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ROADS TO PEACE OR WAR?

Have you known the price of peace?
Abandoned houses, deserted fields,
Dying relatives, mounting needs,
Orphaned nephew, deserted niece,
Mother in chains, father in sheets.
Sorrow plentiful , abundant grief,
Is this the price of secular peace?

This is not a road to peace but war
The dove you worship leaves a scar,
The men of wisdom know your will
Save a few, the rest you kill,
The moral behind a secular war
Numerous casualties, abundant scars
Is this the price of peace or war?

Allah knows your intent quite well,
When in the holiest book He tells,
Peace they say, but war they mean,
Good they say, but harm they deem,
Allah wishes the believers to know
War they make and they do not know.