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Najwa Kareem May 6
Her name,
Farideh Beiram (Rokhvand)

Her fame,
My Childhood Teacher

Her pedagogy,
Our hearts together and all that I have to give

My end of the school year evaluation of our teacher,
Sr. Farideh, her kind of love for us, rare

Last night
after exiting a bus
I thought of you, teacher
and your rare pedagogy
describing it as
A blue diamond kind of care

When I looked up to say salaam and thank you,
there you were
Blue Diamond
in your color and in your shape
sitting next to the moon

A mother's & a teacher's
conscious, caring, confirmation
never far away

May you be resting in eternal peace
Insha Allah,
I'll never forget you,
Sr. Farideh

Your children tell me
that you're far from far away
I see them
and they tell me
that you and your teachings
are never far away

I tell myself
that you're far from far away
I see me
and I tell myself
that you and your teachings
are never far away

Blue Diamond
in all your different shades
Like the amazing humanitarian, human rights activist, and leader, Malcolm X, you revered
martyred on 2/21/1965,
may your spectrum of good Adab
continue to glitter
and be royalty
forever,
richly alive

By: Najwa Kareem

Written 2/16/24
Honoring one of my favorite and best elementary school teachers on Teachers' Day which is today, 5/6/25 and honoring her this entire week of Teacher Appreciation Week!
Najwa Kareem Apr 22
The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, asserted last month, After ten years of war, Yemen remains one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises
And UNICEF reported, 2 MILLION children are in need for food, water, shelter and medicine and "children are being robbed of their futures" like the rolls of dices

Yemen, they've reduced you to that of a car, a lemon
Seeing you as an inferior like most of them conceptualize women

Playing out their terrorism, the corrupt and the deranged of high office in the US
**** your innocent while defending their hundreds of strikes saying to the world we could care less

Secretary of Defense, Hegseth making their plans to attack "Iran backed Houthis" a family affair  
His lie, after lie, after lie giving God reason to whip his fake *** and tell him don't you dare  

The so-called Superpowers after another's land, desiring to steal resources, and dominate
Yemen with its predominantly Muslim population will INSHA ALLAH soon do away with their evil and hate

Regional leaders turn their other cheek at your daily struggle and suffering and the ones that rule the country sitting above you, stab you in the back
Because it is Taqwa, fear of God, no not correct, rather consciousness of "ALLAH's power presence and authority...HIS merciful power and HIS corrective power" (Imam Muhammad al-Asi) that these cowards lack

Yemen, Remembering The Dismissed On Earth Day
Let us see it and its oppressed people every day because for their human rights to be honored and for their freedom to be won, there is no other way

By: Najwa Kareem
Najwa Kareem Apr 8
(When reading this poem, it's fitting to pronounce 'Salman' using the Arabic pronunciation.)

Salman, Kibbutz Blinken's Athan Man
Tellin' Gaza I understand

Salman, Kibbutz Blinken's Athan Man
Fighting by taking a stand

Salman, Kibbutz Blinken's Athan Man
Salman, tellin' Gaza we understand

Salman, Kibbutz Blinken's Athan Man
Salman, fighting by taking a stand

Salman, Kibbutz Blinken's Athan Man
An Athan telling the world, we must take command

Salman, Kibbutz Blinken's Athan Man
Prepping us for prayer, prayer/a daily ritual, which is supposed to help us to assert, Oppressors we're not a fan  

Salman, Kibbutz Blinken's Athan Man
Salman, tellin' Gaza I understand

Salman, Kibbutz Blinken's Athan Man
Salman, fighting by taking a stand

Salman, Kibbutz Blinken's Athan Man
Salman, Kibbutz Blinken's Athan Man
Salman, Kibbutz Blinken's Athan Man
Salman, Kibbutz Blinken's Athan Man
Tellin' Gaza we understand

Salman, Kibbutz Blinken's Athan Man
Announcing 'God is Greater than', 'God is more Important than', 'God is more Significant than', 'God is more Powerful than' Trump and Netanyahu's clan

Salman, Kibbutz Blinken's Athan Man
With his Athan, insisting, Palestine, take my hand

By: Najwa Kareem

https://www.instagram.com/omarknowsphotos/reel/C5fGcRvta2J/
"THANK YOU SOOO MUCH, SALMAN, FOR CONTINUING TO BE ON THE FRONTLINES OF OUR BATTLEFIELD TO RESIST THE OPPRESSORS OF THE OPPRESSED/OF OURS IN PALESTINE/OUR HOMELAND AND FOR ALL OF THE SACRIFICES OF YOUR TIME, RESOURCES, ETC. TO DO WHAT YOU CAN (LIKE HOW YOU RECITED THE ATHAN AT THIS COMMUNAL GATHERING FOR IFTAR IN FRONT OF THE HOME OF FORMER US SECRETARY OF GENOCIDE, ANTONY BLINKEN) TO AID IN OUR HUMAN FAMILY GETTING THEIR/OUR HUMAN RIGHTS HONORED AND TO ASSIST IN A FREE PALESTINE BECOMING A REALITY, A FREED HOLY LAND. PICTURES OF YOU ENGAGING IN GRASSROOTS ACTIONS AT PUBLIC FORUMS SAY A LOT; PICTURE TAKERS (EVEN ONES AT THE AL-QUDS DAY (2025) PROTEST) LIKE TO KEEP YOU IN THE SPOTLIGHT :) AS TUPAC WOULD HAVE LIKELY SAID TO YOU IF HE WERE STILL ALIVE, YOU ARE APPRECIATED!"

From Najwa and your oppressed family in the now miserably destroyed land of olive trees and delicious tasting kunafa.

To Salman: This **photo [of Salman giving the Athan] was seen on Hazami's Instagram and because I was so drawn to it and find it so appealing, I saved it as a draft in my email on 4/21/24. After viewing it, a couple of ideas for how to use it came to mind. The idea to write the poem below was not one of the ideas I thought of then. The writing of this poem happened this morning when just as I was getting ready to make a few duas, the first and second phrases/verses came to me (after reciting out loud a gift I intend to offer to another person); I recited both verses out loud and was very happy with them. When I went to my email a bit later in the morning, I decided to type these two phrases/verses and save them in my draft folder, and after seeing them written or typed before me, I made the decision to write you a poem. 

**Tried to put the photo here but it did not work

*I've also made this poem a protest song! Insha Allah, I will sing it to you/Salman and others.
Najwa Kareem Feb 12
Mixed race, pretty face,
Patrick Mahomes,
don't go to the bottle
and be drunken, one who forgettably roams

At the big game, you disappointed your fans as you stated on X,
But more importantly, days prior, you let down your GOD on a world's camera,
and made me wonder, what cowardly ways you might show next

US President Trump said when asked if he has a favorite for the Superbowl game...“I don’t want to say, but there’s a certain quarterback that seems to be a pretty good winner."
“Yeah, I mean, it’s always cool to be able to play in front of a sitting president, someone at the top position in our country,” said Mahomes, who shouldn't have been a moral compass spinner.

Mahomes said he “didn’t see that clip” of Trump’s remarks, “but obviously, it’s cool to hear that he’s seen me play football and respects the game that I play,” the quarterback said.
You know just as well as I do, Mahomes, that Trump respects nothing about the "Black job" slaves as he would call you play and to him, you, your team, and what you do on the field are simply entertainment, what you should have answered at the press conference to honor your ancestors dead.

From "The best quarterback in the world"...We didn't start how we wanted to; obviously those turnovers hurt. And I take all the blame for that. I mean those early turnovers swing the momentum of the game, and they kinda capitalized on them, and they scored on the one and then they got an immediate touchdown and so that's 14 points that I kinda gave them, and it's hard to come back from that in a Superbowl, and so I just didn't play to my standard, and I have to do better next time.
Yeh, and if the opportunity returns, tell the truth that you are honored that the President is coming to your big game unless he is Trump, a lying, corrupt, ******, bigot, The US will "take over" and "own" Gaza..., no remorse convicted felon, and "The best quarterback in the world" don't make lying by omission your crime.

Mixed race, pretty face,
Patrick Mahomes,
with reporters in February 2025,
you played diplomatic,
AND did your teammate, Taylor Swift's not married to Kelce,
thus, no Superbowl win for you and your team going to its' trophy case

By: Najwa Kareem

*Written on 2/10/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCzi3_sLwB8
"But I still sit here shell-shocked by what we witnessed. The Chiefs didn't lose. They got their *** kicked. They got stomped. They got it given to them. And to see Patrick Mahomes sitting on the bench just draped in humility, it was like ****...You saw it, right? Travis Kelce was like ****. Ain't nothing we could do. And you know as bad as it was, and as bad as it looked, the offensive line for Kansas City Chiefs got destroyed." -Stephen A. Smith, ESPN FIRST TAKE, 2/10/25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3mCDocs6Z8
The Kansas City Chiefs Got Exposed on National TV

"Well, Mahomes didn't perform, I don't think," a female spectator laments when interviewed after the Superbowl game.

Superbowl 2025 Losers' Take Away Lesson: When asked as an athlete anything concerning a President, always say in the press room what you say in the locker room.
Najwa Kareem Jan 18
She's getting louder
speaking truth to power

Atefeh Rokhvand's getting louder
speaking truth to power

Speaking truth to power
she's getting louder

A KAAS fighter getting louder
speaking truth to power

She took the floor away from ****** Blinken
Extremely ****** of with a lying Secretary of Genocide monster - from her eyes, no winkin

As they pulled Atefeh out to the exit door
she raised her voice of truth even more

She's getting louder
speaking truth to power

Atefeh Rokhvand's getting louder
speaking truth to power

Speaking truth to power
she's getting louder

A KAAS fighter getting louder
speaking truth to power

Showing the world what holding a despot accountable until his final days looks like
She used her honest, accurate words instead of her ******* to tell Antony Blinken, Take a hike

"The prettiest revolutionary" is a role model of social justice activism, an icon for her daughter and many others
I'm sure her and my loved ones who have passed on are smiling and all of Gaza's martyred mothers

She's getting louder
speaking truth to power

Atefeh Rokhvand's getting louder
speaking truth to power

Speaking truth to power
she's getting louder

A KAAS fighter getting louder
speaking truth to power

By: Najwa Kareem

Written on 11/16/25

https://www.instagram.com/rokhville/reel/DE1KkUNRIdo/
*I bet you no one else wrote you a poem :) haha
This poem, this gift is for you/Atefeh and anyone else who reads it.
Reading it out loud (which I will do to you, INSHA ALLAH), I cried.

https://www.instagram.com/queenofpalestine/reel/DE0EvfCxxo4/

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say, “Whosoever of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able to do so, then [let him change it] with his tongue; and if he is not able to do so, then with his heart — and that is the weakest of faith.” [Muslim]
Reference: Hadith 34, 40 Hadith an-Nawawi

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
Najwa Kareem Jan 8
Guys, remember Max T?
The Israeli at the Zionist Embassy
in Washington, DC
"Atefah is a terrorist," he loves being a bully

Max T couldn't keep away from KAAS (Keffiyeh As A (head) Scarf) fighting, sister-in-law of Ensi
You know her, never far away on the battleground from her bestie, Asi
and the wife of a husband demonstrating Muslim male heroism, Mehti
We both love Palestine and its persecuted people, right, sweetie

On 1/6/25, God's blessings fell from a sky in serenity
to remind us of how the works of purity
can turn Max T into Mehti

As quickly as the snowflakes in the new year blew jittery,
Standing in the procession line, the look-alike's poster reading, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, let free

From Max T to Mehti,
the power of actions of piety
and self-determination emerging consistently
showing the world what can result when we stand for the downtrodden's dignity

Max T, of the Israhelli Embassy
metamorphose Mehti (Mehdi Nahidian), of Palestinian solidarity

By: Najwa Kareem
https://www.instagram.com/sumermob/reel/DEidb4WyR0R/

*May ALLAH continue to work through us to continue turning Max T(s) into Mehti(s).

*Mehti :), you look exactly like Max T wearing the same kind of winter face gear that he wears to disguise his face or to hide away as not to be identified; even your eyes peeking out reminded me of his as he regularly wears a similar face covering. It was this observation that motivated me to write this poem, and to write it immediately (even though I was to have started working on a few other things). When the inspiration comes, it must be put to work haha

*Thank you very much, Mehti for all of the good works you have done for our lovely, human family!
Najwa Kareem Dec 2024
You're wearing a lapel pin with the Israeli flag on it, I said to him as we were riding the train full of passengers.
He shook his head, Yes.
You're a terrorist supporter.
You're a supporter of a terrorist state.
You condone, you support a terrorist state which makes you a terrorist.
Turning to an acquaintance of mine, I say out loud,
My friend, you see the guy there. He supports Israel, a terrorist state.
He supports a criminal state.
Can you believe that?
He's wearing a Israel lapel pin to accent his clothing, I said as I laughed sarcastically.
The passenger wearing a monsterous devil's lapel pin quietly and uncomfortably gets up from the seat and walks to the doors to prepare to exit.
I hope you reconsider being a terrorist supporter, I say to him from my seat at a distance from the doors he's soon to exit.
I hope you reconsider being a crimes against humanity supporter.
Israel is committing barbaric crimes against premature infants, babies, children (over 50% of the Palestinian population are children), innocent women, innocent men.

"We have a terrorist supporter on board the train."
If YOU'RE ONE, get off.
If YOU'RE NOT ONE, stay on.
Stay on and let us together fight back the terrorists.
The terrorists on trains and off of trains.
12/26/24

This poem was written on a metro train on Monday morning, 12/16/24.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/23/gaza-north-israel-jabalya-palestinians/

NO VISION PROBLEMS, NO PROBLEMS SEEING OUT OF THE FRONT WINDOW, RIGHT TRAIN CONDUCTORS?! WHO THE TERRORISTS ARE IS CRYSTAL CLEAR. WHO THE MURDERERS ARE IS CRYSTAL CLEAR. THEIR ACTIONS ARE FULL SPEED AHEAD BARBARIC, HORRIFIC, ROARING WITH EVIL, DEMONIC.

Hey TERRORISTS, BIDEN AND NETANYAHU...How many sedatives did you have to take to actually get your head on the pillow to try to sleep last night? I'm sure GOD'S whippin' your WIMPY, BULLYING, LYIN', PHONY, WAR CRIMINAL, MURDERER ***.

Hey TERRORIST, US SECRETARY OF STATE, ANTONY BLINKEN...How poorly did you perform in bed with your wife last night or was your wife away from you all's bed on a hunt for a new husband, a man with *****?
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