Issued Works

The application of disciplined endurance.

Whosoever writes a book, then he has put his mind on a tray and offered it to people. – al-Khaṭīb

Correspondence

Scribe

Abdushakur
Designated Scribe for Ṣaḥīfat al-Ṣabr.
Operating between NYC and the UK.

About

Art After Submission is the documented transcription practice entrusted to Abdushakur. This is a practice of disciplined endurance.Each work emerges through thousands of deliberate marks, accumulated over hours, days, and months. The process is repetitive, methodical, and exacting. No composition is planned. No image is pursued. Form is allowed to appear only through sustained attention.The work does not express. It does not narrate. It does not perform. It proceeds.What appears is not image, but imprint. Not representation, but boundary impressed.The self is suspended. The hand continues. The pattern accumulates.This is not invention.
It is continuation.Each work is a record of time under pressure.
Of patience under demand.
Of attention under constraint.

Method

No digital tools.
No mechanical aids.
No shortcuts.Only hand, pen, and paper.The technique is deliberately limited. Each mark is nearly identical. Anonymous. Necessary. The process admits no flourish and no signature. The hand is reduced to function. The work advances through compliance with obligation.There is no gesture.
There is no display.
There is only endurance.

ISSUANCE

Each work is issued, recorded, and archived.
All works are finite, documented, and non-repeatable.This is not production.
This is a trust enacted.

Origin (Context)

This practice is governed by Islamic legal constraint.The method is shaped by the Qur’ān and Sunnah. Figural representation is rejected. Expressive autonomy is refused. The right to invent freely is surrendered.This is not an aesthetic choice.
It is a legal one.The discipline proceeds from obligation, not preference. The limits are not negotiated. They are accepted.The form is not symbolic.
The restraint is not thematic.
The submission is procedural.The work does not depict.
It does not interpret.
It does not imagine.It complies.

Archive Statement

This archive exists as a permanent record of disciplined endurance, of submission maintained over time, of attention sustained under limit.The work is only complete at death.
Judgment belongs to Allah.