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• Whitehall: forget the gold dome on your prayer mat.

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• Riyadh is the garden of Takfir.

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• Today we grow up quickly, but into something childish.

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• You no longer have the privilege of the Umma’s protection. (‘And upon God … ’)

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• You cannot grow out of your culture, but you can help it to grow.

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• It is better to engage fully with the Monoculture from a position of dislike than to engage partly with it from a position of admiration.

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• To give the newcomer the rukhas is fard. To give yourself the azima is Sunna.

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• The Arabs deceived the Turks. Lawrence deceived the Arabs. The British deceived Lawrence. Herzl deceived the British. God deceived Herzl.

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• The task of the intellectual is to atone for his complexity.

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• Improvisation? Edom sounds like the opposite of a mode.

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• Schneerson: Israel is a goyische Staat.

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• ‘You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.’ (Dorothy Parker)

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• Falah is harvesting what God has done for you, not what you have done for God.

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• Fiqh gender disparities reflect her nearness to the fitra.

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• With God’s secret gift, every hardship becomes easy. Without it, every ease becomes a source of hardship.

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• The real miracle is anything that is not perceived as a miracle.

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• Hijab is not self-respect: it is Self-respect.

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• Natural theology is the philology of matter.

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• Lord, forgive us their ignorance.

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• Disregard my sins as you hear this prayer. And make this prayer that you disregard my sins.

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•  The world is most damaged by those who have the highest opinion of themselves.

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• ‘I particularly like the idea that my paintings may say nothing.’ (Magritte)

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• Why ‘spirituality’? Because muraqaba makes the ritual into the spy-ritual.

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• You may hold open the furnace door; but it is God Alone who blows out the fires consuming your heart.

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• Twelvism: dhawban al-hasha li’ttila’ al-Molla.

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• The Semitic is both emic and etic.

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• Women are not difficult; but they are difficult to understand.

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• Men are not easy; but they are easy to understand.

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• Total transcendence is immanence.

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• ‘Terrorism and precipitate responses to it almost always produce the opposite of what is intended.’ (Robert W. Funk)

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• The C of E: to forget that to be popular you must be unpopular.

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• The young must learn to be forgiving; the old must relearn zeal.

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• Islam is to be the oxygen of the West’s metropoli.

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• Tawhib yields tardid; taswif yields tawhid.

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• Uncle Same: choice should be both legal and improbable.

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• Stolen prayers are the sweetest.

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• The Liber Asian: ignore thyself and love the Other through the other. The libertine: love thyself, and let the other veil the Other.

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• The Liber Asian: ‘no sound is dissonant which tells of life.’ (Coleridge)

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• The devil within you: vein glory.

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• Only God can save us from thinking that we are gods.

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• The scientist discloses matter, the jurist discloses ethics. But their shared beauty can only be disclosed by the Teacher.

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• Takbir is insincere when louder than istighfar.

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• By their selflessness they take you from yourself to Himself.

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• Show yourself yourself; then He will show Himself Himself.

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• The celibate priest is a Tertium Quid; slave of the Eutychian God.

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• Like solar prominences, the Koran’s bibliotheophanies indicate the energy of its self-celebration.

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• What is forbidden, is forbidden only because of its banality. ‘God is Beautiful, and He loves beauty.’

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• Islamism: the Holy Prophet marching.

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• Arab humiliation is usually the result of Arab pride.

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• The Teacher does not love the disciple because the disciple serves the Teacher. The Teacher loves the disciple because his service reveals understanding of the Way.

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• When the Teacher moves beyond the curtain of death, the signs become fainter; they are instructing you to watch for them more carefully.

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• Masculinity and femininity are the purest signs of God when without ego; when they are possessed by egotism they become the perfect tools of the Infernal.

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• The alternative to interiority is inferiority; but the alternative to the internal is not the infernal.

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• Antisemitic? The true Unitarian must be against Marcion.

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• She that uses her body to exploit is a suicide bomber.

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• If he is both familiar and unfamiliar, he is a Messenger of God.

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• Occidising will rust your heart. (Have mercy on Uncle Same!)

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• Comfort and freedom are unnatural bedfellows.

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• The Shaykh’s cosmic gift to you is the opportunity to serve him.

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• If you disobey the Teacher, you have told him of your admiration for the tiny.

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• It is better to be exterminated entirely than to give away the Holy Land.

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• Uncle Same is lord of the Monoculture. Allah is Lord of the Worlds.

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• ‘The medium is the massage’ (Yahya Birt.) ‘The body-subject hosts cognition’ (Merleau-Ponty)

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• Marry them both – but only if you wish God to judge you for your fairness.

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• The Sufi is he who makes God’s slaves love the Law.

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• The Rindan do not despise God’s Law, but if you make it ugly – hear their mockery!

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• If A’isha is irrational, then we are with Sarah, not Hagar.

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• Ours is the Bezm-i Rindan; our leader is al-Khidr!Ours is the Bezm-i Rindan; our leader is al-Khidr!Ours is the Bezm-i Rindan; our leader is al-Khidr!

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• Pay attention, and trust in God.

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• Know that your plans are written on water.

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• Misogynist? Hafsa held the future of the Book in her hands; A’isha held the Sunna.

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• Respect her to the extent that she intuits her status as mazhar.

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• Tariqa: peer with peers to find a pir; a pir appears.

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• A pir is like a pier. Admire the sideshows; but remember: his end is His ocean’s gate.

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• The Monoculture: everyone toes the line, saying: ‘I am in a different place!’

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• Edom has filled the Yawning Gulf with laughing-gas.

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• The world is the way it is because you are the way you are.

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• Edomite feminism: letting men see my thighs makes me free.

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• Your knowledge of your acts tells you that your home is Turbulence; your knowledge of your Lord tells you that your home is Paradise. Manzel-i ma kibriyast!

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• ‘Fear of God is knowledge enough. To be pleased with one’s knowledge is ignorance enough.’ (Bint Umm Hassan)

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• The Yawning Gulf: the cemetery of hope.

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• Israel will forever be the country of the future.

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• A long life? Each decade is half the length of its predecessor.

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• A saint is anyone who teaches you the meaning of wudu’.A saint is anyone who teaches you the meaning of wudu’.

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• The Ummi was the unequalled promoter of literacy.

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• The Liberal Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Zeitgeist.

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• A tasbih deals with tashbih. But for tanzih, there is nothing at all.

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• If you crave narrowness, crave a narrowness that is filled with mercy.

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• It is easier to preach on vengeance than on patience.

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• Respect the insights that can only be expressed by humour.

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• Pride is the crown of the ignorant.

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• Traditional Islam is not the replication of the positions of the ancients; it is to seek what they sought.

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• Look within, and what is outside you will become clear. Look around you, and you will understand yourself.

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• Arabs! Bright lights at Fajr, and loud loudspeakers, are errors that belie the Faith.Arabs! Bright lights at Fajr, and loud loudspeakers, are errors that belie the Faith.

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• If you believe in peace, you will not believe in pacifism.

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• In the rain of God’s mercy, the believer is a duck, the infidel a cat.

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• All of Edom is in the Johannine Comma.

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• A little worship with sincerity is all of religion; abundant worship for the sake of one’s image of oneself is nothing at all.

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• Modernity finds it hard to distinguish between rest and idleness.

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