JIHAD

 

By Glenn Hall

© July 21, 2007

 

 

Always learning, but never perceiving

God’s intent with man;

Always believing, and never doubting

doctrines from man’s hand

 

“Do not taste; do not touch”

We hear it from our youth;

“The teaching is already established;

don’t meddle with our truth”

 

But, “What is truth?” a king once asked

of Him who knew the key

“I see a myriad of cults,

but none speaks truth to me”

 

“Love your neighbor as yourself,

and God with all your heart;

If you will only do this thing

Then you have done your part”

 

My flesh is weak; my lusts are strong

Even this I can’t obey

What Jesus made to sound so simple

reveals my heart astray

 

Now, two thousand years from then,

an age has passed away

We find ourselves no nearer truth

than the first who walked this way

 

Two thousand years of greed and lust

two millennia of shame

A church that tortured “heretics”

that wouldn’t play her game

 

Western nations they call “Christian,”

but use that name in vain,

create abominations

for money and for fame

 

 

So now a specter rises East

who shouts in Allah’s name,

“You Christian infidels

will die in blood and shame;

 

“You’ve cursed your God in riotous living;

you’ve stolen what’s not yours;

you’ve idolized your nations

and turned your daughters into whores;

 

“You suffer every illness known

and more invented by your greed;

you pollute your very ground

with genetically altered seed;

 

“Your stench rises to the end of earth;

our nostrils burn enflamed

from acrid sulfur powder

dropped on us from your planes;

 

“Your time is drawing closer;

your end is now at hand;

the battle lines are drawn

in sand upon your land.”

 

 

“Wait!” the Christian prophet shouts,

“You have unclean hands yourself;

by what right do you stand judging

these men that preach God’s Hell?”

 

 

The Muslim laughs; his face is scorn;

he fears neither death nor hell;

he raises high his spectral voice

and begins anew to tell,

 

“Have you never read your prophets

who pronounce the Day of Wrath?

Have you never understood

the present and the past?

 

“You condemn the innocent to hell

while you yourselves walk free

to indulge in every lust of man

which in your minds you see

 

“You always fail to forgive,

though Jesus stressed mercy,

saying, “Forgive your foe,

or I forgive not thee!”

 

The prophet cries again, in shame,

“Muslim brother, now I see;

God has raised you up

to judge hypocrisy.

 

“It’s not that you or I are right

in all our works or play;

God consigned this world to sin

that all would disobey

 

“so that we as one grown man would bow

to Jesus Christ and say,

`In Adam we all, yes ALL, have died,

but in Christ will rise one day.”