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A prayer for Syria

As I listen to the American plans to arm the Syrian rebels, and ponder the 93,000 (and counting) confirmed dead… As I reflect on the crimes of the mass murderer Bashar al-Assad, a prayer rises up in my heart. The answer is not in further arming, but in disarming the whole of humanity.
A prayer for Syria
Syrian palm flag
Omid Safi

As I listen to the American plans to arm the Syrian rebels,
and ponder the 93,000 (and counting) confirmed dead…

As I reflect on the crimes of the mass murderer Bashar al-Assad
A prayer rises up in my heart.

Destruction of Syria (Aleppo)

Destruction of Syria (Aleppo)


The solution
is not arming this group
and that group

That game
only benefits the global arms industry
And the divides humanity
against humanity.

The answer is not in further arming.
But in disarming
the whole of humanity.

The jihadists we need
are those who would step in
to stop
bloodshed.

Someday we have to come
to beat swords into ploughshares
And learning to live together
as brothers and sisters

Or surely we are already
Perishing like fools.

How things are now
Is not how they are meant to be
Is not how God
would have us live.

Each life
Is God’s masterpiece
And we are breaking God’s heart
Our own hearts.

The path to peace
Cannot go through war

We cannot attain to the Oneness of God
As we keep trampling upon the unity of humanity.

I know I am not the only one
Who knows this.

Peace.
Now.

Peace
For Syria
Now

Peace
For the world
Now.

Salam alaykum,
ya Bilad al-sham.

 

Syrian palm flag

Syrian palm flag courtesy Shutterstock (http://shutr.bz/15cZ0rF)

 

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