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• We have turned the Sunna Theologica into a Sunna Contra Gentiles.

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• Women are either refuges or refugees.

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• But for Sufism, religion would be just another form of self-esteem.

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• The false Salafism: an unsuccessful flight from complexity.

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• Faith is not a given, it is given.

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• If you would know God’s view of the age, see how the blessing of nature has been received.

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• There are the slim, and there are the mu-slims.

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• Faith may be measured by the number of verses that soften one’s heart.

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• Today’s Umma deserves the Law as imposed by those who do not deserve it.

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• Modernity: a way of drowning in nothingness.

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• Failing to pray for faith is a sign of lack of faith.

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• He was exemplary for all four castes.

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• Modernity has not healed our pain, it has only dried our tears.

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• Islam cannot be a way of being modern; but it can be a way of being Western.

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• Freedom of information? What information?

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• Today we identify the ahbar by the akhbar.

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• We are all sceptics – it is usually the age which determines whether we are sceptics about Gift or Chance.

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• Let us hope that their shout does not bring on the Shout.

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• The mujtahid does no more than turn the soil.

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• If your morale is built on the Umma, beware

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• The usuliyyun have been replaced by the usuliyyun.

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• Dreams do not illustrate the nafs so surely as daydreams.

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• Do not wonder at the Arab’s love of emotion

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• ‘One who has mercy on the cruel will in the end be cruel to the merciful’

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• The false Salafism: to make progress, we need to start at the beginning every day.

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• Never before has praise from a sultan been so insulting.

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• The principal task of the Jewish people today is to befriend Islam.

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• ‘Dialogue’ comes easily to us, since Islam is the best of Judaism and the best of Christianity.

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• Scripture to Law is as a vessel, not a manual.

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• Has the Liber Asian deprived Eve of her priority in the felix culpa?

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• Islamism is the Frankenstein of Frankistan.

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• The false Salafi should disbelieve in angels.

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• The sunna is our epistemology.The sunna is our epistemology.

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• Ikhlas: She should be mutahajjiba, not muhajjaba, and her opposite mubarraja, not mutabarrija.Ikhlas: She should be mutahajjiba, not muhajjaba, and her opposite mubarraja, not mutabarrija.

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• Capitalism: the law of the jungle that destroys the jungle.

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• Preferring rida to riba is the choosing of the milk over the wine.Preferring rida to riba is the choosing of the milk over the wine.

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• Remember, today, everyone is weak.

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• Urizen’s lie: gender is an accident, not an essence.

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• Ummatolatry: from Islam to Izlam.

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• Islam thinks dyadically; Islamism thinks dialectically.

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• Persianisation enhanced tafarrus.Persianisation enhanced tafarrus.

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• The pleasure of false Salafism: the exegete stands above, not below, the ulema.

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• A paradox: the showing of light is usually covert.

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• Sufism is the belief that we should not act against the political interests of Islam.

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• Mecca: he will come. Jerusalem: he was here. Medina: he is here.Mecca: he will come. Jerusalem: he was here. Medina: he is here.

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• Islam’s heart is ethical; the West’s skin is ethical.

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• Which is greater: His patience, or your impatience?

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• Do not equate wara‘ with fastidiousness.

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• Criticism is infectious.

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• Orthodoxy, like heterosexuality, is a corporeal, majoritarian mode of being.

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• ‘The true soldier is an enemy to the beast in man.’ (Montgomery of Alamein.)

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• ‘Let’s close our eyes and see what happens.’ (Jimmy Greaves, Seoul 2002.)

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• Heaven/Earth cannot be a same-sex relationship.

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• Christ is the Hodegetria.

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• Fear of death marks the difference between modern and Islamic art.

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• ‘He who binds to himself a joy, doth the winged life destroy; He who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity’s sunrise.’ (Blake.)

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• Ibn Taymiya: God has receded from created being. Jahm: God is a formal omnipresence of being. The sunna: God is the ground of all being.

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• The ability to perform ijtihad makes the scholar less judgmental, and vice-versa.

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• The Middle Nation lies between the monastic and the monistic.

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• Ethics is the treatment for our exile from God.

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• It is the Muslim, not Islam, that cries out to be reformed.

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• The function of the Caliph is to defend people’s lives, not to interfere with them.

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• Modernity offers more and more ways of being the same sort of thing.

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• We are too busy being right to have time for God.

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• Tragedy begins with Homer, not with Moses.

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• The creator’s subject-object relation is the syzygy of tanzih and tashbih.

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• They make a desert, and call it democracy.

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• One is to rejoice at non-membership of the culture that is Earth’s enemy.

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• Unlike the Christians we see Heaven even when we look down

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• Infallibility is divine, because of its absoluteness; and is therefore given only in respect of that which is divine.

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• Gaia is not ghaya, it is matrix.

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• Once we cried out hawqalas, now we cry out ‘How callous!’

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• The false Cynic: Nietzsche only embraced a horse when he was mad.

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• Islam is God’s effort to give us the easiest possible way of being traditional.

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• The frontier between seen and unseen moves in time, so why not in space?

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• ‘Everything in the world is yours, until and unless you try to grab it and keep it for yourself alone.’ (Pickthall.)

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• It is time to rise from the emotion-bath, and recall where we left the libas al-taqwa.

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• We must not pray in order to name ourselves; we must name ourselves in order to pray.

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• Belong, not short.

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• The verse of women: ‘And they prefer others to themselves, though theirs be the greater need.’ (59:9)

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• The point of false Salafism is the claim that there is only ta‘rib or taghrib.

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• The saint is the father of deception, for he perfectly emulates the veil of the asbab.

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• ‘Sexual display is pure conformism.’ (Germaine Greer.)

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• The saint is a mediator to the extent that he demonstrates the omnipotence of God.

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• The right are never gauche.

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• God is not a reality to be explained; He is the explanation of reality.

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• Unless one has the Islam of the Name, one has only the name of Islam.

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• The Enlightenment’s falsest promise was the development of strong autonomous personalities.

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• Without El, all is indefinite.

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• Only El can turn the Word into the world.

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• What has the Christian to do with his toes?

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• Truth is already present, in all its splendour.

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• Only when distant from God do we crave what is distant from God.

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• In deciding whether a desire is a vice, consider whether its satisfaction is honourable.

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• The fiqh does not require hagiography to be hajji-ography.

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• Religion has only one door, whose name is Repentance

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• The alternative to the Whine is the Wine

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• Jesus was humanly perfect; Christ was inhumanly so.

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• Only religion allows people to be magnificent without egotism.

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