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  • Shikwa and Jawab-i-Shikwa
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    Shikwa and Jawab-i-Shikwa

    24 July 2025

    Allama IqbalReviewed by Abdul Hai Poets have long employed provocative language that divides their audience, generating both admirers and critics. What is particularly intriguing about this skill is that poets often withhold the true meaning of their work, allowing readers or listeners to construct their own interpretations. In this duality of meaning and interpretation, both the…

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  • De Puerto Rico To Islam With Love: A Collection of Poetry About Identity and Faith
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    De Puerto Rico To Islam With Love: A Collection of Poetry About Identity and Faith

    2 December 2023

    De Puerto Rico To Islam With Love: A Collection of Poetry About Identity and Faith By Wendy Díaz Reviewed by Hamzah Vargas “A New Minority Makes Itself Known: Hispanic Muslims” reported the New York Times in December of 2001 not long after the September 11 attacks began the ‘War on Terror’, an era in which…

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  • Poem from Guantanamo. The Detainees speak
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    Poem from Guantanamo. The Detainees speak

    19 August 2023

    Reviewed or something else Abdul Hai   “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.” Poem from Guantanamo. The Detainees speak The claim that the modern world has progressed and humanity has become civilized would be difficult for me to accept. How can I rationalise such a claim when places like Guantanamo still…

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  • The Leaf of the Neem Tree
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    The Leaf of the Neem Tree

    12 February 2022

    “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful” Reviewed by: Abdul Hai Before starting the review of Jamal Mehmood’s The Leaf of the Neem Tree, I would like to share what Imaam Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya Al- Suli (d.947) stated in his biography of the poet  Abu Tammam Ḥabib Ibn Aws …

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  • The Chain
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    The Chain

    29 July 2020

    “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful” The Chain Hesham Hauari Reviewed by Abdul Hai It is said that the famous poet Abu Tayyib Al Mutanabbi fled the battlefield and someone said to him, “Are you running away? Are you not the one who said,  الخيل والليل والبيداء تعرفني والسيف والرمح…

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