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Sahar is a Turkish Girl who delivered a powerful poem about the Prophet Muhammad
(The video is in Turkish, with English & Arabic subtitles)
This performance is from the 2008 Al Mahabba Awards

Muslim Salad
By: Aaron Haroon Sellars © 2007
Before Islam I was lost
And after Islam I was lost
Between this and that group
Was I tossed
A bookstore Shaykh
Not even worth a dollar
With do-it-yourself Islam
Who needs a scholar?
Tossed so much
Might as well been a salad
I was quoting Hadeeth
But my wudu was invalid

By Saad Omar
[A free flow of conscious spoken word piece I wrote two years ago..finally took the time to type it out... i added the last three stanzas for a human rights coffee house i performed at...so its a little disjointed]
Sometimes I wanna run not walk,
so I could spend my life quick
Cuz if I had her [...]

Muslim Spoken Word Poet/Rapper/Activist Amir Sulaiman’s first mainstream CD, Like a Thief in the Night is being released on May 15 insha’Allah . (It is available for Pre-Order Now @ Amazon.com)
Here is the track 14 off the CD, featuring Muslim actor/rapper Mos Def:
Amir Sulaiman ft. Mos Def - When I Die
[Audio [...]

Normal is Crazy
By: Ghazali (Saad Omar)
The blind parade is marching, hollow feet are stomping, pushing through the door
Being normal isn’t normal, crazy’s not so crazy, anymore
Politicians talking, twisted tongues are mopping, wiping dirty floors
Being normal isn’t normal, crazy’s not so crazy, anymore
Movie star endorsements, zombies driving Porsches, fighting in line at stores
Being normal isn’t [...]

Here is Sister Nomadic Nafs’s response to Brother Saad Omar’s Poem “Dear Wife“:
NOTE: Brother Saad’s Original “Dear Wife” is italicized & blue; and the rebuttal poem by Sister Nomadic Nafs is in normal text & purple.
When you make plans, make plans for two
I’m your wedding planner; I got a plan for you
But Snow White, don’t [...]

Source: Islam…Is Our Religion!
Mashallah, an amazing 9-year-old Muslimah poet, Reem, has recently written and recorded the following poem. Enjoy! Please leave feedback on her blog here &here.
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
arabic:
Jannatu Al-Firdowsi, Jannatul Firdowsi,
Khairu Ahadim mina Al-Jannati,
Alayhan nabiyyu salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam,
Was Sahabatu radiya Allahu anhum,
Al-Wasatu Al-Jannati feeha amalun jayyid,
feeha katheerum [...]

Circus Man
 
By Ghazali (Saad Omar)
 
Written to the Melody of Keane’s “Somewhere Only We Know”: For Zafar’s solo album
 
(Piano intro-Piano stops before singing begins and light violin accompanies first stanza)
 
A Circus man, life on the road
His heart holds stories that will never be told
He carves his tales, in the harshest cold
When the curtain falls he [...]

Superficial Religion By Ghazali (Saad Omar) The song was written to resemble the melody of the body and bridge of Elton John’s “Sacrifice.” The song will be accompanied by drums and piano. I can’t wait till one of the singers I’m approaching takes up this project because the melody and piano [...]

The Following a Rap/Poem written by Ghazali (Saad Omar) Enjoy
I’ve recorded a very rough version on my computer just so you can get an idea of the flow and I’ve also added audio for the My Life rap that was featured a few days ago…
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
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This is by far the most personal piece i have ever made public…this version has a few slight edits that were not in Haseeb’s version from earlier today

(I wrote the whole thing in about 10-15 minutes without stopping to even more a second to “write a deep rhyme,” or even look at what I wrote. [...]