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Cincinnati, OH --March 27, 2005 -- When it comes to being sick and tired of being sick and tired, there arrives an emotion, a feeling, a burning desire for change. For improvement. From the mapping out of strategic movements to simply writing down ones thoughts, this breeds revolution. A revolution divinely titled, The Lyrical Insurrection. This is a generation that struggles to be heard in a country that thrives on indulgences of the ego. Struggling to be heard in a country caged in its own philosophies, working things out as long as the work is in their favor. In the meanwhile, people, hard working people, -brothers, sisters, children, teenagers, the youth- full of potential, are left by the wayside. That potential that has been displaced because the people are mistreated and unheard is resurrecting, now taking its rightful place in this country and in the world. The people are manifesting this struggle through the arts. The Lyrical Insurrection is an experience, a thought. A thought put into action to say now it�s our turn. Taking the principles of Allah and our ancestors, and learning from the past in a way that his-story will not repeat itself. We work from the inside out building for a transformation that will automatically induce change. This is what happens through the Lyrical Insurrection. We give people- the youth- the opportunity to be heard, to make history with words from a multicultural infrastructure stating that we all are going through the same struggle and that we are all connected as one from the same spirit. To be able to treat a child as a own younger sibling or a stranger as a brother or sister and live the life that our Creator wants his creation to live is the goal. Instead of asking questions alone, we are giving answers. Instead of arguing, we�re observing, instead of fighting, we�re writing, and instead of complaining, we�re making things happen. This is our rebellion, a �civil� unrest, The Lyrical Insurrection.  |
Poetic Insurgency Imagine a weekly poetry open mic as a marketplace, a center where instead of trading on goods and services poets -- comrades, really -- build on concepts of community and exchange CDs, wordplay and encouragement. The Lyrical Insurrection, a nearly year-old Wednesday night prayer meeting of poets, rappers and singers at The Greenwich in Walnut Hills, is this market. The night and tangential events springing from it are commandeered by Itege Olufemi, Sultan Hakiym, Matt Alvis and Black Budda'fly, refugees from other open mics who've to set up camp at The Greenwich.
"It was birthed out of a need for poets and artists to start networking themselves," says Olufemi, pictured with Sultan Hakiym. "A lot of us had been pimped by people claiming to be managers. With The Lyrical Insurrection, we really wanted to build up a formula for spoken word that's going against love poetry. The Lyrical Insurrection really melded people's mission into one without stepping on people's toes." This extends to community-related artistic events. Beginning Oct. 4, Black Budda'fly hosts "Slammin' on Main," a three-hour alternating slam and open mic with a weekly featured poet at 'Catskeller in UC's Tangeman Center. From 2-5 p.m. Oct. 9, Alvis and Black Budda'fly co-curate the first-ever "Poetry Museum Without Walls" at Eden Park's Mirror Lake. Alvis says it will bring people outside of poetry outside to poetry. "I think it's great to have a 'scene,' but the 'scene' just brings people who already have a mind to see it," he says. The Lyrical Insurrection [celebrated its one-year anniversary 8 p.m. Oct. 12 at The Greenwich with performances by Watusi Tribe, Jameze, Lexington's Nam, Poetress, Society's Tongue and a growing list of poets. The celebration was recorded live, though the organizing poets throw down each week regardless of the size of the crowd and when no one's pressing "record."]
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Importance Of Enduring Troubles Our Grandshaykh was saying about trials: everyday they are coming afresh and the seeker must be ready and careful each time for that trying, that his faith may become real faith. Everyone may improve his station. For one still under his ego's rule, he will be tested by that which his ego will never like; from everything, family, friends, work and neighbours, may come to you what you don't like. The way of development is the way of patience. There is no quick development. One must be agreeable to all happenings to and around himself. That is the sign of development, to endure peoples' troubling you. It is not important to fly in the sky or to walk on the sea or to be seen in several places at once or to dream good dreams. lmportant in our way is to be patient, resisting every wave of evil like a mountain in a storm, not being pushed back. That is development. Or like the ocean, not becoming dirty from the rivers pouring into it. People with extraordinary powers may fly, but may in the end lose their faith when Satan rushes to attack them. We must be able to endure every harm from everyone. Our Grandshaykh says, we must be awakened for everything coming contrary to our liking and be ready to tolerate it. This is the real station of faith. Three times a day a shaykh looks to his seekers, but not with a looking to give them pleasure, instead they are looking to send something to the seeker that he will never like. Are you patient, or giving up? When you are patient, your heart is given satisfaction, and a light comes on your real eyes and more faith comes to you. At each opportunity you may advance or regress. This time is particularly filled up with unliked things, the world is full of evils and devils. The Prophet said, "to keep religion in this time is more difficult than to keep fire in one's hand." We must be patient. Allah gives to those enduring unliked things endless reward. It is the way of real faith, like the way of Prophets and of Saints, to endure the badness of people. Mawlana Sheikh Nasim Haqqani | |||
