The Song of the Human Heart: Dawn of the Dark Feminine in Islam
Islam is a ‘dark religion’ that belongs to the realm of The Dark, the primordial feminine aspect of God. The Dark is the other eye of God alongside the Light, across a face of a God that is nebulous and unknowable in our infancy as humanity.
The Song of the Human Heart: Dawn of the Dark Feminine in Islam, is an invitation to dance with the most chaotic and controversial aspects of Islam to map a faith that continues to be misunderstood and maligned to this day.
The Dark has been home to women long before Islam, and through Islam integrated the divine feminine as the seal of monotheism. The first book in a series, The Song of the Human Heart charts several key Islamic historical events through a metaphysical lens that plays with the non-linearity and fluidity Islam is known for.
From the story of migration known as Hijrah where all the natural world conspired to protect the Messenger to the incident of the Satanic verses that created a vulnerability in faith, to the Night of Power (Layla al-Qadr) when Islam was revealed into the heart of the prophet — Shireen Qudosi invites readers into an intimate conversation on ways that Islam is speaking to a distinctly feminine quality. We’re invited to a new understanding of Islam beyond Man’s Islam, and toward Allah’s Islam — to Islam of the Dark.
Islam is submission to the wilderness of God. We find peace in our own willing submission to a wilderness that is lush with a metaphysical reality that breaks the laws of time to create hyper-realities that can compress a thousand nights into one. At every turn, Islam is speaking to a wondrous multi-dimensional reality. Islam is science futurism, speaking to us in a language that hasn’t yet developed and still cannot completely be understood by the human mind. We have a jewel in our hands, a jewel worth understanding and worth protecting. Islam is the crown of monotheism, but the mysteries of the Dark Feminine aspect of God are the crown's jewel. Here lies faith that is cultivated in cooperation with God and Spirit.
Through The Song of the Human Heart, a complex portrait begins to form: The Dark, a pantheon of goddesses, an Islam born in the womb of earth, and seeds of a 1400-year-old faith beginning to germinate in the hearts of its women. Born in the womb of a cave, Islam came into the heart of a man who was commanded to read. When the final revelation was given to Prophet Muhammad, your religion was complete on that day. But — on this day, your faith is born. In the Dawn of the Dark, we’re invited to sing.
The Song of the Human Heart knits memoirs with history and myth to imagine a new story for the crisis we face as a collective around faith, identity, and belonging. The first of a series of songbooks offers the dissolution of identity in order to create something new by returning to something far older. Everything is pointing to the Dark.