Is It True

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Is It True Lyrics


Is it true that the grass grows again after rain?
Is it true that the flowers will rise up again in the Spring?
Is it true that birds will migrate home again?
Is it true that the salmon swim back up their streams?
It is true. This is true. These are all miracles.

But is it true that one day we’ll leave Guantanamo Bay?
Is it true that one day we’ll go back to our homes?
I sail in my dreams. I am dreaming of home.
To be with my children, each one part of me;
To be with my wife and the ones that I love;
To be with my parents, my world’s tenderest hearts.

I dream to be home, to be free from this cage.
But do you hear me, oh Judge, do you hear me at all?
We are innocent, here, we’ve committed no crime.
Set me free, set us free, if anywhere still
Justice and compassion remain in this world!

** Written by Usama Abu Kadir (Prisoner number 651 in Guantanamo)
Shortly after 11 September, Usama travelled to Pakistan to perform charity work in Afghanistan with the Islamic missionary group Tablighi Jamat. The US claims Tablighi was providing fighters for jihad in Afghanistan and arrested Mr Kadir near Jalalabad in November 2001. In his native Jordan, he was known as a dedicated family man who worked as a truck driver. In Guantanamo, he is known as prisoner number 651. In November 2007 Usama was released, for more information visit click here.

(“Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak” Copyright © University of Iowa Press.)


More Islamic Lyrics

  1. All It Takes
  2. Karam Mangta Hoon
  3. Salatullah
  4. Rab Farmaya Mahbooba
  5. Faslon Ko Khudara Mita Do
  6. Qasidah Burdah
  7. Lagian Ne Mojan
  8. Rasool’Allah
  9. Allahu Allah
  10. Bewaa Ka Sahara
  11. Tera Khawan, Main Tere Geet Gawan
  12. Heaven
  13. Baat Jo Kijiye Aur Jab Kijiye
  14. The Path of a Traveller
  15. Baraka Allahu Lakuma
  16. Aie Mout Thahar Jaa
  17. An Nabi Sallu Alai [Part 2-2]
  18. Koi Aaye Koi Jaye
  19. Bismillah
  20. Ya Maula Ali (AS)
  21. With You
  22. Har Taraf Anwaar Ki Barsaat Hai
  23. Dragged from Karbala
  24. Ay Kufey Waalo Mein Zainab (A.S) Hoon
  25. You Came To Me (Arabic)

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