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UMR the Poet

Poet and content creator

UMR the Poet, known as just UMR on Instagram, is a poet, thinker, and ghostwriter from Leicester in the UK who built a personal brand around his writing and charity work. He describes coming back to Islam after a low point in his life and has since traveled to study with scholars in Morocco, Senegal, and Mauritania. He is a friend of Ibrahim Shareef and an advocate for silencing the ego and leading with honesty.

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Appearance on The Barakah Blueprint

Episode 27How a Suicide Attempt Led Me Back to Islam, with Omar Sadik the PoetIbrahim Shareef sits down with UK poet, thinker, and ghostwriter UMR the Poet, who shares how a near suicide attempt in a bathroom became the turning point that brought him back to Islam. The conversation traces a single running theme: the ego is the root of nearly every harm, and the more you obey its whispers, the blinder you become to the reality that everything is already obeying Allah.

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