Two Poems: Habibi & Al-Mawt

Let’s voyage to the land        where love is an adhan

calling people to solat

Modesty is not an artist’s job

By Abdul Hadi Haleemah Is that the creedThat your hearts accede?Scurvy proverbs from your sayingsAgainst my religious obligationHijab is but a piece of clothWorn to make a worth. And do you think it bars me frommirth making momentsOr fostering favours for fashion?Nay! You prate!I choose this independence. It’s that with which I am adornedAnd modesty […]