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      SHADES

      OF

      ISLAM

      SHADES

      OF

      ISLAM

      POEMS FOR A

      NEW CENTURY

      RAFEY HABIB

      First published in England by Kube Publishing Ltd,

      Markfield Conference Centre

      Ratby Lane, Markfield,

      Leicestershire LE67 9SY

      United Kingdom

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      Website: www.kubepublishing.com Email: [email protected]

      © Rafey Habib, 2010

      All rights reserved

      The right of Rafey Habib to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

      A Cataloguing-in-Publication data record is available from the British Library.

      ISBN 978-1-84774-021-2 paperback eISBN 978-1-84774-099-1

      Cover Design: Irfan Adrian Day Typesetting: Nasir Cadir

      DEDICATION

      This book is dedicated to those Muslims, Jews and Christians who are striving to find a common path toward peace, mutual understanding and humanity.

      CONTENTS

       Azan

       The Garden and the Fire

       Time

       Journey

       Peace

       Mosque

       Cancer Cell

       Tsunami I

       Tsunami II

       II. ON BEING A MUSLIM

       Muslim Manifesto

       Partition

       Prayer

       Vacancy

       Friday Sermon

       Weight

       Phantom Ship

       Hijab

       New Generation

       To a Secular Cynic

       III. LOVE?

       Marriage

       To a Muslim Girl

       Muslim Love

       Honorable Death

       Lot of Sin

       Paradise

       To Yasmeen, after Nine Years

       Ode to Yasmeen

       To My Son Hishaam,

       To My Son Hasan, Sleeping

       Repression

       For You (Yes, You)

       Mother

       A Letter to my Father

       Sealed Book

       A Muslim Man to a Woman

       Childhood Sweetheart

       IV. GHAZALS, SONNETS AND RUBAIYAT

       Ghazal I

       Avenues

       Far

       Flood

       Rubaiyat

       Ghazal II

       Ghazal III

       V. POLITICAL MUSING

       To a Suicide Bomber

       Suicide

       A Poem for Neda

       A Prayer for Gaza

       A Prayer for Zia Rahman

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