That Here Our Criminals Aversion is Islam
Why is this tell me
That here in Australia
There is more fear
Of Islamic terrorism
Among the criminal quarter
Than there is among those of us
Who live law abidingly
And why perhaps did we
All want for Dr Haneef
To be rapidly acquitted
Rather than spend time in
An Australian
Prison
But perhaps even more strikingly
Why is it that between
Modern urban black youths
There is a threat traded in
Against every who converted
Into Islam
As a black power consciousness
And of those of us
Whom have experienced such
Threats against us
It is that
If you even once
In the slightest
So much as notice
Any persons sins
And are not holding down by your own witness to Allah
And of your own mind to your own conscience
If noticing that you might have known
A better route though
And had not trod it
But in regret want that
Your mind can swallow that fact
In Allah and continue
But if any other person might notice of you
Such mindfullness
Why was it that
There has been no protection of fact
From the Ummah for such young persons
When the criminals who trade
In such secrets of the grave
Were selling the threat of
“You Were a Muslim”
As though if we notice
That we may have been in sin
That we are no longer
In Islam
Allowed to want to be a Muslim
But when while I
In maturity can find
Such threats are only of my own susceptibility of mind
To crime
But as an Aborigine
Not such a problem really
Just that it is a cockroach whose words need we not heed
And which my brain did by accident feed
And which have been traced
To an original wrong use of sihr to trick
Of this day all found out
Was that
The words
“Her” and
the “Ummah”
Need be kept seperate
From “was it” “it was”
And “one week”
Which was that they tried to trick
Myself that this day
Might be a profitable replay
Upon last week
In a seven dollars and seventy cents
Train ticket
Never bought
Is their defeat
So tell me
Why is this
That here in Australia
There is more fear
Of Islamic terrorism
Among the criminal quarter
Than there is among those of us
Who live law abidingly
Or is it rather that
If we
Believe that in law are we
Well we might not want of
To know in all certainty
Of that shirk forced upon us through money
Which has a kafr of which it shirks to do
About
That
What have we left
If not that the criminals
Must be made bereft
Of what they knew about
And must we
Be rather questioning
Why it is that
In another social context
Islam is yet attractive
To the criminal set
Without any compulsion
Of social worth in
So it must be
That the reason in me
For having had to seem in criminality
Was that the criminals were winning
Such that it has been
Unsafe for me
To be a Muslim in the open
That the criminals
Must be made bereft
Of what they knew about Islam
In which they believed it to be
Their own advantage
Not accessible
To those of us
Who are not criminals
Since we might ever be certain
That of Islam
Is the test
