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

This is the remnants of a multimedia poetry album which I began about 4 years ago. The entire name was too long to put in the title: sociopoliticoethnoreligiophilosophicoschizo.

I don’t know how far it’ll get here, as my main audience before was a bunch of artistic weirdos of various backgrounds, mostly non-Muslim. I can’t really see “religious” people going for it, and I can’t really see the Muslim community going for it (like in a major way, even though there’s the odd person here and there who likes it), but I also don’t think I can continue to put it out through the indy market, although that’s clearly where it belongs, because I just don’t have the time it takes to build it up through that venue. Plus I’m in Jordan lol. So I figured we’d just release it as a memory of that time and go on from there. We’ll see, it’ll inshallah be IN Production’s second release after the NaseehaMan comic book.

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]