• Author: Khalil Al-Wafi
• Publisher: Fadaat Publishing House
• Year of Publication: 2025
• Number of Pages: 544
• Subject: Poetry

The devoted one became as gloomy as the night, restless in the confusion of daylight. Existence was no longer a sign of his faith; his certainty no longer terrified him, nor did his doubt bewilder him. Nothing could satisfy him. He could no longer see the simplicity of submission in the apparent, nor the collusion of eager interpretation in the hidden.

Crowds of phantoms gather at the edge of the unseen, where absence tells the tale of twilight. Existence remains clearer than mirrors at dawn. A complex journey unfolds through cryptic signs and ancient paths, a siege mapping itself onto the scars of prisoners. Oppression traces the cries of barren deserts, and wakefulness becomes a lukewarm question. In this landscape, the soul expands, silence envelops a hidden temple, and ancient dust scatters from shrines, revealing a story that surges from the depths of wandering chasms to the finality of the tombstone.