Dear Muslim Jihadist,
It feels like yesterday when you accounted for all of them lives, and with your own included
And I am not here to demonize you, patronize you or judge you on your motive
I concede that you may have faced your own provocation, your own injustice
But besides your reasons, this is to update you on the state of affairs since
The religion, yours, mine, ours is in turmoil as we are fighting with and killing most of, and then some more Muslims
Divided into Shia and Sunni, confused, tentative, defensive are some of the states we are in
The children of Noah, of Abraham, people of One God, fighting, shedding blood is how the big picture reads
In some ways, we may have lost the forest for the trees
So make a wild guess as to what is on the rise
The non-believers, the agnostics, the atheists
And I am not sure how thrilled God is with all this
A very rudimentary question in my mind goes as such
If your loved ones were hurt for no fault of theirs, is harming the no fault loved ones of others the correct response
For how is God going to settle between you and your victims
As many of them were aiming for the very same Heavens
Still there is hope as I think of the life of Jesus, or Joseph treating his brothers or Muhammad the Meccans
And I wonder about your true potential, the could have been
You were willing to lay your life for a cause
Only if you could make your point by harnessing those energies for all our well being
The rage of hate, revenge and regress turned into the passion to love, embrace, and progress
The kind of stuff legends are made of yes
Arif Ahmad is a cardiologist in practice in Wisconsin, USA