The God = The Nation

The Trinity = The Executive Branch, The Legislative Branch, The Judicial Branch

The Religion = Democracy 

The Bible = The Constitution

The Clergy = The Politicians

The Flock = The People

Blasphemy = Dissent

Apostacy = Treason

Holy War = Political War

Right = Might

I am a slave and have come upon

The days of devotion, one by one

Twenty-nine or thirty, as the crescent counts

I will sacrifice myself if my limbs be sound

My belly will gnaw me

My hands will withhold

My tongue will be silenced

My passions cold

My head will feel

And my heart will think

The Hereafter will be here

And the present shrink

My Lord is One, but I am not

There are millions like me enslaved to God

The toil of today becomes a passing vision

As we return to our Master and the innate Religion

[originally published on IslamicNetwork.com, 2005]