Echoes From The Divine:
An Anthology of Poems on the Qur’an

We are incredibly excited to unveil our much-anticipated SECOND community anthology, Echoes From The Divine. This was a community capstone service project spearheaded by a group of our 2025 Writing Residents, as part of their residency: Sara Farhat, Ahmed Ayoub, and Eiman Bushra, assisted by Tehreem Khalid and Mariam Ali.

Currently, this book is available to purchase in the U.S., and the U.K. using the link below, as well as Canada, Australia, and the rest of Europe. House of Amal is unable to provide specific links for international purchases though a quick web search should show you if it is available in your area. As always, we request that you refrain from purchasing this book on Amazon, and instead purchase it from a local bookseller. We have boycotted Amazon and request that you do too, for the sake of our Palestinian brethren and to support local booksellers, whom Amazon has consistently put out of business.

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In a world where Qur'ans gather dust on shelves and the divine command "Iqra" — "Read" reverberates across centuries, Echoes From The Divine: An Anthology of Poems on the Qur'an emerges as a luminous response to the call that first descended upon the Prophet Muhammad. This profound collection of 30 poems—crafted for the 30 parts of the Qur'an—represents a sacred reunion between the pen and the Divine Word, mending the fractured bond between reading and writing. Each poem is a spiritual pilgrimage through the Qur'an's luminous landscape, serving as a "devotional murmur, a contemplative echo, a gesture of nearness," inviting readers to sit with the Qur'an rather than merely explain it. The collection transforms poetry into a "mihrāb of contemplation," where the inward self turns toward the Divine and the soul's deepest longings find expression in the rhythm of revelation . . . Echoes stands as a testament to the enduring intimacy between revelation and the receptive heart-a quiet yet resonant act of devotion that silences the clamor of forgetting and reminds us that the Qur'an is not a relic to be revered from afar, but a living voice calling us near. In these pages, the poets reply to the first command with a resounding declaration: "I am one who reads."