I am honored to have a short poem of mine — from a new anthology of Muslim voices — featured on the Cambridge Central Mosque poetry page.
If you are spiritually-inclined, you will find there are also many fine devotional poems from different backgrounds included in the anthology where my work is found (below).
Meantime, speaking of art that is concerned with the life of the spirt, here is ✨ a selection of my one-liners featured in another journal: Baha’i Studies✨
Because I have a built-in editor in me (read eagle's eye) I noticed a small typo in one of the aphorisms... Here’s correct version:
I hope you find something in this post useful or uplifting and that you have a safe and fun weekend 🙏
Beware of letting time pass you by without your having attained what people of fervor have reached in every time and place.
Do all you can to be open to the ‘spiritual breezes’ (nafahat) of your Lord, and do not be weak or lazy about this, lest there pass you by what has passed by so many people––and there is no strength nor power but through God!
If you want to be open to these spiritual breezes, then do not always follow what your ego desires and what is light for it; rather, follow what it does not desire and what is heavy for it, in order that it might traverse the path and harvest the fruits of its practices.
If someone is taken up with practices which do not increase him in vigilance, he will never meet the people [of God] nor be free of error, regardless of whatever else he may do.
–– Sheikh ad-Darqawi, Letters on the Spiritual Path, translated by T. Burkchardt (courtesy of Maryam KD)
