Facing Mecca / Poems

Moore, Daniel Abdal-Hayy

ISBN 10: 0578146371 / ISBN 13: 9780578146379

Editore: The Ecstatic Exchange, 2014

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Titolo: Facing Mecca / Poems

Casa editrice: The Ecstatic Exchange

Data di pubblicazione: 2014

Legatura: paperback

Condizione: Very Good

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As Muslims who pray the five obligatory prayers each day of our lives, when able we orient ourselves toward Mecca, located in what is now Saudi Arabia, from wherever we happen to find ourselves, farflung in some island fastness, or out in desert dunes, or in a New York hotel room. There are boat people who tie up and face Mecca right in their boats, saintly Moroccan merchants who fling their carpets down just behind the counter where they sell embroidery thread to very particular customers (I am a witness). We can’t get too “far out” when we stop to face Mecca five times and more a day, or in the solitude of our nights, knowing the plumb line goes straight through to the next world, and its rising to the holy heights.