“Revert”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Ustadz Adam Daniel Kelwick wrote this poem, titled, “Revert”:

“When you call me a ‘Revert’,

You sound like a badawi.

Teaching English, but pervert,

To an English hadhari.

Connotations negative,

To do ... a verb, makes me frown.

It is not convert’s narrative,

Not to ‘be’, it is not a noun.

My birth into pure fithrah,

Matured, not to be restored.

Now this is causing fitnah,

Because of a misused word.

We were not born upon Islam,

No obligations to pray.

But after we said kalam,

The duties we do not delay.

Explaining to a heathen,

From you, away they will go.

Accusing them of treason,

Your arrogance, they will know.

I can revert to the past,

But only to which is worse.

So, for my Islam to last,

Take note, I cannot revert.”