These children have shining eyes yet sharp,

A strength carved deep upon each face.

 

They are not princes or princesses from a fairy tale;

They are real, present on the earth of Gaza, full of pain and trials.

Their story is recorded without the embellishment of fantasy,

Sending a message to awaken the human conscience,

Which has dulled under the glitter of a fleeting world.

 

Their story is recorded in the anguish of lost limbs,

While children elsewhere run free with laughter.

But in Gaza, their little hands can no longer embrace their friends,

Their small feet remain amidst the rubble,

Once-sweet faces, now marred by the world’s merciless hand.

 

Their unyielding spirit captured vividly,

In small arms holding the lifeless bodies of siblings and friends.

Alone, they call out to the world from a quiet car seat,

As their loved ones vanish in the silence of shattered fragments.

 

Those who remain grow up without an embrace,

Their parents swept away by merciless cruelty.

But those who said farewell rest peacefully in an eternal garden,

Where the colors of spring bloom in perfect harmony.

They find shelter in the arms of Prophet Ibraaheem,

With no more sorrow, no wounds piercing their souls.

Only laughter stretches across the vast fields of heaven,

Where they play freely, as if daylight never fades.

 

 

Note:

"In Islam, there is a hadith (a collection of traditions containing sayings of the prophet Muhammad which, with accounts of his daily practice (the Sunna), constitute the major source of guidance for Muslims apart from the Quran) that indicates that whoever dies before reaching the age of puberty is in Paradise under the care of Prophet Ibraaheem (peace be upon him)."

What has been narrated concerning that is the hadith of Samurah ibn Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him) who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) often used to say to his companions: “Has anyone among you seen a dream?” and whoever Allah willed would tell him what he had seen. One day he said: “Last night two people came to me and made me get up, and they said to me: ‘Let’s go.’ So I set off with them…” He mentioned things that he had seen, then he said:  

“We set off, and we came to a verdant garden, in which were all the colours of spring, where there was a man who was so tall that I could hardly see his head in the sky. Around the man was the largest number of children I had ever seen…” Then among things that the two angels explained to him was: “As for the tall man who was in the garden, that was Ibraaheem. As for the children who were around him, these are all the children who died in a state of fitrah.” One of the Muslims said: “O Messenger of Allah, what about the children of the mushrikeen?” He said: “And the children of the mushrikeen.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari (7047). 

Sharh Muslim by al-Nawawi, hadith no. 2657.