Category: Yaqoubi Poetry

“In the Shade of the Levant” is a collection of thirty-one poems dedicated to Syria and the Syrian people. They were written over the span of thirty-five years between 1980-2015. As a Syrian living in Syria and then having to leave Syria, Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi ...

In a remarkable and eloquent dialogue set in poetic style, Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi describes a debate between the Mu’tazilites and mainstream Sunni theologies. It is a rejoinder to a poem written eloquently in classical Arabic over a thousand years ago by Abu’l-Qasim Isma’il ibn ‘Abbad ...

Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi elaborates on the meanings of Imam Busiri’s masterpiece, al-Qasidah al-Burdah, the most celebrated and recited poem in the world. Every line of the Burdah is now expanded upon, with rare secrets now revealed. In conformity with the Divine praise of him (peace ...

Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi expresses in the most eloquent of ways his love and yearning for the Prophet of Islam ﷺ in an incredible masterpiece.

Coincidentally the Arabic is compromised of 256 lines, the same number as the numerical value of the Divine name ‘Nur’ ...

Aleyka, Alayka bi dhikr Allah, dhikri Allah ...