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- Nothing is more indicative of God than His conventions.
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- Buying is much more American than thinking.’ (A. Warhol)
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- How easy it is to forget how easy it is to forget!
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- False religion finds it easier to make holes than to fill them.
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- Lilies that fester smell worse than weeds.’
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- The Buraq exists to indicate the nature of the asbab.
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- The materialist argument against women: public performance equals fulfilment.
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- The false Salafism should recall that some creatures can only survive in deep water.
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- The veil covers the man’s eyes, not the woman’s.
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- Ibn Taymiya forgot that any rejection of jnana should at least be in favour of bhakti.
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- The wine is masculine, the milk is feminine.
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- To be resigned is not to resign.
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- Islam was the sharpest of all medieval Western problems of theodicy.
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- Is alcohol the only self-imposed mental disorder?
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- Opium is the religion of the masses.
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- Islam is the Pentecost.
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- Transcendence is merciful insofar as it is preparatory.
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- Most people would benefit greatly from learning a first language.
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- Muhasaba: you will not move forwards until you look backwards.
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- Pride is the only sin that cannot fear God.
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- Venus is subverted less profoundly than Mars.
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- Woman is in the first glance, not the second.
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- Marriage should be the retrieval of the first glance.
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- The Straight Path is the shortest distance between two points.
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- Only five pillars hold up the sky.
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- Without Law we can make no ablution from our sins; but without Spirit there is no water.
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- Ijaza is transfusion.
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- Many of our priests are in the wrong religion.
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- There is no liberation in the world that is not also a liberation from the world.
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- Postmodernity: a galaxy of dogmatisms.
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- We have become too weak even to close our eyes.
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- What I stand for is what I stand on’ (Wendell Berry) ‘No prophet was not a herder of sheep.’
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- Sufism is uncastrated Sunnism.
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- Homo is sapiens when he is the natural locus of the supernatural.
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- Christianity chooses the wine, Islam chooses the milk.
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- It is normal that not everyone deserves the mawlid.
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- Our Odyssey precedes our Iliad.
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- It is impossible to love a woman without loving womankind.
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- Sexual fidelity is not only to one’s spouse.
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- It is only bad gardeners who uproot all the weeds.
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- Showing the false to be false does not prove the truth to be true; but not vice-versa.
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- The theologian proves the second shahada from the first. The saint proves the first shahada from the second.
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- Grant us to deal with others on the basis of our thankfulness to You.
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- Religion is faith, culture and sensibility, none of which may change alone.
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- Judaism: inscription. Christianity: incarnation. Islam: inlibration.
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- The sunna is an optic.
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- Marvel at mercy only when it comes from those to whom no mercy has been shown.
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- Man ankara Ankara faqad ankara al-ankara.
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- An unfortunate pir of Lahore, Had four different mothers-in-law. They talked in rotation In English and Asian Until he ran out of the door.
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- History for the false Salafis is what the Holocaust is for the Jews.
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- Polytheism is faith in the alterities.
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- We grow through self-diminution.
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- Without the law of Love there is no Law at all.
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- There is no conception of God, for conceptions will pass away.
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- The profane see the windmill, the saints see the wind.
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- Adam is because of ‘adam; ‘amal is because of ‘alam; adab is because of abad.
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- Temporality has tied the tresses.
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- To say that there is nothing after the Sunna is to accuse it of infertility ‘Truly, your detractor is the one cut off.’
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- If you would be young in eternity, emulate maturity while you are still young.
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- The false Salafism: veiling the Prophet with the Sunna.
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- Islam and the Umma teach us different kinds of humility.
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- Nothing succeeds like circumspection.
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- Why did it take so long for Christendom to turn its view of nature into reality?
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- We have replaced contrition with shame.
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- Literalism is a playpen.
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- If Eve is not of Adam, marriage is mere cohabitation.
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- Back to the Sources!’ Pulling up the bucket is not helped by cutting the rope.
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- Beware the denial of identity that is not a denial of the self.
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- A Messiah is monochrome, but a book is a prism(‘I am sent to all mankind.’).
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- Pessimism is part of the impiety of the periphery.
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- The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.’ (Imam al-Ghazali)
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- There is no better way to limit the Divine mercy than by limiting Islam.
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- Only be proud of your works to the extent that you remember that they are not yours.
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- There is no Divine gift that is perfect in the absence of the fear of hell.
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- Because we are worldly we are worldless.
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- Tawhid makes vanity impossible; shirk makes it indispensable.
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- The hardest choices are those between justice and equality.
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- Mercy has the last Word.
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- The alpha male must not be a wife beta.
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- The body is usually exposed only when the ego has ruined the face.
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- The Hashwiyya: without the well-upholstered there would be no tanjid.
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- Nothing is more counter-intuitive than secularity.
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- Religious practice is important only as a means of serving God.
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- Haqiqa justifies tariqa; tariqa justifies shari‘a.
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- We want to make religion as small as ourselves; just as we have made our homes as ugly as ourselves.
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- The annalist cannot understand kingship; ‘We have ennobled the progeny of Adam.’
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- The world is not intolerant of Islam so much as it is intolerant of stupidity.
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- Nothing is more expensive than being nowhere.
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- Futuwwa: the knight must be freed from the daze.
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- The saint only leaves the bridal chamber on his beloved’s account(‘I am his hand wherewith he smites.’)
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- To prove that it is not men who make religion true we must prove that religion can make men true.
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- Faith cannot yield despair; despair cannot yield martyrdom.
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- Religion is maximising the number of epiphanies we love.
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- ‘If somebody scratches where it itches, does that count as progress?’ (Wittgenstein)
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- Monarchy: there is no baraka from below.
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- Al-Amin is followed only by the amenable.
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- Those who curse do not transform; those who do not curse transform.
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- New Men without the numen neglect the marital and the martial.
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- Suluk is untying the knot; jadhb is cutting it.
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- The conspiracy theory of society comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place”?’ (Karl Popper)
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