I praise the role you play in this Philippine Republic in bringing Islam to the fore and consciousness as a vital tool of education.
As a youth, I dream that Markazz Shabbab and your leadership engages our society more, lead us to a direction out of darkness. I wish our children make their own laboratories within their homes and discover new things.
I WISH for a land that nourishes its people, both in spirit and in body, a studentry that leads us into enlightenment.
Can a presidential race be instead a people’s space, (election be selection) , Sultanate be a code of honor (royalty be loyalty to law ), education be vocation, graduation be assumption of responsibility to humankind?
We are free, able to wake up and choose, able to chart our day. But is freedom instead a prison, when all we do is receive and we do not give?
I wish for the eye to not just see but to SAY WOW to the colors of a rainbow, paint his garden with as many roses as she can plant.
I wish for the ear to listen to the pain, agony, experience of the wise.
I wish for the mouth to speak up for the deaf and against slavery.
I wish for the hand to lead a direction, draw a map of change, write, plot action.
I wish persons can turn to one another, create a community out of their aspiration.Turn a walis tingting into a broom that sweeps away hatred and jealousy.
I wish to see you under trees, recite the Darangen words like you do the Bayang Magiliw and remember Dansalan Declaration, Padang Karbala and the heroes with no books to tell about them.
I wish for the Lake to be a pool, our own Timoga. For our airport to bring goods, for our banks to grow from deposits. We cannot murder the lake for our own eating pleasure, throw away the plastic nang walang pakundangan. Such plastic if thrown on the canal reaches our waters, gets fed into the fish’ mouth and thus kills the fish.[]