Writing comes from the heart. I felt I could give the world something, like Lewis Hyde said to the “gifted”, “to give something back”.
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He loved Rebecca. He loved her so much. But she was not a Muslim. And this is where his story faltered, shook, like a man standing in the commute, his whole word suddenly moving as he tries to hold onto something.
It was then I thought to myself that I could actually write. If my first attempt at prose writing got a lot of encouraging feedbacks and good reviews, then why not do this? So I did!
“Welcome daddy!” the twins chorused, huge smiles plastered on their faces. They noticed their father wasn’t cheerful like he would be whenever he returned from work, but it didn’t really bother them.
Moshudat Bello is the featured writer for the January / Jumada al-thanni Featured Writers Series on The Muslim Write. She is the third featured writer for the series. Read her poems: “Habibi” and “Al-Mawt.” The Muslim Write: How did you discover you were a poet? Moshudat Bello: Poetry began for me when nothing else made sense except the screaming silence. When many painful […]
Let’s voyage to the land where love is an adhan
calling people to solat
Some days you write like you created the craft and on others, you question if you even know how to bring to life a single line.
The few birds of this night sky
bear witness that there is no
other god except Allah; a
thought that lingers on while I
make a brief pause in my tilaawah.
Abdulafeez O. Olaitan is the featured writer for the November/ Rabi al-thanni Featured Writers Series on The Muslim Write. He is the inaugural featured writer for the series. Read his interview.
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The Read List No. 2
The second installment of The Read List where we will be sharing our favorite Muslim literature articles. This installment contains works from Muslim Culture, Muslim Impossible, Mahasin & Ariana, Dan Peterson and Shaheen Pasha.
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