The Things of This World
The things of this world have gone a remove while fasting as if through a kind of glazed window just out of reach which…
Fasting
A Fiery Glow in the Heart
Taste the nothing that isn’t and the nothingness that is How many giraffes could gallop through those words with their incredi…
Ramadan Sliverlight
Ah, almost speechless at the sweltering threshold of a long Ramadan fast, yet remembering not only Badr and its combatants whi…
‘Eid Poems: Ramadan Is Over…
RAMADAN IS OVER Ramadan is over, and I’ll miss its strange intensity. Dry mountains …
Ramadan Sonnet: What Sweetness it is
What sweetness it is, in a sea of bleakness, to prostrate in the prayer! The Prophet…
Lailat al-Qadir
Shaykh Abdalhaqq Bewley has transmitted this beautiful du’a for Lailat al-Qadir (Night of Power, among the odd numbered last t…
2 Poems from Ramadan Sonnets
RAMADAN ANGELS Ramadan angels crisscross the sky just above the earth on watch for fasters who lift up into other dimensions d…
Fifteenth Night of Shabaan
A ball of mercury slides down an incline into a pool reflecting all the starry heavens making a whispery inaudible splash A pl…