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We all want a simple song. We all want to get along. We all want to just belong. We all want to know right from wrong. We all want to love and be loved strong.

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Build me a tomb for when I die, build it 50,000 feet into the sky... Build me a boat I want to discover America, build me a boat to take me to the edge of the seven seas, build me a boat and you can sail along with me, we'll spread our money, power, religion and disease.... Who are they to say that we own nothing and our lives have gone astray?

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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.

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My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say.

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What of wars we have survived, genocides and hollow costs/holocausts? Have our hopes for humankind like scriptures and mass graves been lost?

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Fences and forts with walls and flags, caw caw — they're so funny.

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My intention is to use music as a tool for social change. It is always a prayer of mine that the work I produce will help, in some small way, to better the world or provide others with hope in themselves or trust in The Creator's mercy to us all.

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If we can just be brave enough to be each others mirror, we may finally recognize the face of conscious that we fear.

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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.

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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.

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I only feel close to you when I'm under open sky, I only feel guided when I'm free to question why.

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I saw a dream, Earth safe and green. No hunger no war, water so clean. I'll work for the world that I saw, set my mind and say insha Allah.

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'Where's the next show?', 'Why don't you make a Video?', 'Put on these beads and clothes and The Bling, Bling!' Well, if that's all it's about than I think that I want out, of a career that won't just let me sing....'cause music, faith and knowledge should be free.

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I included songs which were aimed at making listeners think a little more deeply about faith in general. People of The Boxes for example, is not just a fable with implied reference to Jews and Christians, but it also points out that we who call ourselves "Muslims" are also living in a box sometimes. I wanted to help myself and the listeners realise our own faults too — to stop being so judgmental of others and to get ourselves out of the dogmatic boxes we have trapped ourselves in.

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What of this God whom we command, to bless our coloured flag and land, so busy drawing lines in sand that we don't think and understand.

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Dear God I've heard your name from teachers, family and friends, you made the universe and so will live on when it ends. Everyone I know admits they've never seen your face, they're not sure where you live and have no map to the place.

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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.

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We love to live a simple life... we simply love the life we live though some would say its hard.

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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.

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The world is not a box, there's no lid, no doors, no cardboard flaps or locks, and everything in nature from the clouds to the rocks is a piece of the puzzle of the purpose of mankind, it's a piece of the peace that we'll find.

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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.

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I believe the spiritual journey that each of us takes on is a personal one, and I feel religion is a delicate road to be on. I don't like to belong to one religious community as I don't want people to feel excluded from asking for my help or learning with me. It's all about bringing people together to celebrate their various interpretations of scripture. I am a Muslim and I worship in mosques when I am in Pakistan. I also worship in Unitarian churches when I'm in the US. Such spiritual freedom is very important to me.

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Allah gave the Qur'an to a very special man, who passed it on to us, for the rest of all our days.

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We all want to fit into a culture, a community; we want to find a home, security, freedom of faith and lifestyle but these days all those things are threatened. We don't know whether the "freedom" in our western democracies means "free of domination" or "free to dominate". Muslim youth are confused and searching for answers. Some are looking towards rigid traditionalism, others to more secular approaches. Many of us are left wondering what is right and what is wrong.

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Can you hear the rhythm of all/Allah's creation? The rhythm of the clapping of the thunder and the rain? Can you see the rhythm of all creation? The lightning and the leaves and the seasons as they change?

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We have dealt with all these idealists in the past, I'm sure we'll find a way to deal with them today... Rid our world of all these fanatics one by one, won't let not prophet lover ruin my fun. We'll string 'em up and shoot 'em down.

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There's always work that must be done... Life's so simple when we simply work to make it fun.

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Standing in the market square, so alive but void of life, We work and we sweat and we struggle through each day. As our efforts scar our hands, this world stains us with demands. It's hard to see life's humour in the business games we play. As we gnaw our nails with stress, our fists and hearts pound so carelessly. With every effort forward, how much more can we digress?

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The foolish big boys who fight with their toys are so sadly silly.

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A busy buzzing bee is a lot like me, it works and it lives in community.

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