Hijabi!
BinAdam Keedaira.
Beware!
Cause we can’t see her hair.
We can’t see her skin.
She’s got something to hide.
Suspicious !
What’s she got under there?
Pull it off!
Take it off!
You’re no different than us.
You’re not special, not precious
Let your radiance collect dust
Cause we’re all rusted
Unworthy and hell-bound
Stop deluding yourself
Your cloth is no crown, for a head
In which, should reside only lust
So you’re happy, content
In your coverup
We hate you for freedom from
Not needing us
You don’t need validation
From the muck and the mire
Allah’s favor is all you desire
So you don’t cast your pearls
Amongst the swine
And your abandoned devotion
Will never be mine
So we hate you
For your self-righteous high road
Your self-proclaimed straight path
Cause you kept your body untold
We revile you for your Surat Al Mustaqim
The like, thereof, we’ve never seen
Said the demon, said the bigot,
said the so-called believer-in-between
A rock and a hard place
Can’t decide what’s true, what’s lies
Society or a God I’ve never seen
But you’ve seen Him
In your darkest hour of deep despair
He woke you up the next morning
From the night you couldn’t bear
He made you distinguish the high road
From the low
He made you envious of the pure-hearted
In an attempt to make faith grow
Hijabi!
Beware!
Those stares and those hateful comments
Just might expose
The weak one lacking faith
Needing a place to call home
So don’t shrivel in sadness from their
hateful speech
Shine a smile of radiance their direction
Your charity, to them, will reach
Your hijab plants a seed of redemption
A refuge they may one day beseech
