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Watch the grown ups all twirling with the clock throughout the day. Watch them spinning through the hours while the time hands tick away. They talk and grip the world, as they would catch a falling knife. Reality deceives them ’neath amusing games of life.

— Dawud Wharnsby A Different Drum (2004)

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Learning from a man who learned all he learned from another, can lead you to a safe place, but destroy your sense of wonder.

Blue Walls and The Big Sky (1995)

A busy buzzing bee is a lot like me, it works and it lives in community.

A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden (2011)

Hope as rich and green as the trees of an oasis.

Colours of Islam (1998)

I don’t like to belong to one religious community as I don’t want people to feel excluded from asking for my help or learning with me.

Inspiration comes from many places — experiences, places, people, books, and the work of other artists.

The Sounds of Taqwa (2006)

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