The Dervish's Trinkets

About this book

Between the alleys of longing extending in hearts, and the distances of mystical emotion the walkers toward truth cross, the book "The Dervish's Trinkets" by poet Ahmed El-Saman appears; as a literary retreat gathering the psyche's fragments and the spirit's serenity. This work is no mere Egyptian-vernacular poetry collection, but a unique human state, embodying the eternal struggle between reality's fractures and souls' soaring in purity's kingdom. The "dervish" takes us on a journey beginning at the hesitant self's thresholds, where pain "spreads" in hearts and dreams get lost amid illusions, to progress with us through patience's stations, touching old houses' purity and the past's blessing we missed in modernity's crowd. The words' sweetness manifests in the ability to dive into the sea of "grace," where the poet catches people's aches to turn them into hymns of love and prophetic praise, washing readers' souls from the days' turbidity. Within its ninety pages, you will find a soul resembling you; at times screaming with letdown's bitterness and fake love stories' failure, at others whispering contentment and certainty at the Creator's door. It is a wondrous mixture of "trinkets" holding joy-beads and sorrow-stores, written by "the rose-water pourer" who still searches for his watering in the dervishes' presence. "The Dervish's Trinkets" is an open invitation to reclaim our goodly innate nature, and to believe that behind every sea Moses crossed without a path, there is a relief awaiting the patient ones who whet truth's swords with love and feeling.