Amal Al-Jubouri: "Veil of Religions" (From Arabic)

The Veil of Religions

By Amal Al-Jubouri

Translated by A.Z. Foreman

Click to hear me recite the original

If You are One

And Your teachings are one,

Why did You engrave our infancy in the tablets of the Torah,

And ornament our youth with the Gospels

Only to erase all that in Your Final Book?

Why did You draw us, the ones who acknowledge Your Oneness,

Into disagreement?

Why did You multiply in us 

When You are the One and Only? 

The Original:

حجاب الاديان

امل الجبوري

إنْ كُنتَ واحدا

وتعاليمك و احدة

فلماذا كَتَبْتَ طفولاتنا في التوراة

وزيَّنتَ لها شبابَنا في الانجيل

 ومحَوتَ كل ذلك في كتابك الاخير

لماذا سحبتنا نحن الموحدين فيك 

الى الاختلاف

و لماذا تعددت فينا 

وانت الواحد الاحد