
We are proud to announce the First Issue of Qalaam Al Qalbi is now online
Issue 1 Now Online!
Please forward your comments and suggestions and requests for advertising to
editor@qalaam-al-qalbi.com
Firstly we would like to extend our sincerest apologies, as we do not have a site currently rest assured much time will be spent on getting a site up to hi-tech standard to host our monthly magazine of Qalaam Al Qalbi, currently we are restricting our selfs to influential poetry and inshaAllah depending on the repsonses, we may further branch ourselves.
Qalaam Al Qalbi (Talk of the Heart) Magazine will be a full-color, glossy Monthly Online magazine headquartered from the UK. It Hopes to and aims to broaden perspectives on Islam and to provide a voice for Muslims especially the youth to articulate their concerns while establishing cross-cultural relations between Muslims and their neighbors and co-religionists. The majority of our readership is worldwide, however we have a significant presence in the UK and Europe and our voices are most often echoed on our home www.YaNabi.com.
The topics we shall and intend to cover in coming soon editions include Religion, Family, Mysticism, Law, Politics, History, Philosophy, Economics, Sociology, Fiqh, Psychology, Psychiatry, Health, Education, Current Affairs, Culture, Science & Technology, Media, Literature, Poetry, Art & Architecture.
Our Launch edition is consistent of poem’s put together, by a small team, we hope to build on this by judgeing on the responses we recieve and the postive feedback which shall InshAllah serve as encouragement for us to further progress in our work.
Why we are here:
The disinformation that often passes for erudition on Islam and the Muslim world is due largely to ignorance. However, the reality is that informed Muslim perspectives exist on a wide range of issues, but these views often remain outside the mainstream social, political and religious discourse. Instead media savvy experts, whether Muslim, non-Muslim, militant, or simply misinformed, are championed by an expedient mainstream media to educate the larger public about critical issues we all face. In reality many of these expert opinions fail to adequately represent the moderate, Muslim mainstream.
The irony of the situation is that reasonable, articulate, grounded and authentic voices exist within and without the Muslim community in the West. However, these voices remain outside the popular discourse because few forums exist that can bridge the divide. In a society that is so profoundly influenced by the written word, Muslims remain on the fringe. While our scholars continue to produce extremely vital publications, they are often specialized and outside the purview of the common reader. They speak often, but are generally heard by Muslim communities or specialized groups that are already familiar with their ideas and thoughts.
It is not that Muslims lack fresh ideas, but rather what we are missing is a forum to communicate existing ideas inside the broader cultural and political discourse. It is this forum that Qalaam Al Qalbi hopes to establish. There are few Muslim periodical publications editorially and stylistically strong enough to generate both Muslim and non-Muslim audiences. Qalaam Al Qalbi Magazine hopes to fill this void.
What our goal is:
Qalaam Al Qalbi neither seeks to become the authoritative voice of Islam , nor does it assume the role of presenting Islam to the Western world. In the best traditions of both historic communities, we seek to present ideas, discussion and thoughtful debate on the most pressing issues of our time. We invite any and all to participate in this dynamic process that we hope will, insha’Allah, unfold between the pages of Qalaam Al Qalbi.
Mainly we are just here to forward a message of love to all, irrelevent of creed and caste, our main aim is to create love and awareness in all our readers heart’s for Allah and His Rasool Sallal hualahi wasalam if we succeed in creating love in one heart our efforts have been paid off and Allah is the one who gives all Success InshAllah.
Writers
Letters to the Editor & Submissions
If you are interested in publishing something in Qalaam Al Qalbi Magazine, the easiest way to do so is to submit a letter to the editor in response to a published article. To do so, please see the guidelines below. To submit a full length article or essay, please see the submissions section.
Letters to the Editor: Qalaam Al Qalbi Magazine welcomes letters from its readers. Selected letters will be published in the next issue of the magazine. We welcome feedback, criticism, support and anything in between. And for your letters to be published, Please You must include your name and city of residence.
Qalaam Al Qalbi Magazine invites submissions of articles, essays, and poetry.
SUBMISSIONS: Qalaam Al Qalbi Magazine considers unsolicited manuscripts. A general familiarity with what we have published is the best guide to our needs and preferences. Manuscripts must be emailed to This email address editor@qalaam-al-qalbi.com, SUBMISSIONS should not exceed 3,000 words of prose.
MANUSCRIPTS should be accompanied by a cover sheet with the following information: title, category, word count, author’s name and e-mail address. A submission has a much greater chance for acceptance if it conforms to the following guidelines:
* Length between 1,000 and 2,000 words
* Limited or no use of jargon
* Limited use of arabic words (if the word can be translated, translate it)
* Non-academic or technical prose, do not assume readers have any special knowledge of what you are writing
* Do not use polemical language or arguments. Qalam Al Qalbi strives to publish essays and articles that are thoughtful and reasonable in nature.
Additionally, the following guidelines are also relevant:
* Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
* Never use a long word where a short one will do.
* If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
* Never use the passive where you can use the active.
* Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
* Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
POETRY GUIDELINES: The editors of Qalaam Al Qalbi Magazine read with interest and attention every poem submitted to the magazine, but due to space limitations, cannot publish all poems submitted. Our interest is in the broadest possible range of work: traditional forms and free verse, the meditative lyric and the "light" or comic poem, the work of the famous and the work of the unknown. We have long been committed to the discovery of new poets. Our one limitation is length; we are unable to publish very long poems, and authors should consult our issues of the magazine for precedents.
PLEASE send all submissions to editor@qalaam-al-qalbi.com