The Capo of Ketama soon came to see the newcomers, but losing interest in the poor pickings and the lack of trade he spread himself jointly, speaking in humble recognition of the hegomony of the king’s sister over the grass fields; no wonder then that later a mere half a pound interested the taxi-driver in acquiring his minor cut from the local cop-shop; and that kept officialdom and the local curious court in pay for a while.

The Qadi is to wait a full lunar before inserting the ahkam between people new to him – to acquire a minimum of ‘urf and akklimatization:

tutherwise too long a wait congeals the ties to the locals making decisions pénible –

like the Capo di Mistley, fresh from Essex way, only to find the omertà was there unknown: “But surely you see its alive and kicking in new coloured clothes.”

He depth-charged the sea of the murid’s nafs to see how the lay of the land was when his bits from the heavens fell back to the waves in the pre-ordained pattern.

He needed more living space, dared not say Lebensraum: and then it came, the relief of the idhn from der Qual der Wahl, the space beyond space.

And wanted to enter the indented fjord-like coastline of the west – rather than the smooth map of the east – where the big waves were.

Spontaaneus, sponte sua, can be dangerous to freiheit if the millisecond decision of the moment breaks habits.

“Waiting for disaster?”

“Why yes, we Weegurs in the Schul-Gulag anxiously anticipate an earthquake, although an invading horde shall do, or Korona v. to free us.

Only two klasses: the poor and the rich, the middle are the poor and rich in spontaneous spontaneity.”

Some are so obsessed with tribulations that the ease of contentment in the Garden is so foreign that better kling to the present problems

than suffer the risk of bliss.

For the seera of the Mursal, if the recipe is received,

better be an outcast when the truth hits the clean sheet of papier:

for the baggage-free bloke may become frei to more tangibly take on a new history, other than the official one of normality prescribed coercively when young; and frei to take on another kuntree, push the borders of the nafs to bestow another lingo on it.

Then on to Pythagoras’ spontaneity and a touch of Isadora D. to liven up the stodge of academia, beyond Anabasis and back to Bach for the audio of

listening, listening, listening.

γραμματική is the art of writing so beware of the meanings and pluck the fruit off the tree without being engrossed in the blossom

Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner or alles Verstehen heißt alles Entschuldigen or Capire tutto è perdonare tutto for Gino Cervi

or “better not seek pardon” said Wodehouse, in fleeing indebtedness

for it is nothing other than annihilation into the multifarious aims of all the slaves resulting in silence leading perforce into a question as to whether speaking up is preferable when the latter brings so much turmoil to the ignorant.

Wenn einer in den Spiegel siehet,

ein Mann, und siehet darinn sein Bild, wie abgemahlt;

es gleicht dem Manne.

Augen hat des Menschen Bild,

hingegen Licht der Mond.

Der König Ödipus hat ein Auge zuviel vielleicht.

Diese Leiden dieses Mannes, sie scheinen unbeschreiblich, unaussprechlich,

unausdrüklich.

qul da’iman Allah Allah

ça y est, he thought of the ache to the head

informing him of distance from Him.

The secret is in service

and the healthy moral of the day: the fitra of the mistress

رغم أنف الكهنة