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Poetry comes of out silence and yearns for silence.

“As a Muslim, I am taught that to oppress another is to dishonour the divine. That justice is a sacred trust. And that peace without dignity is a false peace.” An essay on Gaza by poet Yahia Lababidi. overland.org.au/2025/06/those-…

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is to give light must endure burning. —Viktor Frankl

My latest essay, “The Silence that Saved a Beloved Scholar”, a meditation on Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s crisis of faith and the spiritual retreat that transformed him. Published in Islamic Horizons (July/August 2025).

Thoughts that come on doves' feet guide the world. #Nietzsche

‘When the words in the city are full of savagery and lies, nothing speaks louder than the unwritten poem.’ — George Steiner, Silence and the Poet

Thank you, NSU Art Museum for a culturally-enriching day at the #museum #art #Florida

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog! Emily Dickinson #poetry

#Art by Ellen Jantzen

The Wandering Jew, finding a home, created the Wandering Palestinian. One people’s return, another’s exile.

It is encouraging to see that one year after its publication, my #Palestine Wail is still receiving kind reviews Thank you, Montreal Review of Books , for this pleasant surprise 🙏🏼✨ mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/palest… #Gaza #booktwt Thanks, too Daraja Press for unfailing support 🇵🇸

Grateful to The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social for publishing my essay on Hugo’s rare openness to #Islam—a literary bridge between East and West. 👉 themarkaz.org/victor-hugo-an… #VictorHugo #culture #Literature #France

Writing is a form of imposture: I’m not at all sure I am anything like the person I seem to a reader. E.B. White

With friends like these who needs enemies… #FourthOfJuly

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. — Karl Kraus #writing #quotes

.Hamza Yusuf speaks at Cambridge Mosque : youtu.be/RX04AeT7eik?si… #Islam #AbdalHakimMurad #Inspiration #ethics

"The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." — Fred_Buechner

It is the job of #poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. Stephane Mallarme