Adli Yacubi
Cape-born writer weaving memory, tasbīḥ, and resistance. Creator of Rabbānī scrolls & The Road to Return. I write where the sacred meets the everyday — in Cape idiom, longing, laughter, and the rhythm of remembrance.
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The Mouth of the Reed
We were younger then.
The Cape wind took our words
and pushed them back into our mouths.
We sang with others.
There was room in the song
for the frightened.
Kromboom.
A bridge remembers
the weight of a crossing.
Apartheid had...
The Root That Is Never Named
An Absence That Teaches
I noticed something that would not let me go.
In all my years circling the Qur’an — studying fiqh, learning Arabic, sitting with the language of uṣūl — I realised that the word aṣl (root, origin, foundation) do...
The City as Classroom
My mother sometimes returned from preparing a young woman for burial and said:
Ek het haar mooi toegevou, my kind. Sy was nog jonk. Ek het vir haar ’n paar roosblare ingesit.
I folded her beautifully, my child. She was still young. I plac...
South Africa’s Story Is Not Over
I understand the fear.
I understand the disappointment,
the anger,
the exhaustion.
I see the poverty.
I see the unemployment, the corruption, the crime and the suffering endured by ordinary people.
To speak positively about South Af...
The Seven Words I Never Forgot
1. A Pamphlet at the Gate
I was nineteen when I returned to Livingstone High School to complete my matric.
The year before, in 1983, I had left Cape Town to attend As Salaam at Braemar, near Umzinto in Natal. But the school collapsed,...
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Cape-born writer weaving memory, tasbīḥ, and resistance. Creator of Rabbānī scrolls & The Road to Return. I write where the sacred meets the everyday — in Cape idiom, longing, laughter, and the rhythm of remembrance.
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