{"id":74,"date":"2023-02-23T13:52:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T13:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=74"},"modified":"2023-02-23T13:58:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T13:58:36","slug":"hijabi-free-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Hijabi – Free Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hijabi!<\/span>
\nBinAdam Keedaira.<\/span>
\nBeware!<\/span>
\nCause we can\u2019t see her hair.<\/span>
\nWe can\u2019t see her skin.<\/span>
\nShe\u2019s got something to hide.<\/span>
\nSuspicious !<\/span>
\nWhat\u2019s she got under there?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pull it off!<\/span>
\nTake it off!<\/span>
\nYou\u2019re no different than us.<\/span>
\nYou\u2019re not special, not precious<\/span>
\nLet your radiance collect dust<\/span>
\nCause we\u2019re all rusted<\/span>
\nUnworthy and hell-bound<\/span>
\nStop deluding yourself<\/span>
\nYour cloth is no crown, for a head<\/span>
\nIn which, should reside only lust<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So you\u2019re happy, content<\/span>
\nIn your coverup<\/span>
\nWe hate you for freedom from<\/span>
\nNot needing us<\/span>
\nYou don\u2019t need validation<\/span>
\nFrom the muck and the mire<\/span>
\nAllah\u2019s favor is all you desire<\/span>
\nSo you don\u2019t cast your pearls<\/span>
\nAmongst the swine<\/span>
\nAnd your abandoned devotion<\/span>
\nWill never be mine<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So we hate you<\/span>
\nFor your self-righteous high road<\/span>
\nYour self-proclaimed straight path<\/span>
\nCause you kept your body untold<\/span>
\nWe revile you for your Surat Al Mustaqim<\/span>
\nThe like, thereof, we\u2019ve never seen<\/span>
\nSaid the demon, said the bigot,<\/span>
\nsaid the so-called believer-in-between<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A rock and a hard place<\/span>
\nCan\u2019t decide what\u2019s true, what\u2019s lies<\/span>
\nSociety or a God I\u2019ve never seen<\/span>
\nBut you\u2019ve seen Him<\/span>
\nIn your darkest hour of deep despair<\/span>
\nHe woke you up the next morning<\/span>
\nFrom the night you couldn\u2019t bear<\/span>
\nHe made you distinguish the high road<\/span>
\nFrom the low<\/span>
\nHe made you envious of the pure-hearted<\/span>
\nIn an attempt to make faith grow<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hijabi!<\/span>
\nBeware!<\/span>
\nThose stares and those hateful comments<\/span>
\nJust might expose<\/span>
\nThe weak one lacking faith<\/span>
\nNeeding a place to call home<\/span>
\nSo don\u2019t shrivel in sadness from their<\/span>
\nhateful speech<\/span>
\nShine a smile of radiance their direction<\/span>
\nYour charity, to them, will reach<\/span>
\nYour hijab plants a seed of redemption<\/span>
\nA refuge they may one day beseech<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hijabi! BinAdam Keedaira. Beware! Cause we can\u2019t see her hair. We can\u2019t see her skin. She\u2019s got something to hide. Suspicious ! What\u2019s she got under there?\u00a0 Pull it off! Take it off! You\u2019re no different than us. You\u2019re not special, not precious Let your radiance collect dust Cause we\u2019re all rusted Unworthy and hell-bound … Continue reading “Hijabi – Free Verse”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[3],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-verse"],"authors":[{"term_id":3,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"m-festaaui-ma","display_name":"m.festa@aui.ma","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/65449cb1068226a14ef9126b1a35129494d168d8031b0176a86c009da34bf92c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","avatar_alt":"","avatar_decorative":"","author_category":"","user_url":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma","last_name":"Festa","first_name":"Monica","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}