth... There is only One God... ALLAH, and Muhammad, Peace Be Upon Him, is his final messenger."
by LAZARUS
Let me know what you think of this poet alright?
RaskaYare
Muqdishu City
