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• Beware the darkness in the grey areas.

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• To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs .

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• We should not do as we like; but we should like what we should do.

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• There is no true engagement without detachment.

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• It is only when you truly don't care what people think that you truly don't need to care what people think.

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• What the heart needs is the periodicity of the crescent, not the uniqueness of the cross. (Chagall, White Crucifixion .)

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• The companion before the road, and the road before the destination. But without the destination there is no road, and without the road there is no companion.

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• Religion that seeks to be no more than a time capsule is likely to be claustrophobic.

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• Ghuluww is not an excess of piety, it is a lack of it.

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• Isaac: the monad. Ishmael: the nomad.

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• True religion invites us to become better people. False religion tells us that this has already occurred.

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• Our faces are a prediction.

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• The ultimate was not he that endured his own suffering; it was he that endured the death of his family. ('I am with the broken-hearted'.)

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• A Sufi is anyone who knows that fiqh means understanding.

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• Extremism is tolerable because it is always transient.

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• Trying to be loved is not the best way of becoming lovable.

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• The most useful person for the Umma is the true mujtahid; the false mujtahid is its worst enemy.

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• The miracle of mundanity . (Rembrandt, The Holy Family .)

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• Failure is God's punishment for exoterism .

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• We need less self-righteousness and more self-knowledge.

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• The fact that the Sunna does not demand imperfection does not mean that it demands perfection.

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• al- Hajju hujja .

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• The gender gap is a minor third.

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• Suluk is a sostenuto , not a tenor clef.

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• Without fiqh there is only opinion.

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• Sufism is the way of God wherever Islam is the way of God.

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• Islam is the way of God wherever Sufism is the way of God.

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• The hijra was the only exodus into extroversion.

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• Extremism should preoccupy us only when it becomes the cause as well as the consequence of failure.

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• Pious repudiations of polyphony usually yield monotony rather than plainchant.

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• Beware the zeal of the uncertain. No-one is zealous for the Pythagoras theorem.

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• The Apollonian and the Dionysiac : where else are the two conjoined?

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• The believer sings louder than he speaks.

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• Without acculturation faith is naked.

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• The best way to make fiqh complicated is to teach that it is simple.

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• Beware the Shari 'a of the Cheshire Cat : able to bite but not to nourish.

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• Idolatry is worse than atheism.

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• Muslim solidarity can never force us to lower our standards.

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• The existence of the fair sex does not justify the existence of an unfair sex.

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• Everyone is a cradle Muslim. The mysterium iniquitatis is a post-natal complication, not a genetic fault.

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• Josephus is less dangerous than Bar Kochba .

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• To the extent that God is corporeal He is demonstrably absent.

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• The new creed: there is no islam but Islam, and Muhammad is the messenger of Islam.

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• Where the roots are weak, the branches are stiff. Where the roots are firm, the branches are supple.

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• Maidens! The alternative to Lerchenau is not always a Rosenkavalier.

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• There was a young man who blamed Fate For the fact that he prayed Fajr late "How frightfully odd Of Almighty God To wake me at quarter past eight !"There was a young man who blamed Fate For the fact that he prayed Fajr late "How frightfully odd Of Almighty God To wake me at quarter past eight !"There was a young man who blamed Fate For the fact that he prayed Fajr late "How frightfully odd Of Almighty God To wake me at quarter past eight !"There was a young man who blamed Fate For the fact that he prayed Fajr late "How frightfully odd Of Almighty God To wake me at quarter past eight !"There was a young man who blamed Fate For the fact that he prayed Fajr late "How frightfully odd Of Almighty God To wake me at quarter past eight !"

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• The semitic semiotic: not making an idol of tawhid .

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• An error of the age: the claim that God has blinded His falcons.

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• Your career should be like prayer in congregation: if a space opens before you, step into it.

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• To believe that every virtue in a disbeliever is a manifestation of the Divine ruse is a manifestation of the Divine ruse.

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• Censorship of the press is less subversive than censorship by the press.

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• Television is hellish vision because it robs us of the sense of truth.

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• No pure purism pushes people into impurity.

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• No revival is an alternative to culture.

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• It is no surprise that modernity arose in a religious civilisation whose central tenet was the absolutising of the relative.

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• Those who wish Islam to be feared and not loved cannot claim the prophetic kerygma in mission.

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• To be reminded of the greed of others and the poverty of the self is to be reminded of the poverty of others and the greed of the self.

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• Make Hayy while the sun shines. ('Sleep is the brother of death'.)

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• Female modesty is no excuse for sloth.

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• It is better that the injustices of others should stand than that our own injustices should stand.

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• Our covenant does not supplant; it prunes and fertilises.

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• Ishmael was the only survivor of the Pequod .

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• The dove and the spider: nature only spares those who spare it.

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• It is better to keep the enemy hull-down on the horizon than to fight him at close quarters.

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• The doctrine of ' ada demands the existence of a defensible secular explanation of nature. Such an explanation thus becomes a mercy. Without it, there is only anomie and alienation.

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• The illusion of causality is a divine mercy, which veils rigour, which in turn veils Mercy.

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• Only a few can see that God's rigour is compassion.

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• Dogma: less is more.

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• The justification of alcohol: those without self-control must pay for the pleasures of those with self-control.

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• The Madina verses prove those of Mecca .

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• Judaism: the deferral of decisiveness. (George Steiner)

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• The élites want everybody to be nobody.

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• There is no gratitude without a sense of beauty, and no humility without a sense of gratitude.

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• Seek, and you will be found.

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• God's only sameness is in His signs.

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• Homosexualism insults women by equating sterility with fertility.

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• It is better to appreciate what you do not have than to have what you do not appreciate.

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• Beauty is the most literal of metaphors.

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• Where there is love there is immanence.

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• Laxity is not the only form of decadence.

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• The slightest reduction of God makes Him vanish.

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• Khalwa is quarantine.

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• Demonising the Other is from the harshnesses of the self.

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• Only the very bad or the very good are polygamists.

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• A canon of self-scrutiny: false religion feels more like a wound than a bandage.

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• The greatest achievement of the ego is to make virtue unattractive.

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• If religion is too big for us, we should be careful which parts we choose.

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• The permanent conversion table: the addition must equal the square of what is subtracted.

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• The front line has grown too long.

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• Power can be servitude. ('I am your most high Lord' .)

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• Our failings are the only cause of our unhappiness.

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• Foucault: the West's frustration is that its discourse on sex does not lead to a conclusion.

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• The weaker the homework, the stronger the ideology. The stronger the homework, the stronger the din .

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• Hermeneutics are no longer about his women.

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• Everyone nowadays is Qadi al-Qudat, Judge of Judges.

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• Before we reform the forms, we must be conformed to the Forms.

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• Only when the mind is free of limitation will we seek no station of annihilation.

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• Exoterism is mediocrity.

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• Marriage: pay and display? Or the primacy of privacy?

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• Feuerbach : theological epistemology is anthropology. The Sunna : anthropology is theological epistemology.

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