We are accused of terrorism:if we defended rose and womanand the mighty the blueness of sky...
A dominion... nothing left therein...
No water, no air...
No tent, no camel,and not even dark Arabica coffee!!
We are accused of terrorism:if we defended with gutsthe hair of Balqisand the lips of Maysunif we defended Hind, and
Lubna and the stream of Kohlcoming down from their lashes like the verses of revelation.
You will not find with mea secret poemor a secret logosor books I put behind doors.
I do not even have one poemwalking down the street, wearing veil.
We are accused of terrorism:if we wrote about the ruins of a homelandtorn, weak...a homeland with no addressand an nation with no names I seek the remnants of a homelandnone of its grand poems is leftexcept the bemoans of Khansa.
I seek a dominion in whose horizonsno freedom can be foundred... blue or yellow.
A homeland forbidding us from bying a newspaperor listening to the news.
A dominion wherein birds are forbiddenfrom chirping.
A homeland wherein, out of terror [ru`b],its writers got accustomed to write aboutnothing.
A homeland, in the likeness of poetry in our lands:
It is vain talk,no
Ajam, with a crooked face and tongue:
No
No
No relation with people's worrymother earthand the crisis of man.
A dominion...going to peace talkswith no honorno shoe.
A homeland, men peed in their pans...women are those left to defend honor.
Salt in our
Salt in our
Salt in our
Can the self carry such dryness?
An inheritance we got from the barren Qahtan?
In our nation, no Mu`awiya, and no Abu
No one is left to say "NO"and face the quittersthey gave up our houses, our bread and our [olive] oil.
They transformed our bright history into a mediocre store.
In our lives, no poem is left,since we lost our chastity in the bed of the Sultan.
They got accustomed to us, the humbled.
What is left to manwhen all that remainsis disgrace.
I seek in the books of
Ussamah ibn
Uqba ibn Nafi`Omar, and Hamzahand Khalid, driving his flocks conquering the Shem.
I seek a Mu`tasim
Saving women from the cruelty of rapeand the fire.
I seek latter days
All I can see is frightened
Scared for their own souls, fromthe sultanship of mice.
Is this an overwhelming national blindness?
Are we blind to colors?
We are accused of
If we refuse to diewith Israel's bulldozerstearing our landtearing our historytearing our Evangeliumtearing our Korantearing the graves of our
If this was our sin,then, lo, how beautiful terrorism is?
We are accused of terrorismif we refused to be effacedby the hands of the Mogul,
Jews and Barbariansif we throw a stoneat the glass of the the Security Councilafter the Ceasar of Ceasars got a hold of it.
We are accused of terrorismif we refuse to negociate with the wolfand shake the hand with a
Against the cultures of the peopleswith no
Against the civilizations of the civilizedwith no
Americaa mighty edificewith no walls!
We are accused of terrorism:if we refused an
America becamethe foolish, the rich, the mightytranslated, swornin Hebrew.
We are accused of terrorism:if we throw a roseto Jerusalemto al-Khalilto Ghazzato an-Nasirahif we took bread and waterto beleaguered Troy.
We are accused of terrorism:if we raised our voices againstthe regionalists of our leaders.
All changed their rides:from Unioniststo Brokers.
If we committed the heinous crime of cultureif we revolted against the orders of the grand caliphand the seat of the
If we read jurisprudence or
If we recalled Godand read verse al-Fat-h[that Chapter of Conquest].
If we listened to the Friday sermonthen we are well-established in the art of
We are accused of terrorismif we defended landand the honor of dustif we revolted against the rape of peopleand our rapeif we defended the last palm trees in our desertthe last stars in our skythe last syllabi of our namesthe last milk in our mothers' bosomsif this was our sinhow beautiful is terrorism.
I am with terrorismif it is able to save mefrom the immigrants from
Romania,
Hungaria, and
They settled in Palestineset foot on our shouldersto steal the minarets of al-Qudsand the door of Aqsato steal the arabesquesand the domes.
I am with terrorismif it will free the Messiah,
Jesus of Nazareth,and the virgin,
Meriam Betulaand the holy cityfrom the ambassadors of death and
The nationalist street was ferventlike a wild horse.
The rivers were abundant with the spirit of youth.
But after Olso,we no longer had teeth:we are now a blind and lost people.
We are accused of terrorism:if we defended with full-forceour poetic heritageour national wallour rosy civilizationthe culture of flutes in our mountainsand the mirrors displaying blackened eyes.
We are accused of terrorism:if we defended what we
El azure of our seaand the aroma of inkif we defended the freedom of the wordand the holiness of booksI am with terrorismif it is able to free a peoplefrom tyrants and tyrannyif it is able to save man from the cruelty of manto return lemon, olive tree, and bird to the South of Lebanonand the smile back to GolanI am with terrorismif it will save mefrom the Caesar of Yehudaand the Caesar of RomeI am with terrorismas long as this new world orderis sharedbetween America and Israelhalf-halfI am with terrorismwith all my poetrywith all my wordsand all my teethas long as this new worldis in the hands of a butcher.
I am with terrorismif the U.
S.
Senateenacts judgmentdecrees reward and punishmentI am with Irhab [terrorism]as long this new world orderhates the smell of A`rab.
I am with terrorismas long as the new world orderwants to slaughter my send them to dogs.
For all this I raise my voice high: I am with terrorism I am with terrorism I am with terrorism...
