Omar Tufayl and Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore met online before a deeply meaningful friendship formed. Listen to Omar's moving eulogy in an earlier 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 had the pleasure of meeting Sidi Abdul-Hayy at ISNA back in 2005. I had reached out to him to do an interview for my radio show on MeccaOne. We ended up hanging out that whole weekend! We kept in touch online through email and on iChat through the years. I introduced him to Youtube and helped him launch a channel showcasing his poetry and I’m so glad he did!

"A true gentle soul with a heart of gold. He will be missed. May Allah (swt) grant him the highest level of Jannah. Ameen."

Omair Ali

 

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.

"Abdal Hayy Moore – rahim’ulah was - and is  - a treasure trove: and a life-affirming gentleman.  Out of the three quarters of a century that he was traversing this planet, I’ve only had the blessing of knowing him for the past four years, as a mentee, in a collective of poets. So I feel a bit diffident in contributing to this memorial, as there will people who knew him much more intimately then I. We wish a world of love to Malika and his children, and his family.

"In our sessions with him he would often say to us that we should avoid platitudes and write with more latitude, and so out of respect for him and his family I don’t wish to fall into a platitude here but by Allah, Abdal Hayy touched my life indelibly in time I knew him. During the past few years, he has been a mentor, a critical friend, a tutor, a counselor, an antidepressant, a sage, and a surrogate elder relative. Whenever I meet people like Abdal Hayy, I feel like I found my tribe.  His poetry makes Islam feel like a ceremonious homecoming, he has made a massive cultural contribution to our community, and he has shown us a way.  We love this man deeply, by Allah."

Mohammed Anthony Whelbourne

 

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.

"Abdal-Hayy and I met in 1971, when we were hippies and before we became Muslim...and 43 years later found ourselves battling cancer."

Salama Evans

 

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.

Salama Evans and Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore first met in 1971, when they were both music-loving hippies. Much later in life, they found themselves battling cancer. Listen to Salama's tribute in the previous episode of this podcast show.

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 met Abdal-Hayy soon after I started the Muslims Writer's Guild in the late 80's. I met with him at the ISNA convention along with some other writers as there were few native English speaking Muslim writers at the time. He was a pioneer in producing very well-written, professional materials for Muslims. He was not preachy or dogmatic in his writing. He wrote some of the first good fiction for youth (Invincible Abdullah series) as well as being someone who beautifully expressed his love of Allah through his poetry. We know so much about the great Arabic poetry, it's nice to have our own."

Riyad Shamma

 

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.

Abdul-Rehman Malik and Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore were friends for over 20 years. Listen to Abdul-Rehman's tribute in the previous episode of this podcast show.

 

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.

 

"There was something about the poetry of Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore that was viceral and real. It was never esoteric or out of touch with the human condition. He was deeply in touch with his own self and how he was feeling. He was always very interested in what was going through the people around him. In the 20 years I knew him, I never spent time with him without feeling loved, listened to, supported and at times questioned and probed but in the most gentle, loving and beautiful of ways."

Abdul-Rehman Malik

Radio Broadcaster and SeekersHub Global Programs Director

 

 

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.

Poet and activist, Sukina Douglas of Poetic Pilgrimage first met Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore 11 years ago when they shared a stage at a mawlid in London, United Kingdom. Their friendship blossomed over the years. Sukina's tribute can be heard in the previous episode of this podcast show.

 

 

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.

"It's interesting when you lose people who were part of your global community. You may not have been in touch regularly but knowing that they were there - somewhere, present on Earth, meant something. Once they are gone, you miss them as an individual but more importantly, you miss what they represented. Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore was such a person, and I feel the void of having lost such an incredible, Western Muslim poet."

Sukina Douglas

Poet and Activist, one half of the duo Poetic Pilgrimage

 

 

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.