Hikayat al-Ishq brings to life a tale whispered long before our time, a story of love carried by desert winds and etched in ancient script. At its heart is the spirited horse and the thoughtful hoopoe, two beings drawn into an eloquent exchange.

The horse moves through each painting with the force of yearning, bold and shaped by the restless language of the heart. The hoopoe arrives as a traveller across kingdoms, a keeper of forgotten truths, and once the trusted messenger between Prophet Sulayman and Queen Bilqis. Its presence carries the quiet authority of wisdom earned through distance.

Their dialogue unfolds across brushstrokes, a tapestry of ishq where pursuit meets understanding. As their stories intertwine, a single truth emerges: that love is neither conquest nor calm, but the fragile and eternal balance between motion and meaning, between seeking and finding, forever yearning, forever whole.