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• Bradford youth: ta’weel of fortune.

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• He is Newtonian; she demonstrates the quantum principle

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• Oneness cannot be exaggerated.

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• Al-Jamil means ‘He That Reminds’.

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• Remember: your state is always contagious.

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• European Islam: the hand at Belshazzar’s feast.

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• Bless him, and you will travel to the secret of the Names.

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• The zahid experiences the Sunna as a boundary. The rind experiences it as a breaking of bounds.

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• Relative existence has no reality of itself. See it only as signs made of shadows.

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• Who is less redeemed than the Lying Tongue?

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• Childhood has been electrocuted.

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• Israel is ‘Nebuchadnezzar, My servant’.

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• Servanthood is the mark of humanity.

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• Only they who underestimate Shari’a despise Tariqa.

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• Tyler Durden: without functional women, no functional men.

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• Laugh at Christendom until it defends Bethlehem.

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• Islam is muwahhid; the monoculture is muwahhad.

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• The position of prayer in your list of priorities points to your state.

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• The first social law: for every true affinity between a man and a woman, there are ten attractions which are from the devil.

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• The Mahdi will be appointed by Theos, not Demos. The blood of warrior-patricians will run in his veins.

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• Woman is between khawf and raja.

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• Her home is her zawiya; but khidma must be only the first of her degrees.

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• Love your beloved better to love the Beloved. Love the Beloved and you will better love your beloved.

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• Zionism: the absolute priority of blood.

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• Tories are all Whigs now.

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• The Moderate Muslim: ‘Islam is against mass murder! Deep down, we’re just as lovely as you! er … Where’s the buffet?’

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• Modernity is confined to Westernness; Islam is not.

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• Honour is honour, whether or not others know.

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• Marriage is not to give you what you want, it is to make you what you know you should be.

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• Between the Pelagian and the pagan El and the true I lie.

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• Islam is not about ‘being yourself’; it is about improving yourself.

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• After converting, treat yourself to your favourite meal.

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• Modern holidays: the nafs will heal the ruh!

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• A gospeller called Tony BlairDestroyed all Iraq from the air,And then with decorumHis Interfaith ForumSoon made him a smug millionaire.

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• Modernity offers us everything except pleasure and leisure.

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• Paul laid the cuckoo’s egg.

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• Religion is not difficult; we are difficult.

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• Lie to others, and you will soon lie to yourself.

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• If you are sceptical about coincidences, God will help you.

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• If Sufism is marginal to your life, then try to be that margin.

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• The saint is serious, but not judgmental; the false Salafi is judgmental, but not serious.

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• The Teacher knows that only the tedious is forbidden.

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• Tradition: we are on Religion’s leash. Modernity: religion is on our leash.

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• Joining religion is like unearthing your family tree.

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• Reality is a System. Kufr is not a malfunction in that System, it is the illusion that a malfunction exists.

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• ‘It’s kind of bad we destroyed everything, but at least we gave them a chance for a new start’ (Uncle Same’s warrior, after Fallujah).

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• Hamlet’s tragedy was to read St Mark.

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• It is not arbitrary creation that is amazing; what is amazing is the perfect occasions He employs. ‘Do you see any flaw in the Merciful’s creation?

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• Only view her objectively if you view her as an object.

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• The beginner resents being laughed at. The wayfarer forgives those who laugh. The Arriver laughs with them, long and loud.

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• Being Muslim is the only authentic way to belong to your country.

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• Do not trust a culture where the religious leaders do not have the best sense of humour.

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• Did Paul’s Jesus have hormones? Ecce homo …

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• We can know nothing other than the Unknowable.

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• Allat, Manat and al-Uzza cannot compete with your potential for harm.

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• The Yawning Gulf lacks the principle of having principles.

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• Augustine: the Gospels allow us to put down the body, and pick up the sword.

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• When heart and body are in harmony, fikr results.

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• The Siddiq and the Murtada are like Isaac and Ishmael: we do not say either-or, but both-and.

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• You will only choose the right tariqa when you realise in what sense it does not matter which tariqa you choose.

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• If you are a doctor, and your heart does not grow softer each day, then burn your coat, and dance on the grave of your pretensions.

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• The monoculture’s son is Zahid; you are the Rind. But among the Zahids of Islam, where are the Rindan?

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• Be still, and know that you are odd.

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• In a democracy there should be no private beliefs.

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• Only a hypocrite is proud that he despises himself as a hypocrite.

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• You have underestimated His rahma.You have underestimated His rahma.You have underestimated His rahma.

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• It is eudaimonian, or it is pandemonium.

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• Revelation is everything that allows us to discern the Good.

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• The world’s texture is as rich as it is because of what you are called to be.

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• The only principles in this world which are impressive are Paradisal: the beauty of nature, of women, perfume, friendship, the sound of God’s word.

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• Utopia? The devil tempts you to attempt heaven on earth, as he tempts you with zina.

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• There are no loopholes in the Law, only well-crafted opportunities for sloth or gratitude.

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• Traditional architecture: materials praising their Maker. Modern architecture: materials praising Man. Postmodern architecture: materials mocking man.

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• Tradition: a low expectation of this world; high hopes for the next. Result: happiness. Modernity: high hopes for this world, low hopes for the next. Result: misery.

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• He who says, ‘I am patient’, is not patient.

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• Maidens! Only use hairspray so the hairs pray.

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• If you want light in your house, use electricity from a sustainable source.

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• The saint says a few simple things, and changes the world. The academic philosophises, but does not change even himself.

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• We are the Shi‘at Ali.We are the Shi‘at Ali.We are the Shi‘at Ali.

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• Trust in God, but don’t trust your trust in God.

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• Sharia – to hammer in the tent-pegs. Tariqa – to pitch the tent. Haqiqa – to dwell in the tent as a Prophet in glory.

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• Only Karaite Muslims demand adherence to a detailed creed.

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• Not all autonomy is dignity; but all dignity is autonomy.

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• Fasl: Calmness lies on the other side of your tasks. Wasl: Your tasks are your calmness.Fasl: Calmness lies on the other side of your tasks. Wasl: Your tasks are your calmness.

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• Wisdom and safety are humility’s twin daughters.

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• Zuhd is to make the soul feel at home in the body.Zuhd is to make the soul feel at home in the body.

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• How much asceticism do you need?

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• Pogonophilia without fitraphilia is a Jahilia.

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• False culture opposes consciousness.

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• Do not treat the world as though you were its centre.

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• Sufism: ‘the ways to God are as numerous as human breaths.’ The False Salafism: you take one breath, and hold it.

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• ‘Facts are chiels that winna ding’. (Burns)

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• Be the heart of your family by having your family in your heart.

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• Only patriarchy can guarantee gender equality.

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• Self-limitation allows you to find your character.

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• The Yawning Gulf: no taxation without representation.

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• The New Kalam: a thoughtful engagement with modern thought. The Third World elites: a thoughtless conformity to modern practice. The False Salafism: no conformity, and no thought.

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• Secularity excludes universals.

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• True marriage happens when there is true perception of beauty. True perception of beauty happens when there is true religion.

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• It is zuhd, not violence, that will melt the heart of Uncle Same.

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• Secular morality: modernity’s saving fiction.

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• The whats and thou-shalt-nots all tie you up in knots,for only in the whysare humans reckoned wise.

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