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• The Thou that can be known is not the eternal Thou.

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• The alternative to Calvinism does not need to be Jansenism.

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• The false Salafism: an optimism about the present which justifies a pessimism about the past.

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• All Islam offers is God.

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• From servant to savant; from ‘aqedah to ‘aqidah.

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• No liberation without libation. (‘I charge you to be good to women.’)

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• Shari‘a is a side of God’s mercy. Tariqa is a sign of God’s mercy. Haqiqa is a sigh of God’s mercy.

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• He created Hell only that He might be called ‘Merciful’.

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• ‘Leave the ghazal, look into the azal.’ (Rumi)‘Leave the ghazal, look into the azal.’ (Rumi)

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• The lubb: humanity without nature is like nature without daylight.

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• No religion without love of the founder; no love of the founder without poetry. (Everyone should be the fruit of a na‘t-case.)

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• ‘Die Bösen haben keine Lieder.’

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• Hawa: the wind of fancy.

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• Adab: we must re-member our bodies.

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• Judaism was not displaced by Christianity or Islam so much as it was displaced by Zionism.

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• Moderation in miracles: ‘Enter houses by their doors.'

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• Where there is no iman there is no theology.

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• The fact that we so regularly misunderstand each other is a proof of Islam’s universality.

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• Those that mind the state must mind their state of mind.

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• Our muniments are our munitions.

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• Maidens! Mey’den meydanlar medeniyyet’tir!

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• Islam provides hope; the umma provides fear. ‘Whoever unites both wings shall fly.’

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• A theology which attributes the jalal to a failure of jamal must end in secularity.

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• To whom are the Mothers of Believers entrusted, after his death? Not to John, but to themselves.

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• It is better to be tolerant than to be terminated.

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• If Zionism is not a xenotransplant, why are there so many antibodies?

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• We need an Erasmus, not a Luther.

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• The next conquest must take place south of Poitiers.

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• Halakhah: Israel is the handmaiden of Judaism. Herzl: Judaism is the handmaiden of Israel.

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• Mars goes over; Venus goes through. Only when we know the destination can we begin to speak of equality.

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• Jihad: before drawing your sword, learn how to open your eyes.

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• Without eschatology there is only scatology.

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• Shi‘ism: He was infallible, except in his choice of wives.

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• If you want truth to be accepted, you must be accepted. If you want to be accepted, proclaim what you can accept.

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• Punching buttons is il don fatale for the fata.

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• Holidays: they think their bodies are solar-powered.

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• Takhrij is no substitute for exegesis.

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• Miss Aisha Featherstone-PughHas problems performing wudu.When splashing with water,I’m sure that she oughter,Take off her veil and her gloves too.Miss Aisha Featherstone-PughHas problems performing wudu.When splashing with water,I’m sure that she oughter,Take off her veil and her gloves too.Miss Aisha Featherstone-PughHas problems performing wudu.When splashing with water,I’m sure that she oughter,Take off her veil and her gloves too.Miss Aisha Featherstone-PughHas problems performing wudu.When splashing with water,I’m sure that she oughter,Take off her veil and her gloves too.Miss Aisha Featherstone-PughHas problems performing wudu.When splashing with water,I’m sure that she oughter,Take off her veil and her gloves too.

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• Does the infinity of God leave space for anything else?

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• The kafir: the baby turtle that forgot the sea.

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• One turbe for both the duarum turbarum.

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• We need nothing so much as proof of our own hypocrisy.

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• It is blasphemous to use religion as an excuse for one’s lack of culture.

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• Religion should help us to include more, not less.

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• The judge of the art competition seeks only beauty in our portfolios.

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• The emasculation by email replaces quality with equality.

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• The false Salafism: a nostalgia that is not homesickness.

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• Optimism: the false Salafism is pollarding.

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• Suicide bombing is an extreme way of shooting oneself in the foot.

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• The more we have, the less we are.

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• The Christian Messiah is false because he brings calamity to the Jews. The Muslim Messiah is true because he brings their liberation.

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• Secular decadence is less ugly than religious decadence because only organic matter can really decompose.

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• Love of the saints is the proof of religion and of religiosity.

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• Nothing brings less ease than sloth.

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• The posterior has no posterity.

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• Zealotry: the fetishizing of the liminal.

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• Where there is no division in vision there is vision even in division.

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• Secularity: Islam has got the bends. Islam: we are suffering from oxygen deficiency.

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• The West treats other civilisations like stroke victims.

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• Palestine: the burnt offering that atones for Paul’s original sin.

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• How to rebridge the sexes? To reach the point of reconciliation? Only the logos can achieve this, and a logos that isungendered.

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• Kalam is negative theology. Sufism is positive theology.

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• Moriah is the mar’a, the seeing-place. ‘The heart denied not that which it saw.’

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• Mind the Bible with your P’s and Q’s.

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• Atheism: the belief that water originates in the well.

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• Islam: the transformation of nature into culture.

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• If you can’t beat them, be joined by them.

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• Gender: the equator is only equitable if we include the sea. (Ave maris stella!)

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• There is no secular masculinity.

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• Even Hind was not ultimately the hindmost.

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• Heuristics: the ideal ear is the idea without the Id.

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• Popular taqlid sounds like four-part harmony.

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• England needs Priestley’s other oxygen.

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• Without determinism there can be no miracles.

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• Wrath is finite; mercy knows no end.

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• The way forwards is only the way back.

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• Good architecture is to promote thankfulness.

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• Give thanks for the tangible, that you may give thanks for the intangible.

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• Global warming is from the gases of our indigestion.

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• The alternative to tasawwuf is wool-gathering.

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• Nothing is more dangerous than the ego wearing the robes of the spirit.

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• Nomocentrism exists only to exclude egocentrism.

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• Do not ask, ‘Where is God?’, but ask, ‘How am I?’

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• Learn from the Law in the saint alone.

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• Religion is the recognition of beauty.

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• Only the Messiah can write history as the promised palindrome.

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• The American for erotic is erratic.

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• The Other calls us forth through the other.

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• Ideology must not be self-critical; religion must be.

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• We cannot progress until we can stand still.

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• The Turks were even more catholic than the Anglicans.

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• Utopianism was the Jahiliyya of the 20th century.Utopianism was the Jahiliyya of the 20th century.

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• We must be the legatees of the Legate.

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• Laziness is its own chastisement.

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• The umma decays before the shari‘a, the shari‘a before the haqiqa. The haqiqa never decays at all.

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• Those that follow a religion that cannot create a civilisation will create a civilisation that cannot follow a religion.

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• Halakhah without halaqah is a vulnerable linearity.

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• Is it willpower that frees us from our wilfulness?

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• Initiation is to realise the lightness of the Law.

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• Modernity is the teaching of perfect misunderstanding.

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