“The best thing we can do
(for ourselves)
is be
The best thing we can be
(for our souls)
is empty
To allow Divine Breath
to fill in the empty spaces
to remember us
to express to us
to speak to us
to create us
to annihilate us
to speak through us
to express through us
to remember Him
through us
till we are empty spaces
and all that is left is Divine Breath”
from “Human Beings”
-Abbas Mohamed
in A KALEIDOSCOPE OF STORIES
Muslim Voices in Contemporary Poetry
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