"Although alone, the lover is never lonely, "
"Forever hidden with the Beloved."
Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207-1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets. [...]
Transmitted from the Prophet Muhammad, "Al-Jawshan-al-Kabir" is one of the prayers most frequently recited by Muslims; its contents have deep meanings, its expressions are elegant, and various hadiths relate the rewards that one may receive in this world as in the hereafter for reciting it. The Arab[...]
Kabirs poesi kan beskrivas som missionerande kärleks-lyrik, som uppmanar till begreppslös vördnad inför det Ouppnåeliga Ena. Hans förståelse av verkligheten är att den är förgänglig och oordnad, därmed overklig. Poesins uppgift är att genom förblivande ord teckna den empiriska världen[...]
Graou tycker om att vara ensam och sova i solen ... tills en dag då ett möte förändrar allt! (från 3 år)[...]
When Ibrahim Essa completed The Assassination of the Big Man in 1999, no-one wanted to publish it. As far as the Egyptian media was concerned, Essa was persona non grata: he wasn't allowed to write, and the State had closed Al-Dustour, the newspaper of which he was Editor-in-chief, and forbidden him[...]