Poetry

Your heart is constantly yearning to express itself.

However, the question is

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Are you expressing or suppressing? 

Are you giving or are you withholding?

The Prophet ‎ﷺ said “The difference between the one who remembers Allah, and the one who doesn’t remember Allah is like the difference between the living and the dead.” 

We scribe our hearts on to paper in attempt to keep our hearts alive

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We write to better understand ourself, to remember our essence & why God is unfolding that which we are going through.

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"Those who know themself, know their Lord." 


In terms of writing itself,
in other words to get your heart to be able to be expressed and let out through a pen and paper, it all starts with intention.

The Prophet ‎ﷺ also said, “action are but by the intention and every man will have but that which he intended.”

So if you intend to Allah that you wish to use the blessing he’s given you to feel deeply in your heart pain or happiness, or whichever emotion, and to use the other blessing of being able to read and write, then ask Him to let you use those blessings to connect & understand to your heart by penning it which will allow you to understand & connect to Him more inshAllah
 

After intention, you are bound to get that which you intended based on the words of Allah’s Beloved ‎ﷺ.
 

I usually go to my poetry notebook whenever I’m feeling a feeling a lot stronger than any other emotion in my heart. Whether it’s missing someone or excited about the future or an experience with my connection to Allah or His Rasool ‎ﷺ. I go to the paper and pen it out. Don’t think of any rules. There are no rules when it comes to penning your heart. No rhymes, no full lines.

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Even if its just two words that come out from your heart to the paper, that is poetry. So long and until it comes from your heart, it is art.