The Follower of Christ, the recording project of Christian singer and composer Farukh Abdullayev, is set to release his new single, "HOLY," on all streaming platforms on July 3, 2026. As with his previous releases, the song was first shared with family, friends, and the online community on Instagram and YouTube ahead of its official release.

The single takes shape around a series of questions. "Who is holy but God?" Farukh asks. "Can any one of us be holy? Can a group of people declare themselves holy?"

Those questions, he says, sit at the heart of "HOLY." He describes the song as being about reflection — "reflection within ourselves on the things that are good from our Creator, who made everything good, and the things that are of evil, planted by the enemy ever since the days of the garden." It is about "realizing how much judgment we place on ourselves and on others," he explains, "and how this desire to judge continues to separate us from God and from one another."

"But are we holy?" he asks. "Are we righteous? Are we good enough to be judges?"

Farukh turns to scripture. "The Lord said, 'Do not judge, and you will not be judged,'" he notes, even as "the world we live in constantly pushes us to judge — to judge ourselves, to judge the people around us." Against that, he points to a different call: "Jesus calls us to be merciful, to be loving, to be the peacemakers of the world. 'I want mercy, not sacrifice,' the Lord says."

The production was built to mirror that message. Farukh says he wanted "HOLY" to reflect "the glory of God displayed in the real world — not the concrete jungles many of us have grown accustomed to, but the beauty of creation itself, and what remains of it." Heavy guitars are mixed to "roll like thunder across the mountains," he says; the synthesizer "spans the full spectrum — from the lightning strike to the shockwave that follows," and the bass guitar "echoes the movement of the earth."

At its core, the song is a lament and a prayer. "The Lord's creation has suffered greatly because of our greed," Farukh says. "The earth groans beneath our feet." The forests, rivers, and mountains, he writes, "long to be renewed, as does everyone who sees the injustice and the inequities of the world of the flesh." "HOLY," he says, is "my prayer that the Lord would restore what has been broken and revive His church — not the worldly institution with its hierarchies, but the living body of believers who have faith, knowing that good overcomes all evil and that darkness, no matter how much of it, will not overcome the light." He adds simply: "I pray the revival of the church is near."

Like everything he has released, "HOLY" was written, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered at Farukh's "little cabin in the woods, away from civilization.”

"From my home to yours, I offer 'HOLY' for the glory of God, who revealed Himself to the world about two thousand years ago," Farukh says. "All glory to Jesus. May His name be hallowed on earth as it is in heaven. May this song bear much good fruit. God bless you!"