THOSE MISGUIDED MEN!
You may say your prayers ten times a day,
And yell out over the microphone to let
it be known,
Your praying act as you perform!
But if our daily acts and deeds,
Do not conform to our thoughts of prayer,
We become big hypocrites;
To perform good deeds one must dare!
God is the embodiment of kindness and
love,
He did not advocate killing for His sake!
I pity all those misguided folks,
Those godless men who are fraud and fake!
For only cowards stab people behind their
back,
They lack courage and the face!
Like rats they hide in burrowed holes,
To their religion and race a big disgrace!
Through acts of kindness and loving deeds,
One can win the entire human race!
Acts of terror is self-defeating,
It can never earn His favour or His grace!
Read the Granth, the Bible and the Koran,
O you misled and misguided lot;
For in serving mankind, one truly serves
GOD!
-Raj Nandy
New Delhi
23 May 08
(Earlier I had written on similar subjects; -
'A Dirge for Fanatics' & 'Frenzy of Fanaticism')
We achieved our freedom on the Mahatma Ganghiji’s theory of non violence… religion if molded according on the selfish ends it is no religion… it’s high time…we get these hackneyed shocks out of nowhere, we condemn, the media highlights the issue, ...all forgotten after few days, but those who suffer.. Their complete life is devastated for no fault of their own… thank you for writing on this issue..we need not forget this easily and should continue to make people aware… Abha
Let me quote from Martin Luther King, Jr - here 'Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” In a wider sense if you probe Yes... those 'Missiles' Ultimate reason for the birth of Those misguided men. Nicely written. Thank you.
This is truly a wonderful creation of your mind. Great write and hope this will awake the fanatic idealism of our misguided brothers, the terrorist, to examine their ways and their conscience. I have written also a poem entitled Terrorism: war of today, Terrorist; Beware and Terrorist Wake up. kindly read them if you have time. thanks and best wishes, melvin
Excellent thought. Fine write. I agree completlely. If those who kill for their religion put as much effort into being productive, kind, and bearers of good will, as they put into blowing themselves and others to pieces, imagine the world we would have.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
They lack courage and the face! Like rats they hide in burrowed holes, To their religion and race a big disgrace! Through acts of kindness and loving deeds, ........................ 'the men when misguided act across the terrors, world seems to be home of horrors as maddened breath when trembles ruefully across the fanatics the words of crowd when wordless by their crown'................most scintillating verse world when haunted by the goons.......really superb, i do feel for those who left their repose of hopes and desire before they could reach, really painful, Let God lead thosemisguide by His kindly light i do pray........great write, thanks for sharing