Wht happend to the Ummah once known so well?

What happend to the Ummah once known so well?

You used to inspire others with your way of thinking and speech
People came from afar just to hear us teach

What happend to the Ummah once known so well?
Greatness was known but now can you tell
Mosques are empty, refrigerators are stocked
We lost our deen, we feel secure because our mansions are locked
In my teen years salat really wasnt that tight
Now i gotta pray each one of them twice.

What happend to the Ummah once known so well?
Greatness was known but now can you tell
Brother we prefer light skinned women
while righteously maintain our deen against raicism (and tribalism)…

What happend to the Ummah once known so well?
Greatness was known but now can you tell can you

Kids in Africa starving cant afford to cry
I’ll pay the bank interest on a car I cant afford to buy

What happend to the Ummah once known so well?
Greatness was known but now can you tell

We used to smile at each other with faces full of light
Now we frown on each other, we bicker, and we fight
Pops in the mosque praying,
kids in the streets haitin
kids on the corner selling pot and in the mosque preaching…

What happend to the Ummah once known so well?
Greatness was known but now can you tell
The Quran has left our hearts - stranded hanging on our walls
6,232 verses so strong
9 out of 10 of us cant even read it or write
1924 seems distand like way before Christ

If I was to fall on my knees and ask you to forgive everything and anyone out of love for the one… I’ve seen..
And if you were to fall on your knees and ask me the same but I dont even think about it…, lets just break out of the darkness of ignorance.