As If We Lack Common Sense! Poem by Yussuf Muktar

O' Muslims; O' faithfuls; O' people of Mandera County,
Former dwelling with secure and well content
Whose provisions did come in abundance from every place
Through our filthy hands now turns ghost and gloom
In a blurred identity; why ungratefully kill one another?
Denying the favours of the All-hearing, All-seeing Creator?
The wrath, that which our tongues put forth falsely,
To taste the extreme of famine and fear; is that our goal?
Yet, like animals, we fight as if we lack common sense!

Where in the scriptures is this deadly vice justified?
Did we forget sin-less angels on our shoulders
Whose duty is all records, every day, every step we take
The Day when every person will come up pleading for self
With what sin had we killed? A question answer-less indeed!
Today we live well-less; tensions of tomorrow, God forbid!
Submission to the Almighty, before the torment comes upon us,
The sole solution; open to all living souls before we fall
Yet, like animals, we fight as if we lack common sense!

Wasn't it our culture to spread our blessed greetings;
From heaven through which love could have been obtained?
Yet our filthy hearts are full of scorns and hatred, lest we forget,
Against the very brothers in blood and same in religion
With whom we could strive with wealth and lives
To raise the only flag, recognized in heaven, to the peak
Clean hearts, condition to repentance, for the Almighty is clean
Holding fast, together all to His rope, in Him truly if we believe
Yet, like animals, we fight as if we lack common sense!