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• The saint is he whose presence makes you love the Prayer.

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• In the MadeleineWhere the sun don’t shine,Ancient Rome prevailsThough the gods are more benign.

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• Chauvinism is not a hal, it is a halitosis.

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• Nothing is more pessimistic than a naïve belief in progress.

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• Spouses are traditional in order to be saved by gratitude. Spouses are modern in order to be saved by themselves.

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• Kufr: to see the sun setting, and to do nothing about it.

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• Is the Beast of Divorce coming? Husbands: respect her wants. Wives: respect his dignity.

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• The beginner feels gratitude for the rukhsa in his mind. The advanced seeker feels gratitude for the rukhsa in his heart. The saint never takes the rukhsa at all.

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• Are women ambiguous? It is the muhkamat which are the Mother of the Book.

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• ‘Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated, unfairly so, in my opinion.’ (Conrad Black)

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• Modernity, at best, is a nostalgia for desire.

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• Liberal Christianity: first goes faith, then goes hope, until charity alone remains.

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• Real fiqh is always a vernacular Islam.

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• The delight of each worldly pleasure does not last long.

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• The longer you wait to claim or forgo your rights, the longer you will wait for friendship.

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• It is only the hungry and unfortunate who may know whether they are good.

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• The believer has faith as his companion, and hope in his destination. The ignorant man has neither, yet he still seeks joy.

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• Self-control makes you a fortress; self-indulgence makes you an animal, either a riding-beast or a target.

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• Your nafs will never receive exactly what it wants.

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• Pain is nine-tenths of desire.

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• If your Islam does not attract pure hearts, it is not Islam.

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• Man is ‘ibara; woman is ishara.

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• Dunya: a little Gentleness, and much Rigour. The fitra: a little Rigour and much Gentleness.

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• Be patient with literalists; but absolutely impatient with their extremists.

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• Lustrate, and you will be illustrious. (Ghurur is only in the ghurra.)

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• Climate change: ‘And We coin similitudes for mankind, that perhaps they may reflect.’

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• A busy life makes the Prayer harder; but the Prayer makes a busy life easier.

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• The nafs is anxiety and agitation. The Spirit is the breath of peace. (‘So give good news to My servants!’)

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• Two names unpronounceable in Edom: Hagar and Muhammad.

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• We need not remain in the dark without dark al-idrak.We need not remain in the dark without dark al-idrak.

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• ‘Islah’ can never mean more than ‘amelioration’.

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• The medievals, seeing the colour of our clothes, would call us all atheists.

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• The preacher should neither lower the price of his goods, nor price Islam out of the market.

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• Kufr: impermanence is a problem. Iman: our anxiety about impermanence is a problem.

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• Science is the revelation of order. Faith is the revelation of liberation.

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• The false Salafi is enraged because Sufism has been taken away from him.

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• Betjeman: summoned by belles.

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• We are divided from the other world by the thinnest of membranes, which we hang with mirrors.

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• Great art is God looking at you. Mediocre art is you looking at God. Demonic art is you looking at yourself alone.

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• Suicide bombing: al-fana’ fi’l-shaytan.Suicide bombing: al-fana’ fi’l-shaytan.

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• Deism is dualism. Occasionalism is the only alternative.

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• Modernity has only footnotes; faith has text as well.

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• Belief in God begins when we cease to believe in ourselves.

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• What are you but a lightly-clothed skeleton?

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• Your bumper sticker is a fish eating a fish; for your Shari‘a fate in the West is to eat fish.

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• The saint is the one whose love reminds you of your most recent sin.

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• An ayah is a wetnurse. When born we suckle, when we die we are weaned.

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• Islam: the real Jesus was unitarian. Christianity: the real Moses was trinitarian.

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• The foundation of Action is Theology. The foundation of Theology is Faith. The foundation of Faith is Action.

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• The foundation of Knowledge is the Body; the foundation of the Body is not Knowledge.

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• Ash‘arism: the turn to the Sunna is a turn towards reason, for the Sunna neglects nothing that is from God.

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• Khawarij are full of hawa.Khawarij are full of hawa.Khawarij are full of hawa.Khawarij are full of hawa.

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• Tasting is always of the Near. Do not, therefore, be veiled from the Transcendent.

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• If you put down your tasbih you will not pick up a rifle safely.

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• Haste is usually the consequence of sloth, not of diligence.

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• Edom produced the modern world of distraction, because it neglected eros and polis.

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• To be proud of luxury is a sin, but to be proud of disdaining it is worse by far.

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• ‘Moderate Islam’? Do not be an extreme Muslim; be extremely Muslim.

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• Dhikr and electricity are deadly rivals.

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• The wife’s vulnerability is not the husband’s strength.

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• You do not rise to Him. He does not descend to you. Rather, what you see, He may unveil as His alone.

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• Your reach towards Him is tiny. His reach towards you has no limit.

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• Love learning, since learning leads to action.

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• Fiqh is the joyful focussing on the moment.

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• Rejoice most highly when the Teacher’s command is hard.

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• Zion is the abuse of Maimonidean Mu‘tazilism.

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• To conform to the Sunna is to ‘conform to God’. Do not think that there is freedom anywhere else.

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• Our finitude is our distance from Him. His infinitude is His closeness to us.

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• The false Salafism: extra Arabia nulla salus.

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• Theology is sharh; Religious Studies is tashrih.

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• No modesty, no sensuality. No sensuality, no knowledge of God.

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• Only the Evil I takes mankind from the minbar to the minibar.

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• The identity-merchant says ‘Un-Islamic’; the Godfearing says: ‘Makruh’ or ‘Haram.’

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• Arius says: Follow the muhkamat!Arius says: Follow the muhkamat!Arius says: Follow the muhkamat!

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• The saint’s belief that he is bound for hell is his halo.

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• Do not use your beard to open people’s ears.

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• Happiness is more important than conforming to the Monoculture.

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• Westernisation? Maqam Rast is ours already.

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• Hû and cry: only by talwin can we endure this age.

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• The false Salafism: it is better to lose angrily than to win calmly.

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• The cross and the décolletage: in hoc signo vinces.The cross and the décolletage: in hoc signo vinces.

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• He did not say: ‘Guide us to the gay path.’

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• A politician deals with symptoms, a leader deals with causes.

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• Expect only a little. If you impose everything on everyone, you will drive everyone away from everything.

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• We see the world, and think it to be still. But it is coming down fast, all the time, from Heaven. (‘You see the mountains, and think them to be still.’)

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• Rigour of Moses, Ahmad’s mercy,Beauty of Jesus, heralds all.In Adam’s heirs no controversy,Call for change, don’t change the call!

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• In the restaurant of life, the false Salafi can do no more than eat the menu.

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• Da‘wa should start at the point of harmony, not the point of dissonance.

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• Do not trust the Arab who prefers nylon to cotton.

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• The Prayer is rus in urbe.The Prayer is rus in urbe.

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• The world survives because one may fall out of love with hatred, but one may never fall out of love with love.

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• Who is a shaykh? One who recognises that his life will soon be over.

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• Ibada: remember God to re-member yourself.Ibada: remember God to re-member yourself.

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• If you are threatened by a materialist civilisation, make yourself economically indispensable.

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• A real aristocrat is a healing for the world.

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• Islam: there is a basis for cumulation. The West: there is only cumulation.

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• ‘Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne,He travels the fastest who travels alone.’ (Kipling)

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• Practice of the Sunna is at its most pure and uncompromising where it supports cultural diversity.

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• Rafidism: the first Muslim conspiracy theory.

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• You cannot arrive by making an effort, but you cannot arrive without making an effort.

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