IN SECRECY HE WAITS…

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A Sunni Muslim friend

I’ve worked with doesn’t pretend…

By hook or crook

The People of the Book,+

He’ll attack, confuse and rend.

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He changes his username

As part of his viscious game…

Folks unaware

Fall into his snare

And go away not quite the same.

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Considering the experience he’s had,

All (but one) Christian is bad…

He was shafted

In a job and laughed at,

His idol…a man called Ahmed Deedat.^

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He’s doing what De-Dad did,

Using soft sarcasm to rid…

Bibles of their power,

At each change he’d tower

And mock the Word like a kid.

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My friend does a similar thing,

Using only one verse for quoting…

‘Gainst this argument getter

Most don’t know any better

And find his point frustrating..

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“My People are not taught to think,” **

In short, their education stinks…

One verse cannot be

Whole doctrine, you see,

Most Bible education:  Rinky-Dink!

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“My” Sunni take advantage,

Of the poor training disciples get fledged…

Can’t really fly–

In Bible JUST get by–

Too soon to be pushed off the ledge.

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Muslim scripture says lie in wait

Use deception to exacerbate…

Christians’ and Jews’

Religious views,

And always say “Allah is Great.”**

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It wasn’t his idea to befriend

This Christian work partner in the end…

But friend I became

Following the Holy Name

Because perhaps…agape’ love didn’t bend.

–Jonathan Caswell

+ “The People of the Book”…specifically Jews and Christians…the Torah: Wisdom, Prophetic and Historical books…and the Bible.

*Ahmed Deedat, recently passed away, is a Muslim advocate seen on You Tube.

 **A paraphrase of Isaiah 5:13.

*** “Allahu Akbar”  means (to many) that God (Allah only) is the greatest….inferring that no other gods, especially the Jewish and Christian god(s) are anything1