Ahmatjan Osman

All verbs of Being describe me.

[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

@MamtiminAla Do you need protection from the the violence and genocide of the CCP or the Chinese occupation and colonization of your country?

[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

Is this the national flag of Palestine or the flag of Hamas as an organization?

https://t.co/ozOc0I2zjh

[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

Did you know that East Turkistan (colonial name Xinjiang) was an independent country that was annexed in 1884 by Imperial China? At that time, there were the British, Russian, and Ottoman empires that recognized this crime, which was not condemnable at the time.

[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

ئوت ئوتقا تۇتاشقاندا

فاتىمە سەيياھ

يامغۇر كۈنلىرى
ئۇلار ئەمدى يىراق بىر يەرنىڭ كۆرۈنۈشى
يانغىن ۋاقتى:
پارتلاش زەربىسى
ئەڭ چوڭقۇر روھ دوزىقىدىن بۆسۈپ كىرگەن
بۇ راست:
كۆزلىرىم كۆزلىرىڭگە ئۇچراشقاندا
ھەقىقەت يۇقۇرى ئاۋازدا جىمجىت سۆزلەيدۇ
ھەمدە نە قايتىش...

ئە.ئو تەرجىمىسى

[Fatimah Abdulghafur @FatimahAbdulgh2]

When fire meets fire

Days of rain
Are now the scenery of far away land
Time for the blaze:
A pang of explosion
Intruding from soul’s deepest hell
This is true:
When my eyes meet yours
The truth speaks aloud silently
And there is no return ...

- Fatimah Seyyah

[Fatimah Abdulghafur @FatimahAbdulgh2]

To a thirsty river, meandering never ends.

ئايدىڭ يۈرەك
ئەخمەتجان ئوسمان

ئۆستۈم، بىر قۇياش بىر قۇياشتىن
تاكى ئۇلار جاھازلاردا تىقىلىشىپ قالغۇچە، توزانلىق ...
چالنىڭ بالىلىق ئاسمىنى تېخى ھايات، ئۇنىڭ قاراڭغۇسى
يۈرەك ھېلىھەم ئايدىن يورۇپ تۇرار

تەرجىمىدە پاتىمە سەيياھ

[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

A MOONLIT HEART

I grew up, sun by sun
until they were crammed on the shelves, dusty
The old man still has the child’s sky, its darkness
and the heart is still lit by the moon

— Ahmatjan Osman

[Fatimah Abdulghafur @FatimahAbdulgh2]

بىرلىك
ئەخمەتجان ئوسمان

ئۇچۇش قۇشنىڭ ئويى -
دەپ ئەسلىدى شاخچە
كۆككە بېقىپ نېمىلىكىم ھەققىدە خىيال سۈرگىنىمدە
يېقىندىكى دەرەخ، يىراقتىكى بوشلۇق ۋە ئارىدىكى قۇش ئىدىم

فاتىمە سەيياھ تەرجىمىسى

[Fatimah Abdulghafur @FatimahAbdulgh2]

تولۇق ھېكايەت
ئەخمەتجان ئوسمان

پۇتلىرىڭنى يەردىن ئاجراتمىغىن
بېشىڭ ئاسمانغا تاقاشسۇن
ئېيتتى ئانا ھېكايىتىنى تۈگىتىپ

مانا بۇ تولۇق ھېكايەت

ئۆمرۈم ئاخىرلىشاي دېگەندە
مانا شۇنداقمەن:
پاتقاققا ئارىلىشىپ كەتكەن نۇر.

فاتىمە سەيياھ تەرجىمىسى

[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

What is it?
No one knows!
yet it is the source of all knowledge

— Ahmatjan Osman

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[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

WHICH

It is that
that WHICH in every direction
in everywhere...
yet it doesn’t take the direction
or the place of anything
It is a pronoun without a noun
yet it is the origin of every name
No one can define it
nor can it define itself
for it has no self

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[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

The light passes, so does the warmth
Smoke and ash remains...

— Ahmatjan Osman
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[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

CONTEMPLATION OF A STRAW

Straw is worthless when it is a straw
When it burns, it is the fire we used to worship
Straw is profane as smoke and ash
yet it’s sacred as light and warmth
It burns to be
in the Being
It sacrifices for the profane and sacred
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[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

This is what I insist on, but in another way: Any appeal to the Chinese occupation authorities in East Turkistan is tantamount to recognizing them and cooperating with them in some way.

[Julie Millsap @JulieM615]

Let’s be clear: there are people engaged in “Uyghur activism” whose clear aim is to downplay the severity by constantly appealing to the ccp as a legitimate government. This type of messaging & activity should be recognized for what it is: a subtle form of collaboration.

[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

THE WHOLE STORY

Don't let your feet leave the ground
let your head touch the sky
Mother said after completing her story

This is the whole story

After my lifetime is almost over
and here I am:
the light wades in the mud

— Ahmatjan Osman

[Fatimah Abdulghafur @FatimahAbdulgh2]

Ahmatjan Osman’s poems are full of jewels and wonders. As famous as he is, his identity as a poet is still a mystery and his poems are not well understood among Uyghurs. Let’s enjoy one of such poems from his early 20s.

********************
The poet
Ahmatjan Osman

[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

@MamtiminAla Sigmund Freud divides the person into three: the id, the ego, and the superego. Plato also points to three: instinctive, emotional and mental strength. Is the ego you are talking about is one of these three?

[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

@MamtiminAla Isn't the ego the very self in your phrase "our self-mastery"?

[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

SYNTHESIS

Flight is a thought of bird -
this is what the twig recalls
as I twigged looking up at the sky what I am
I am the near tree, the distant space, and the bird in between

— Ahmatjan Osman

[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

just as a bird makes us perceive
what cannot be perceived
with its flight
the sky ...

When the truth is among us
we are capable of reflection or burning

⁃Ahmatjan Osman
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[Ahmatjan Osman @AhmatjanO]

WHEN THE TRUTH IS AMONG US

Just as a painter makes us touch
what cannot be touched
with his colors
the light and the shadow ...

just as a poet makes us feel
what cannot be felt
with his words
the self and the silence ...
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