Yahia, thank you so much!
Oh I love this:

we must be careful what we give our attention to/summon. But, yes, daily miracles, winks and nudges to the ones who are open to receive...

And the synchronicity - my sister got a Lori message today while I apparently did not (or so I thought), but I got THIS from the great poet Yahia--I'm trying not to gloat here: little ol' Carol "who never did much of anything" got a message today from a brilliant and acclaimed poet; of course my sisters would not be impressed, but I am touched, and moved, and ever so grateful to hear from you! -- and I'm internalizing it/embracing it. THANK YOU!

Coincidentally, I've reviewed anthologies about Djinn, and have ever been intriuged by the good, the bad, and the Jin/Jinn/Djin (Scrabble Go accepts various spellings!). Sssh, I did not just confess to wasting time on the ScrabbleGo app....

My favorite Jinn anthology (Published March 2017 by Solaris) includes a story by Niel Gaiman. The Djinn Falls in Love (ed. Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin)

THE DJINN FALLS IN LOVE

Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends.
These are the Djinn. And they are everywhere. On street corners, behind the wheel of a taxi, in the chorus, between the pages of books. Every language has a word for them. Every culture knows their traditions. Every religion, every history has them hiding in their dark places. There is no part of the world that does not know them.
They are the Djinn. They are among us.

Those words are not mine. My reviews were all purged by Amazon in 2019, a thousand in all (seriously!) and if I didn't copy a review over to Goodreads, it is lost. I've asked Amazon to restore them. In vain. They said I violated Friends and Family guidelines. Which baffles me. Every author I read and love, alive or dead, is my FRIEND. Social media is how they pounce and devour a positive review of a "FRIEND" - no exceptions, not even for 'professional' book reviewers. But I digress.

Interesting thoughts from Seyyed Nizam al-Din Ahmed in the You-Tube video you linked - Black Magic, and how "occult" means "hidden," and I'm thinking the poet and his words is also employing a kind of sleight of hand and bedazzlement .... at this point, Sister Lori has long moved on to some topic of more interest or relevance to her. :)

(Lori denounced her daughter's deck of "herbal Tarot" cards as "works of the devil." Me, I do not look for guidance from astrology or tarot or Ouija boards, but I enjoy sneaking a peek now and then.)

The video reminds me of Al-Sijzi ( "Al-Sijistani") and how Western science with all its advances lagged behind the Greeks and the mathematical Muslims (and Aztecs with their astronomical wonders). I have not read much of Occultism, much less understood what little I did read, but that word "Jinn" leaped out at me and I confess I could focus on little else. That, and "What do we mean when we say 'magic'' -

Al-Sijzi was an Iranian[3] Muslim astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who proposed in the 10th century that the Earth rotates around its axis

Sorry this reply is SO LONG, and your time is limited, and you already know asll this stuff anyway, but:

Birds find their way into everything of mine: "The Truth About Owls," obviously, but also geese in "Seasons of Glass and Iron," a hummingbird in "Madeleine," the salted birds and the Roc in "The Lonely Sea in the Sky," a title's worth in "A Tale of Ash in Seven Birds." ---Amal El-Mohtar, in her blog, https://amal.substack.com/p/a-new-years-bird

I'd love to say I remembered her name off the top of my head. Nope. My memory is abysmal; names and titles fall out of my head faster than I can write them down for safekeeping in a journal.

Yahia, though, is a name I can remember. :) (Now if I can memorize and RETAIN some lines of your poetry. Consider that I cannot even recall Bible verses I'd memorized in childhood, and you know it's my faulty circuits and wiring, not the value of the words, that cause me to forget!)

Messengers from the genus, our You Tuber is saying.... yes, I've been multi-tasking, trying to hear him while typing out my own words words words. It's 36 minutes, 40 seconds in:

By now you've heard (and retained!) the whole thing. :)

Thanks again, Yahia.