Message of Concern

QUR’AN AL’IMRAN, 3:64

64 “Say: ‘O People of the Book! come to common terms as between us and you: That we worship none but Allah; that we associate no partners with him; that we erect not, from among ourselves, Lords and patrons other than Allah.’ If then they turn back, say ye: ‘Bear witness that we (at least) are Muslims (bowing to Allah's Will).’”

Exodus 20, 4-5

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,…” English Standard Version

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I sit in church yet
I don’t understand
why we pray to
a Caucasian man?

His hair is blond
his eyes are blue
Daddy, he doesn’t
look like you.

They say he died
upon a cross
then why is it
I feel so loss.

They have his picture
on every wall
it makes me feel
so very small.

They say his name is
Jesus you see
but he doesn’t even
look like me.

Now I know why
I feel so low
he looks like
the slave masters
of long ago. Sabreen (Shabazz) Adeeba