Maqamat of Passion

About this book

Between the realm of the spirit and the clay of the earth.. a journey into the "Maqamat of Passion." Have you ever wondered where the boundaries of the "self" end so that the "other" begins in you? In his new book "Maqamat of Passion," Mohamed Bouchaftas offers us no mere poems, but opens for us eight doors, the stations of ecstasy the heart crosses on its journey from the silence of darkness to the light of eternal union. The work begins with a mysterious tone, a whisper, like the confessions of a sad reed flute weeping over the ruins of blissful endings, where passion is a prayer with no qibla, and tears the ablution of hearts wearied by loss. As the pages follow, the style ascends with the reader toward inspiring radiance; we move from "the Station of Absence" teaching us that loss is no void but a window inward, arriving at "the Station of Annihilation" where words dissolve and time stops, every pulse a remembrance and every tear a rosary. This book is an invitation to every thirsty soul seeking its meaning in the details of things, in the light's fracture on the cup, and in the tear of a child gazing at the sky.