Respect For Elders – ASMAULHUSNA FOR EVERYONE

05 SALAM – Salvation Army

Salam, Salvation Army:

So many wys you are me & arent’t

I tried to talk, got sold a walk

& told to sit & fit: I can’t.

That’s past: outclassed.

Salam, Salvation Army.

Geoff Fox, May 30, 2026, Melbourne, Australia

18 19 and 21 Al Fattah Al Alim Al Basith

This is a transcreation of the Maman A Majid Binfas poem “Ayah” (Dad)

My guess is that Maman’s father had a very similar personality to my dad, but was in a society where that gentleness is better valued than in The West.

Geoff Fox, 26th December, 2020 Terra Nullius