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Poetry Book Reading: Scud Missile Blues by Amal Kassir

The Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Ecstatic Poetry Prize 2024

Friends that were… a poem by Amir Khusrau

Amir Khusrau - Friends that were

“I have turned away from all creation” by Rabia al-Adawiyyah

A poem by Rabia al-Adawiyyah

My Father’s Tongue by Amal Kassir

"My Father's Tongue" by Amal Kassir

Sufi Poetry Book Reading: Love is a Traveller and We are its Path

Love is a Traveller and We are its Path - Sufi Poetry Book reading by Medina Tenour Whiteman

“Billowing” by Medina Tenour Whiteman

Billowing by Medina Tenour Whiteman

Reciting Qaddish by Iljas Baker

Reciting Qaddish

Pause for Poetry – in Conversation with Yahia Lababidi

Pause for Poetry Yahia Lababidi

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Reaching us beyond the speed of light, this is the

Reaching us beyond the speed of light, this is the speed of love. As photons brace the extremity of its transition, depicting nothing close to a thousand words, pictures are painted across the fragments of the broken and become endless galleries of mercy and, passion and hope. Each drop of ink trickles across my tender soul, coloured in love that I could spend a thousand years gazing upon. Or 1400 years or beyond. Because this is heart to heart. My internal candle converts to a roaring flame with just the utterance of his name - that some dare say but with heads lowered and hands held upon chests.

- Asim the Poet
from Dawn of the First Spring
in A KALEIDOSCOPE OF STORIES
Muslim Voices in Contemporary Poetry

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Yearning for our Beloved in ‘chai cannot be made

Yearning for our Beloved in ‘chai cannot be made in a kettle - poems of diaspora and belonging’ by Juwairiah

“O Prophet of Allah! Your birth made the abstrac

“O Prophet of Allah!
Your birth made the abstract concrete
You brought the unreachable close
You the chosen one
Interpreter of the Universe
Mediator between
Slave and Master
The brightest star mirroring the Vastness”

from Peace Be Upon You
- Halee I Cosar
in the poetry anthology A KALEIDOSCOPE OF STORIES - Muslim Voices in Contemporary Poetry

Allahumma salli ‘ala sayyiduna Muhammad. 💚🤲✨

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from Light Steps - A Poem on the Seerah of Prophet

from Light Steps - A Poem on the Seerah of Prophet Muhammad ‎ﷺ by Ali Scully

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from Light Steps - A Poem on the Seerah of Prophet

from Light Steps - A Poem on the Seerah of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ by Ali Scully

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In Medina are illuminated traces and a place of ga

In Medina are illuminated traces and a place of gathering
Traces may fade away and be erased
But the signs of the house of sanctity with the minbar
of the guide who ascended it will not be effaced
There are clear traces and enduring signs
and his abode, within which are a mosque and prayer hall
Here are rooms in the midst of which a light from God
illuminating and igniting descended
These well-known places, their wonders by time not obliterated
Reappearing when faded
There the traces left behind of the Messenger and his time I recognised
and a grave where he is buried, in whose earth he is concealed
There I remained weeping for the Messenger,
Eyes and eyelids in mourning joined
Remembering the blessings of the Messenger,
which due to my grief I saw were innumerable
Consumed and bereaved by the loss of Ahmad
My soul continued enumerating the blessings of the Messenger
Not even a tenth of it all had I reached
But some of his virtues I praised
Standing weeping as long as I could
By the elevation of the grave of Ahmad
O grave of the Messenger, may you be blessed
Together with the land where the righteous one who was guided resided

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Join us on 31st August for this inspiring free onl

Join us on 31st August for this inspiring free online talk on the logic of love in Muhammad Iqbal & Rabindranath Tagore by Dr. Hina Khalid. Link in bio @lotetreepress . If you can’t attend live sign up for a ticket to receive a replay of the event. You can support our work by adding a donation to your ticket.

In this talk Dr. Hina Khalid will explore the theologies of two major philosopher-poets of the Indian subcontinent – Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). More specifically, she will focus on their understandings of love as a cosmic principle which binds the divine reality, the finite world, and the human being in dynamic and creative symbioses. We will see how, for both poets, love is not a fleeting fancy or a subjective impulse but constitutes the very heartbeat of creation itself.

Hina Khalid completed her BA, MPhil, and PhD in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral dissertation offered the first comprehensive comparative study of the metaphysical and aesthetic visions of Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). She is particularly interested in the possibilities of comparative theology across Islamic and Indic traditions, and in the ways that shared devotional idioms have formed in and across the Indian subcontinent.

The Muwashshah Poetic Form of Al-Andalus We are c

The Muwashshah Poetic Form of Al-Andalus

We are currently exploring the poetic traditions of al-Andalus in our poetry membership, focusing this month on the Muwashshah, which was a popular form of poetry that influenced European troubadour poetry, also spreading to North Africa and other parts of the Muslim world where it is still sung to this day. This month we are exploring the history, context and poetic form of the Muwashshah, and looking at a devotional Muwashshah written by Ibn Arabi.

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Amir Khusrau was an extraordinary figure from 13th

Amir Khusrau was an extraordinary figure from 13th century Delhi who made pivotal contributions to the development of South Asian poetic, linguistic, musical and mystical traditions. He was both a royal chronicler who wrote panegyric poetry and historical epics at the courts of successive rulers, and a devout disciple of Chistī Sufi master Niẓām ud-Dīn Awliyā, dying just six months after him and being buried next to him.

Although he frequented the courts of princes and sultans, he was interested in the circumstances and languages of the common people, and his work shows a love for the city of Delhi and the natural environment and flora and fauna surrounding it. His poetry experiments with combining the living poetic heritage of the Islamic world, which he was very well versed in, with the courtly and folk traditions of the land of his birth which lay within the Sultanate of Delhi. In this way he acted as a sort of cultural bridge, an iconic embodiment of the hugely creative cultural fusion emerging from the bringing together of the artistic heritage of South Asia and that of the Muslim world.

We explore the life and work of Amir Khusrau in the on-demand video “Amir Khusrau - the Father of Urdu Literature”, now available in our membership. Join us on our journey as we explore the poetic traditions of the Muslim world! Link in bio @lotetreepress

Amir Khusrau, born in the Delhi Sultanate in 1253,

Amir Khusrau, born in the Delhi Sultanate in 1253, is known as the Father of Urdu Literature and the Father of Qawwali. He is a cultural icon known for his legends, folktales, riddles and witticisms. His prolific poetry brought together the courtly and spiritual poetic traditions of the Muslim world with the cultural milieu of his motherland - this fusion and cultural exchange leading to new creativity and forms of expression. In this workshop we look at some of his work and then consider the possible synergism of combining our own disparate literary heritages and the multiple identities that we often straddle as Muslims in the west to write a piece of poetry representing cultural fusion.

Sign up to our membership for £5.99/month to access this workshop and more. Link in bio @lotetreepress

Join our membership for £5.99/month to access the

Join our membership for £5.99/month to access these lessons and more. Link in bio @lotetreepress

New on-demand session exploring the lives and vers

New on-demand session exploring the lives and verses of early Sufi poets together with their historical context, including the sources of early Sufi thought and the debates around the controversial statements made by some Sufis, now available in our membership. Join us on our poetry caravan as we explore the poetic traditions of the Muslim world! Link in bio @lotetreepress

We explore more about the life and verses of Rabi’a Al-‘Adawiyyah and other early Sufi poets in on-demand sessions in our membership. Join us on our journey through the poetry of the Muslim world! Link in bio @lotetreepress

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