Dawud Wharnsby Quotes

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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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No more starry eyes from behind these dusty spectacles. I'll wipe them and follow my own shadow for a change.

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If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear.

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Truth as clear and blue as the sky we walk under. Love as bright and loud as the lightning and thunder. Peace as pure and white as the moon, so full of wonder. So many different colours of Islam!

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Allah made us all a different shade and colour. Nations and tribes recognize one another! 'Cause every single person is your sister and brother.

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

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Words can never really help you say, what you want them to anyway. And words can never really help you see, what you really want to be.

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It was my agenda — value our faith, value our opportunity to grow and better ourselves as believers and citizens of the world. Singing to and for myself and Muslims, I can be more explicate in my lyrics, drawing directly from Islamic sources. Some of my music is naturally a little bit more sensitive to the opinions and feelings of a broader audience — still Islamic in its essence, but more "holistic" and "organic" than dogmatic.

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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...

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Start small, put down the book you're reading and sit with your grandmother to learn her language and find out about her life's struggles and her history, before she passes on and your history is lost; put down the TV remote control and stop letting pop culture define who you are and go for a walk through your hometown's historical landmarks. Find your identity by actually looking for the things in life that appeal to you or stir emotion in you. If you just let your government, your local imam, even your local pop singer or nasheed singer, define what you should be, you will never be more than that. Look in the mirror and ask yourself, 'Who do I WANT to be?' Start there.

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Put all our pride away, always find a gentle word to say, you know we shouldn't be full of ourselves when we should be full of humility.

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We've got to take a chance, fly by the seat of our proverbial pants. There's so much we can do, out in this world, me and you. There's so much we can improve, if you dig my drift, if you catch my groove.

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You and I, wonder at the sky, call God a different name. As we try, learn and long to fly — you and I are so differently the same.

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If he could read a line, just understand one sign. Close his mouth and hear the peace of hope and fear, if he could read a line. If he could keep in time.

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I sent an email to my loved one, just the other day, it's sad communication has evolved this way. We use so many words but have so little to relay, as angels scribble down every letter that we say. All the viral attachments sent and passionate insults we vent, it's easy to be arrogant behind user passwords we invent. But on the day the scrolls are laid, with every word and deed displayed, when we read our accounts, I know, for one, I'll be afraid.

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It has nothing to do with age, it's not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It's a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego's shell. True life can't ever start, until we offer up our heart.

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The past we've got we must forget. Future hasn't happened yet. Carry this moment in a song. Insha Allah, it won't be long.

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If a fist can hold a sword, and a fist can clench a pen, but the points of both are missed, by dull, tarnished pride of men. We must open up our hands, raise our palms up high to see, the mazes of our unique selves, end with similarity.

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I glance reflections of my face everyplace I go, in my mirror and in shop windows, like the lead in my own show. Do I dare look closely? See each wrinkle, scar and flaw?

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If we only knew, the sacred value, And if the might of our pen, is stronger than the swords of men, let us unsheathe our minds, write with our hearts again.

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Only when I smell the earth upon my face, will I ever be free, to fly from this place.

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Someday we'll realize, perhaps much to our surprise, the keys to free a smile have been with us all the while: look for good, and spread that good around.

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Inspiration comes from many places — experiences, places, people, books, and the work of other artists. As a writer, it is important to keep one's senses open to the world around and then trying to capture those impressions to a page. Writing is sort of a game or puzzle to me — playing with words and concepts to present something new to listeners.

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Eating education is like eating Christmas pudding: Too much can make your stomach sore, too much can spoil your whole Christmas. Learning from a man who learned all he learned from another, can lead you to a safe place, but destroy your sense of wonder. Trapped inside a book, locked inside a lecture, when do you find the time to love and spend your days in forests? And when ideals are fleeting — tell me then who do you turn to? They prove to you that God is dead, but to them you're just a number.

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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…

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You could call me antisocial, I've called myself that sometimes too, but I just prefer to be alone, and that's nothing against you.

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All of us, ride on the same bus, shop at the same malls and stores. All of us, debate and discuss, decide and divide what is mine and what's yours.

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There was a house made out of sticks, there was a city, made out of bricks, I was amazed at what I saw, all I could say was Subhanallah!

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We've digitized the revelations — does our rehearsed recitation go any deeper than our throats? Our calls to prayer they seem to rise up to the skies, conferences and lectures, seminars for you and I. The words that blow away with the nasheed that make us cry, yet why are the drums so silent?

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