Ayisha Bhatti

There is a particular kind of dark that every searching soul knows. Not the darkness of despair. But the darkness of the one who is genuinely looking - who has felt the ache that no achievement has quieted, who carries a question that no circumstance has yet answered. It is in this darkness that a sound from afar acts like a light. A Sound From Afar is a contemplative journey through the interior life.
From the prayer beneath all prayers - the cry of the scattered soul asking to be brought home - through confusion, through the turning inward, through the grace that penetrates - to the returning. Written in the Sufi contemplative tradition. For every searching soul regardless of background or belief. If it reaches you in your particular darkness - if something in it acts, even briefly, like a light - then it has done what a sound from afar is meant to do. Listen.