That although we are named muslims
We try as hard as we can to follow the non
Is it because he is not with us
That what he says is of no value
As the words don’t come from his mouth
Not the mouth that we see
Is it because he is not with us
That the hadeeth conveyed
Seems to be just some words of wisdom
We could choose to use or to leave as we like
Is it because he is not with us
That so easily words from our mouth
Are poured
Saying “that was then and this is now”
Imagine if he was here, right now
And we are doing what we are doing
What’s he going to say?
What is he going to say
When he sees us lifting the fork with our left hands
Putting food into our mouths
Without saying basmallah
What is he going to say
When he hears the harsh words coming from our mouths
When he sees how we buy and sell
When he observes the way we treat our guests
What is he going to say
When he finds out how Muslim women are treated (by muslim men)
How Muslim children are taught (by muslim parents)
How the elderly are neglected
How Muslim men are forced to transgress
What is he going to say
When after all the years he spent teaching the right way
The way to keep the world in harmony and peace
We choose to astray
What is he going to say
When a brother leaves his house
Without saying salam
And instead just slams the door in the face of his other brothers
What is he going to say
When brothers don’t pray together
Don’t go to the mosques together
But rather to the video game centre
What is he going to say
When sisters don’t wear the higab
Because it’s not the trend today
What is he going to say
When brothers and sisters chat freely away
Using all the means that they can
SMS, YM, MSN
And say pooh! It’s just an innocent one
Do we really care
What Rasulullah has to say
‘Cause if we do
We’d have cared to all the words he had already said
We’d have tried
As hard as we can
To imagine that both his soul and body are here
As we listen to the guidance
As we read the hadeeth
As we go through history
To follow every single step
And turn out like Abu Bakr
And Omar
And Ali
And Othman
Just tell me what would have been his reaction
When he finds you and me (we are doctors, supposedly)
In front of the tv
While the ummah
Laying sick on her death bed
Waiting for the doctor, who…
Is in front of the tv
Finding out that his ummah
The ummah he cried for just before his last breathe
Are paying for the guns killing their fellow muslims
Finding out that his ummah
After the toil and soil he went through
To make sure Islam reaches them
Sits around watching movies
And liking them
Finding out that his ummah
After the fall of the khilafah
Made no effort to bring islam back
Is it because he is not with us,
We decided that we could recreate Islam
Directly or indirectly we do it
By leaving a few of what he had said and done
Saying it’s not relevant, not just now
We take the prayers, the fasting, the haj
And sometimes, when we feel like it,
We take the zakah
When it comes to muamalah
The Jews we go to
The same goes with entertainment
The tics that we do
Even the way we talk
The dressing and style
The food that we eat
The places we hang out
The values that we look upon
The people we idolize
I guess it is because he is not with us
He is not with us,
So we do as we like
But Allah told us in His Book
And Muhammad is not just but a messenger
And before him messengers had been sent
Is it that when he dies, you turn back from the path
And who ever turns his back will never hurt Allah even a bit
So does it differs
That he is
Or is not here?
