Michael Sugich

Read Michael Sugich's moving tribute to Abdal-Hayy on the SeekersHub blog.

 

Throughout Ramadan, SeekersHub is paying tribute to the late Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, one of the most prolific and skillful poets of our time. Each day, a selection from Ramadan Sonnets will be read by a friend and loved one. To contribute, please email us.

Mohammed Yahya

 

Throughout Ramadan, SeekersHub is paying tribute to the late Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, one of the most prolific and skillful poets of our time. Each day, a selection from Ramadan Sonnets will be read by a friend and loved one. To contribute, please email us. 

See also Sidi Haroon Michael Sugich's moving tribute to Abdal-Hayy on the SeekersHub blog.

Tanya Muneera Williams

 

Throughout Ramadan, SeekersHub is paying tribute to the late Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, one of the most prolific and skillful poets of our time. Each day, a selection from Ramadan Sonnets will be read by a friend and loved one. To contribute, please email us. 

See also Sidi Haroon Michael Sugich's moving tribute to Abdal-Hayy on the SeekersHub blog.

Omar Mahmood describes the moment he first met Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore.

Throughout Ramadan, SeekersHub is paying tribute to the late Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, one of the most prolific and skillful poets of our time. Each day, a selection from Ramadan Sonnets will be read by a friend and loved one. To contribute, please email us. 

See also Sidi Haroon Michael Sugich’s moving tribute to Abdal-Hayy on the SeekersHub blog.

Omar Mahmood pays tribute to Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore in the next episode of this podcast.

 

Throughout Ramadan, SeekersHub is paying tribute to the late Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, one of the most prolific and skillful poets of our time. Each day, a selection from Ramadan Sonnets will be read by a friend and loved one. To contribute, please email us. 

See also Sidi Haroon Michael Sugich's moving tribute to Abdal-Hayy on the SeekersHub blog.

"I only met Sidi Daniel Abdal Hayy Moore once, as he was working his way through a UK tour and I happened to be with some people with whom he was intimately acquainted. Although we had never met before, he and his wife met me like old friends. My friend gave me a copy of his Ramadan Sonnets and having read his poems, I understood why his presence was so friendly, warm and nourishing.  Anyone who understands the human spirit like he did, could be an old friend, even to a passing stranger."

Amina Nawaz

 

 

Throughout Ramadan, SeekersHub is paying tribute to the late Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, one of the most prolific and skillful poets of our time. Each day, a selection from Ramadan Sonnets will be read by a friend and loved one. To contribute, please email us. 

See also Sidi Haroon Michael Sugich's moving tribute to Abdal-Hayy on the SeekersHub blog.

"Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore was my beloved friend, mentor and poetry teacher. We have lost so much, but he left so much behind for us."

Adam Kelwick

 

 

Throughout Ramadan, SeekersHub is paying tribute to the late Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, one of the most prolific and skillful poets of our time. Each day, a selection from Ramadan Sonnets will be read by a friend and loved one. To contribute, please email us. 

See also Sidi Haroon Michael Sugich's moving tribute to Abdal-Hayy on the SeekersHub blog.

Sidi Abdal Hayy and meeting him a few years ago deeply affected me. I had heard of him often for numerous years and never ever imagined meeting him or spending time with him. A few years ago a dear spirit Sidi Mohamed Zakariya the calligrapher mentioned that we should visit him when I was in the US and that he was more than willing to do so together.  Then on a book tour I wrote him and the meeting took place at Sidi Abdal Hayy's home.

His welcome, hospitality and sharing of wisdom were remarkable. The hours spent with him and his dear wife, the wide ranging subjects we talked about, reading poetry together, listening to his dear voice reading his words in person, spending  time in his writing space talking of his spiritual journey and work,  and visiting his library full of his written and artwork are memories that were mentally captured due to the impact of the visit and time spent in his company. Since then we corresponded as well as talked. His support, and creative acumen flavored every exchange.  I treasure every moment and every correspondence.  His voice and work are a legacy many of us will cherish and revere.

Here is a poem I composed a day after his passing and he will always, always be remembered with many prayers.

 

The Master of Silence and Verse

In memorium of Sidi Daniel Abdal Hayy Moore April 19, 2016 - a day after he reunited with The One

 

His bowed kufiyyah-covered head led us

each verse, letter enunciated with

mahabbah, reverence, khushu ‘, taqwa,

beloved to his tongue, to his very being

transporting the welcoming home

into a prayer niche filled with anwar

His Malika the queen of his heart,

queen of his soul joining in the binding prayer

quiet utterances, tasabeeh and salawat

concluding the prayer to The One

 

The slave of the Ever-Living, Abdal Hayy

cocooned in Divine Love

as he stood in his creative space filled

with his beloved work, art, music, books

adorned with images of spirits of light

sharing tales brimming with wisdom

smiling eyes alight with blessed, overflowing joy

tapping out music of words and songs

 

His maqam, his station

rising and ever clear to those blessed

to be in his sphere

his songs, words, silences

serving His Mahboub

His niyyat, intentions constantly set

infusing and permeating his inner horizon

reflecting the seeker’s journey

a seeker crossing lands afar and near

a seeker whose essence resides in sacred sites

a seeker soaring in the heavens of the unseen

a seeker delving the depths of asrar, mysteries

joining the Caravan of the Blessed.

 

Abdal Hayy immersed in the Light of the Ever-Living

Set free,

free,

free

 

Ecstatic eyes, euphoric spirit

forever encased in the arms

of The Merciful, Ever-Living One.

 

Nimah Ismail Nawwab

 

Throughout Ramadan, SeekersHub is paying tribute to the late Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, one of the most prolific and skillful poets of our time. Each day, a selection from Ramadan Sonnets will be read by a friend and loved one. To contribute, please email us. 

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"Abdal-Hayy Moore was a family friend who became Muslim at the same time as my parents. My first strong impressions of him were formed at the age of 8 or 9, acting in the wonderful and fantastical school plays he wrote for the Islamic school in Abiquiu, New Mexico, Dar al-Islam, into which he wove stories from the Islamic tradition for us, and put this all into rhyming couplets! His poetry has always been an inspiration, and I feel blessed to have been mentored by him more recently through his Ecstatic Exchange Poets group. May his poetry continue to reach hearts and minds and to perform its otherworldly alchemy, and may he be showered in mercy and baraka and blessed with the highest of stations with his Lord."

Rabia Spiker

 

Throughout Ramadan, SeekersHub is paying tribute to the late Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, one of the most prolific and skillful poets of our time. Each day, a selection from Ramadan Sonnets will be read by a friend and loved one. To contribute, please email us. 

See also Sidi Haroon Michael Sugich's moving tribute to Abdal-Hayy on the SeekersHub blog.

“I could pour my heart out to him and tell him the truth of who I was, without the fear of scorn or pity...nothing shocked him, he had been there and done that and was now floating the lotus position. I would just pour it all out and we'd have discussions that lasted for hours. He'd listen and engage me. He's scaled higher and travelled farther than I ever would...and yet, when we spoke, he made he feel like we were equals.”

Omar Tufayl

 

Throughout Ramadan, SeekersHub is paying tribute to the late Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, one of the most prolific and skillful poets of our time. Each day, a selection from Ramadan Sonnets will be read by a friend and loved one. To contribute, please email us. 

See also Sidi Haroon Michael Sugich’s moving tribute to Abdal-Hayy on the SeekersHub blog.