Dawud Wharnsby quotes

Allah made us all a different shade and colour. Nations and tribes recognize one another! 'Cause every single person is your sister and brother. (Dawud Wharnsby)
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.
Dawud Wharnsby
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.
Dawud Wharnsby
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.
Dawud Wharnsby
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
Allah gave the Qur'an to a very special man, who passed it on to us, for the rest of all our days.
Dawud Wharnsby
Truth is buried, deep inside of men, sweep away each day.
Dawud Wharnsby
If we can just be brave enough to be each others mirror, we may finally recognize the face of conscious that we fear.
Dawud Wharnsby
Only when I smell the earth upon my face, will I ever be free, to fly from this place.
Dawud Wharnsby
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
We love to live a simple life... we simply love the life we live though some would say it's hard. (Dawud Wharnsby)
The foolish big boys who fight with their toys are so sadly silly.
Dawud Wharnsby
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.
Dawud Wharnsby
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.
Dawud Wharnsby
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.
Dawud Wharnsby
A busy buzzing bee is a lot like me, it works and it lives in community.
Dawud Wharnsby
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!
Dawud Wharnsby
Truth has been confused. Simplicity refused.
Dawud Wharnsby
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?
Dawud Wharnsby
I was never so much "interested in Islam", so much as I was interested in trying to find out about God; I wanted to discover my purpose in life and a way to better the world I share with others.
Dawud Wharnsby
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. (Dawud Wharnsby)
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?
Dawud Wharnsby
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.
Dawud Wharnsby
What of wars we have survived, genocides and hollow costs/holocausts? Have our hopes for humankind like scriptures and mass graves been lost?
Dawud Wharnsby
Hope as rich and green as the trees of an oasis.
Dawud Wharnsby