Oh so that's a scholarship, said he
over menthol and black coffee
why not work in a
law firm, or try that exam
for foreign services, and send money
for marble on the mosque floor
What's an investment bank, a good
deal-maker
Some securities and shares, for a money
manager
traveling between glass-covered towers
be a Hajj, the alms-giver, the
neighborhood preacher
Be a management expert, an
entrepreneurship teacher,
wear a tie and a shirt, those
speakers in a hall of
covered heads, cloaks of modesty draped
over
Write words of god over
a Friday prayer's coin box, or better, in
sacred, PIN-code protected donations
You can do Google and Microsoft
internships, right? I swear
I fasted for thirty days straight,
said he, not a sip of water when the
sun
bakes the air-conditioned cushions
behind
dark film windows, it's a Honda City sedan
good for commuting and yearly
pilgrimages
This app, gives you
God's great name in stereo
five times a day and finds
where Mecca is, in dark and
in fluorescent brightness
Finance, banking, I hope, said he
so that I can build
a mosque and an orphanage
while my mother sleeps well, thinking
of a savings, in a Syari'ah bank, God-stamped
enough for lifetimes of seeing Medina
again and again
Be a doctor,
lawyer engineer and executive
give the father of a girl with a good
name,
a prayer mat and gold, and say
I will take care of your daughter,
and raise children with good names
I promise
I won't tell them that their
son-in-law listened to
songs about pot and
had really long hair before
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