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Dedicated to Connie Rice, Founder and former director of Revive Dance Studios, Littleton, Colorado.

* MUEZZIN: THE MOSQUE GOER, OFTEN THE LEADING SCHOLAR,WHO INVITES MUSLIMS TO REGULAR PRAYER, FIVE TIMES EVERY DAY.
COMPOSED/WRITTEN ON THE 3RD OF NOVEMBER, 2009...AFTER HEARING THE AZAAN FOR THE PRE-DAWN (FAJR) PRAYER.
*AZAAN: THE CALL BY THE MUEZZIN INVITING THE DEVOUT, PIOUS, GOD-FEARING AND ABOVE ALL THE GOD-LOVING MUSLIMS TO PRAYER.

*S.T. COLERIDGE...SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE...A FAMOUS POET OF THE ROMANTIC ERA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND A FINE POET...BEYOND DOUBT.

COMPOSED ON THE EVENING OF THE 26TH OF OCTOBER, 2009...AFTER A SILENT MYSTERIOUS CALL...ASKED ME ABOUT THE MEANING OF TRUE LOVE AND THANKS TO GOD ALMIGHTY ALLAH, ALSO REVEALED THE MEANING TO ME....FILLING MY SOUL WITH SUBLIME SATISACTION.

*MANSOOR AL HALLAJ WAS A GREAT MUSLIM MYSTIC WHO WAS CRUCIFIED BY THE CLERICS AND RULERS/JUDGES OF BAGHDAD MORE THAN 900 YEARS AGO...HE WAS NOT A BELIEVER IN MERE RITUAL PRAYERS AND RITUAL WORSHIPPERS DESCRIBED IN THE HOLY QURAN AS "SAHOON-AL-AZEENA" (THOSE WHO PRAY JUST TO BE SEEN). HALLAJ WAS PERSECUTED AND HIS LIMBS WERE CUT PART BY PART AND HE WAS CRUCIFIED...YET HE NEVER CRIED OUT FOR HELP NOR DID HE SAY WHAT HE SAID WAS WRONG. HE WAS A TRUE AND DEVOUT MUSLIM AND A TRUE LOVING WORSHIPPER OF GOD ALMIGHTY KNOWN IN ARABIC, PERSIAN, URDU, TURKISH AND HINDI AS ALLAH. THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE NAME "ALLAH" ...IT IS UNIQUE AND IS INCOMPARABLE AND DISTINCTLY ALONE IN ITS LOFTY GREATNESS.

COMPOSED ON THE 26TH OCTOBER...AS THE AIR RESOUNDS WITH THE CALL FOR POST-SUNSET PRAYERS...THE CALL DEFINED AS AZAAN IN ARABIC, PERSIAN, URDU AND HINDI.

I wrote this in 2006 After becoming frustrated with all the hypocritical church goers attempting to judge gay people while having countless sins they need to correct.

Composed on the 3rd of October...after a pre-dawn walk through the streets of a quiet city.

I wrote this for my pastor. A very kind person