In the Spiegel prognostication for 2023 is omitted the survival of the waldgänger,

the woodtrekker whose diet of certain wild herbs of his daily choosing and picking

saved him from dem Plan,

while his message to the filistines to breed more kids rather than burn flags

came to eventual fruition

and his dying advice to the technos lived on:

‘Tell me something most high and holy Kounsel.’

He replied: ‘Do not go to the priests or priestesses, guardians of knowledge, who enslave but to the men and women of gnosis and action, purveyors of knowledge, who free. Look for them among the inheritors of the kahf’.

Zwischen Herat und Kandahar aus der Sommermorgenfrühkühle erwachend zum Paschto-grün im dampfendem Glas von unterm nichtsosehrsauber schweren Teppich auf Chai-khaaneholzleisten Betten cum Bänken. Heißer Hefegeruch vom Tandoori-Naan. Rauschgefährter aus Quebec, alt-französisch sprechend. Khuda haafiz bis zum Garten.

Kein Zeichen hier von Tun um Tunswillen, nur ein langmüdige oder langmütige Erkenntnnis von Seiner Herrschaft. Zeit zum Chillum oder Zeit zum bus?

Frisch geschlachteter Schafskopf, fliegenschwarz, bewegt sich kaum im Wind an der Marktbude; besser aber, als buddhistisches Weltmusik-FriedensVolk und ihr von Generälen gesichertes Brennen der Rohingya.

He picked up another glossy rag, a mainstream soup concealing horror scenarios, depending on which p. Party connived with it, or which puffing-house funded it, or which editor preened in it,

or just the bakhsheesh of hoo

man

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removing the doksy of bribery through mass akzeptanz

‘Do not look with the eye of negation and criticism’

said Shabistari

‘For then the flowers will turn to thorns before you’,

and then sat with the banker, but not from Bankfurt, all sweet smiles in the sun-midst-summer flowers until mention of the forbidden word so abhorred by the man of the cantos. No wage slave, he, but ignorant conspirer to global slavery’s index of 50 million and many, many more sub-slaves in the camps. A muslo-calvinist who removes the naked plastic doll from the sofa of polite conversation,

and remembered Gülen, sitting in the high walled compounded school behind armed guards, pouring over new mosque architect’s plans to the exclusion of messrs AHO, MS, and ARG with gold dinars and silver dirhams in the pocks, bounded by Sdaq’s ‘he, sallallahu alahi wa sallim left nothing but men and women, placed no brick upon another brick’.

And what has youthful night-sleep in a pile of autumn leaves in a Vienna park to do with the later emergence of Islam? Submission.

Or a morning merendino and ristretto amidst the Dolomites after a wakeful, cool sleep by rucksacks in the nearby copse? Need.

Or barefoot on hot sand in desert stone-hut, a guest of a wiry-haired Afrikan and his woman in al-Aqaba? Gratitude.

Dawla, Deen and the Entire City

Hand written pages yield to printer’s ink on paper, yield to electronic ink of pads and readers, to light impulses of photos and words in the worry bead mobile, even to conversations in the street at home between friends and traders

– but not of the weight of the revelation via the Messenger crushing the thigh of Zayd ibn Thaabit, not of the weight of the recitation of the noble Book in the dark of the night as revealed in sura al-Muzammil: ‘Stay up at night, except a little, half of it, or a little less, or a little more, and recite the Qur’an distinctly. We will impose a weighty Word upon you. Certainly rising at night has a stronger effect and is more conducive to concentration. In the daytime much of your time is taken up by business matters. Remember the Name of your Lord, and devote yourself to Him completely. Lord of the East and West –   there is no god but Him – so take Him as your Guardian’

for further illumination see the tafseer of the Illustrious Quran, Al-Bahr al-Madeed – ‘The Vast Ocean’ of Ibn Ajeeba

Stronger, more majestic, the face to face communication of presence:

either the taught or the teaching

if the head is lowered

or better still kneeling

to the source.

O tigered lion, you who have conquered so much more than K2

O smiling lion,

I ask Him for Your shifaa’

thanks from your usaylik wa shibuk.

The twinned yellow fluorite crystals of Giromagny

with the gold further afield in Bourneix

are but meanings set up in images

O getigerter Löwe, der so viel mehr als die Besteigung von K2 hinter dir hast,
ich bitte Ihn um deine Shifaa‘
mit Dank von deinem Usaylik und Shibuk
verzwillingt-gelb Fluorit-Kristalle von Giromagny
mit dem Gold darüber hinaus in Bourneix sind nur Bedeutungen, in Bilder geformt.

Coffee proffered but missed in the moment.

All in a chateau near Belfort created only for the Eid, with Shaykh AbdalQaadir al-Jilaani in the mosque in Baghdad ‘Whoever as seen me today has seen Allah’.

Couillette douillette with the numéro d’astreinte at rest at night.

May Allah bless the Rasoul.

But let me not abstract to much –  for the rugby of the fitya on the lawn of the chateau was for real, for futuwwa.

The man who loved the dunya more

than the Akhira left his friend for the man

who loved the Akhira more than the dunya,

and so Xristendom arose in all its split fury.

With us it was always all about enslaving men and women

correctly, that they might be free.

Le Marok sous un brouillard français

dont les points de repères

sont déterminés de Paris

se reveillera le matin de clarté Arabe

et Amazighia; ou risque le chemin socialiste

de guerre civile sanglant de son voisin peut-être.

Vive le cool Cherif royale!

To set the hearts of those of other deens at rest

mention must be made anew that he arrived

by the joining of opposites –

so the rubbish protecting the El Jadida strand is equal

to the cleanliness of the further stretch at Ain Diab

with its outwardly spick and span wino, zina tourists.

Saltimbalque symbolique des animaux

Frosch: ‘It’s been a long time rising from the swamp of the nafs’. ‘O the nafs again’ responded brightly Frogin. ‘Then lets play leapy leapy, en marche, forwards, upwards, to clear water, from one divine indication to another, for there’s no time for complacency. Perhaps the bush is His joke at the ape-ists, and we’ve not yet found our place in the muslimo-cretio-judeo Zivilisation’.

While Abu Hamama washed away

people’s passions from without and within

his self

he understood why Nabucco built such magnificent baths

and kept the vast vessels of King Sulaiman ibn Daud.

The joining of opposites

O you who move with firm intent

to join the orchestral chorus:

spontanéité killed the kat

of future plans

kovering too well the quiver of meanings

of the moment of submission

to ineluctubility and the breeze of freiheit.