Mustafa signs to Jagjaguwar and shares new single, "Imaan"

""Imaan" is a love song between two people in search of God and purpose," Mustafa explains. "It’s about longing for all that we don’t have evidence of. Two Muslims journeying through their love of borderless Western ideology and how it contradicts with the modesty & devotion in which they were raised. ‘Imaan’ sonically represents this tussle too - the Sudanese strings and Egyptian oud woven into the bed American folk chords and drums. This tapestry, this collision is the song, is the romance, is the person Mustafa is. How it’s never enough, or too much. The song sits in the grey that people of faith are afraid to live in, but identify with. It’s about the way faith swings beneath Mustafa and Imaan like a rope. How cultural tension and bias and racism can inform and dismember romance.”

"Imaan" comes alongside a music video directed by Mustafa Ahmed and Nabil Elderkin that stars Imaan Hammam and creative direction from Ramy Youssef. The single is his first for new label Jagjaguwar and follows his 2023 single “Name of God” and his critically acclaimed 2021 project When Smoke Rises.