Trilling Water
Trilling Water Knowing nothing of the comings and goings the doors and points of departure knowing nothing of You except what You willed we would recite knowing only about myself what You have revealed
Excerpt from ‘The Road to Tarim’
The day before my journey I prepared everything that I needed and gathered every cent I had. My concern was that my ticket was paid, but I only had R7,000 and a few rand in
For the Love of Love
“We have reduced love, this cosmic divine force, to a small sliver of its full potency. Nowadays when we speak about love, we almost exclusively refer to romantic love. But for the mystics, love is
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, A Sufi Beatnik Poet For Our Time
THREE POEMS BY DANIEL ABDAL-HAYY MOORE (1940 - 2016) SIREN AT NIGHT Why is it a siren at night sounds like someone crying for help or else despairing of help? Why is
The Man of Song
Decades ago, a shaykh of the Darqawa tariqa (Sufi order) instructed one of his muqqadims (deputies) to go to South Africa with the Diwans of Shaykh Muhammad ibn al Habib because the Zulu people love
Meknes, Morocco: 1973
After my first Ramadhan as a Muslim in London, I was invited to visit the zawiyya of our Shaykh in Morocco. I travelled alone, flying to Tangiers and then took the train. The little station