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• 1. He that hunts religion for sensual strength shall be Aqta‘, the Actaeon deceived by Diyana’s crescent crown.

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• 2. In the Time of Turbulence, God gives you all you need behind your private door: perfume, prayer, woman.

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• 3. Feel sorry for the moderns, for they never know desire.

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• 4. Never, never, never, grow old in vain.

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• 5. Respect the young, for they are likely to be closer to the fitra than you.

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• 6. The worm of decay eats you while still you live; aspire, then, to the Pure Abode.

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• 7. If you want to make religion so flexible that it disappears, identify rigidity with piety.

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• 8. Let not liars sadden you; Truth will one day banish all shades.

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• 9. If you feel the yearning for God it is inevitable that your style of life will change.

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• 10. Whoever staggers upstream in this torrential age: for him blow the trumpet, play the drum!

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• 11. Fundamentalism is a rival monoculture.

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• 12. God is not subject to the rules of organised religion.

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• 13. Forgiveness and sadaqa remind you that you only gain when you give.

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• 14. Your quest for happiness is like seeking to grow taller; instead, love the Saga City, and happiness will be granted to you.

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• 15. Dhikr and fikr are not enough: only after supplication may the rain fall.

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• 16. Love God for what He offers you. Fear him in what He decrees for you.

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• 17. Beware the devil when he persuades you that you are worthless.

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• 18. Your indifference will spread indifference.

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• 19. Hindutva? It is the Mussulman, not the Hindoo, who has a sanatanadharma.

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• 20. That man only is to be envied who loves women for the right reasons.

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• 21. Pray at midnight, see the light. Think at midnight, die of fright.

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• 22. The Salafi begins with husn al-zann, the False Salafi with su’ al-zann.

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• 23. The Liber Asian is scritpure.

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• 24. The sage helps you repent by showing you that you cannot apologise to a mirror.

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• 25. Some see through others, others see others through.

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• 26. Do you dare to look at creation even though you know how thin a veil it is?

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• 27. Insan with the e-culture becomes insane.

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• 28. If you long to see God’s grace, work for the unity of the Muslims.

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• 29. Only by courtesy and compassion will you find your way to the starting-line.

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• 30. If you knew anything about the soul you would have infinite respect for the Prayer.

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• 31. Nobody dishonours the Salaf more than the False Salafi.

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• 32. The purpose of religion is to produce human beings who can be unconditionally loved.

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• 33. Intelligent Islam is not ‘liberal Islam’, it is the remembrance of the Names of Beauty.

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• 34. The Prayer is God’s caring hand held out to help and support you.

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• 35. How can you relate to the Absolute when you absolutise your own relativity?

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• 36. Do not underestimate your capacity to underestimate others.

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• 37. The absence of a Teacher is the worst excuse for sloth.

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• 38. Which do you love more: a financial windfall, or accurate criticism by a foe?

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• 39. No fatwa without futuwwa!

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• 40. Every passer-by has rights over you; excuse yourself by finding a way to love him.

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• 41. The world is not as it is.

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• 42. Go to the one who has gone.

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• 43. Hope, not humility, is the true alternative to pride.

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• 44. Love of the Shard is caused by tasharrud.

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• 45. Do not divulge any fact that will help nobody.

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• 46. Service is a purification. What more do you need?

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• 47. If you are not a giver and a forgiver you will be a grumbler.

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• 48. The False Salafism must recognise that emotion is not a dalil.

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• 49. Does your mosque welcome the sinful, and give them a space to reflect?

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• 50. Ibn Taymiyya is like Ibn Arabi: both are dangerously misread by fools.

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• 51. You will never be happy if you believe that religion exists to give you what you want.

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• 52. Da‘wa – you can never embrace a man if you clench your fists.

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• 53. Watch what you drop when you flee.

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• 54. Let not the bridal become your bridle.

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• 55. Orientalism wishes Islam to be Taymiyyan.

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• 56. Calligraphy is a drawing-out.

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• 57. You will not achieve enlightenment unless you lighten up.

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• 58. The world’s deeper battle is not between fundamentalism and fun; it is between holiness and hollowness.

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• 59. The narrower you make Islam, the fewer the people who will fit into it.

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• 60. Makkah has become Mecca.

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• 61. Capitalism’s fullest slogan: Arbeit macht frei.

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• 62. Riddastan fails, but Istihsania’s empire shall never be overcome.

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• 63. The use of reason is to diminish, not increase, the human content of the Law.

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• 64. If you forget that the world is always dissatisfying, you will always be dissatisfied.

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• 65. Revere the one whose nature is to love the saints.

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• 66. To the extent that Islam has holiness it has Sufism.

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• 67. The Salaf did not translate hadiths into English.

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• 68. You crave not paradise, but only your image thereof.

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• 69. Nature retreats in dismay from our cities; let us learn from her.

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• 70. Empiricism? If the world is disenchanted, we will be disenchanted with the world.

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• 71. Your doom is in your denial, just as Pharoah found his doom in de Nile.

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• 72. Modern man is a candle that achieves everything except burning.

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• 73. You are more likely to become what you crave than to achieve it.

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• 74. Be a faster, not faster.

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• 75. The False Salafism is fed by misanthropy, which is fed by unhappiness.

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• 76. Atheism is like excrement: when enough builds up in the body, it has to come out.

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• 77. Huwa plus hiya equals hawa.

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• 78. In our age, futuwwa lies in training oneself to be strengthened by the sight of the jalal.

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• 79. This short journey is not to hurt us, but to allow us to recognise its source, and to sing for joy.

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• 80. Pain is to show you that life is authentic.

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• 81. ‘Divine law is strict, but it is not rigid.’ (Claude Addas)

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• 82. Why do you embrace anger with such readiness, when you know the suffering it brings you?

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• 83. In our time, if people thank you, it is likely to be because you have shown them a way to be greedy.

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• 84. Do not fight the one who angers your ego, for he is nothing but illusion.

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• 85. True Islam is only that which helps you celebrate the joy and passion of life.

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• 86. Men! Be shrewd, not shrewed.

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• 87. No kunst surpasses Unst.

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• 88. The main function of the façade which you work so hard to maintain is to bar you from seeing others.

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• 89. Begin the day with the knowledge that it is sacred.

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• 90. Should you seek the humanism of Islam, know that the maqams are casts of characters.

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• 91. Always attend the mosque of someone else’s ethnicity.

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• 92. Delaying prayers is not worth the effort.

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• 93. In the Yawning Gulf, the new Muslim is either pet or threat.

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• 94. Ascension is to become aware of the divine below and around as well as above you.

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• 95. Help every feminist, for Mother Nature is invincible.

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• 96. Qiwama does not mean protecting from above, but supporting from below.

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• 97. The False Salafism is not a method, it is a rhetoric.

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• 98. The English to the Native Australians: Give us your land, and in exchange we will give you the Church of England and Foetal Alcohol Syndrome.

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• 99. Hubby is either hubb or hubbub.

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• 100. First Islam meant goodness, then it meant rightness, then it meant distinctiveness.

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