Dawud Wharnsby Quotes
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Dawud Wharnsby is a Canadian Universalist Muslim singer-songwriter, poet, performer, educator and television personality. A multi-instrumentalist, he is best known for his work in the musical/poetic genre of English Language nasheed and spoken word. Wikipedia

✵ 27. June 1972

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Dawud Wharnsby Quotes

“Teachers and pop icons, empty drums beat loudest noise. We swap their quotes and CDs like children trading toys. Follow along, bite the barbed hook deep in our jaw…”

Dawud Wharnsby

"The War/La Ilaha Il Allah"
Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

Children , Quotes , Teachers

“Pictures of politicians preen across our TV screens, pretensions plaques and posters fill our minds and magazines. Promises a burning match, igniting dreams of straw…”

Dawud Wharnsby

"The War/La Ilaha Il Allah"
Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

Dreams

“Time seems cold, each day we grey away. Believe the lines that we’ve been told, 'Lose our way lose yesterday’, they say, but who are they? Who are they anyway? They didn’t hear us play at eight years old.”

Dawud Wharnsby

"Eight Years Old"
Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

Way , Time

“But if we hide ourselves away, afraid to grow and learn, we might wake up in the flames of the ignorance that burns and we’ll never be much more than only casualties of war in a struggle we can’t win if we have no faith to begin. We’ve got to tip the lid and let some sunlight in.”

Dawud Wharnsby

"The People of The Boxes"
The Prophet's Hands (2003)

War , Faith , Learning

“But when it rains, it rains on all our houses, we all get cold when it snows. When a storm rolls in, huddled up against our windows, we all feel the fear when a strong wind blows, While on this earth, we’re all of equal worth.”

Dawud Wharnsby

"All of Us"
A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden (2011)

Fear , Feeling , Strong , Housing

“Truth is buried, deep inside of men, sweep away each day.”

Dawud Wharnsby

"The Last Tea Song"
Blue Walls and The Big Sky (1995)

Men , Truth

“There are a lot of grown ups who, should be sent up to their rooms, and told they must stay there, until they learn they can play fair.”

Dawud Wharnsby

"Hi Neigbour, Salam Neighbour"
For Whom The Troubadour Sings (2010)

Learning

“Your bombs and pens like swords, held high, up to my throat. You have made the cost of blood, as cheap as ink and all I think.”

Dawud Wharnsby

"What Has Become"
For Whom The Troubadour Sings (2010)

Thinking

“All the girls and boys seen preening through school halls, fighting to fit in, games they just can’t win, higher education dumbing down a nation, around the square unsure of where we fit in.”

Dawud Wharnsby

"Rachel"
Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

Education , School , Girl , Game