# In the Name of Mashouq

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2020/04/07/in-the-name-of-mashouq/
- Published: 2020-04-07T01:48:45+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Syed Tahir Ahmad Rufai[⌊A sample cover of the book: black coloured handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/In-the-Name-of-Mashouq-scaled-1.jpeg)
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Pages:** 80 **Year of Publication:** 2020 **Price:** Rs 150 **ISBN: **978-81-944057-
8-8 (9788194405788)

_**About the Author**_
 Syed Tahir Ahmad Rufai, 21, is a Sufi poet from the valley
of Kashmir. Tahir has been a writer since the age of 10 when he started in Urdu 
but with time added English poetry to his list. He belongs to the family and Sufi
order of Rufai, due to which his poetry revolves around Sufism.

Tahir completed his high school graduation in 2016 and pursued his Bachelor’s in
Psychology from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, which he completed in 2019. He 
has previously published a novella named _The Flying Sparrows_ in 2017.

_**Teaser**_

_61_

Your skin is too fragile
 I’m afraid you’ll break You have been fostered Like sunshine
raises roses Step back and come along Inside a little chest of poems Cover your 
skin with mine It has already been bruised I’ve been cut and torn I was not loved
by them My love resides far away Inside my very chest My skin will cover you From
what is to come You wear it till you grow Heroic and valiant I might be away from
you But my skin will shelter When a graze makes you cry I’ll cry with you For the
skin is mine I’ll feel your pain too

You can read more about the book in **[The Telegraph](https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/three-poets-three-different-sensibilities-one-calcutta-based-publisher-and-one-common-theme/cid/1751880)**.

_**Contents**_
 66 poems