Ce qui a été raconté concernant le taqwa – du Muwatta d’Imam Malik.

Anas bin Malik a dit: ‘J’étais sorti avec ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab’ jusqu’à un verger dans lequel il est entré, et je l’ai entendu se dire – il y avait un mur entre nous alors qu’il avait penetré jusqu’au milieu du jardin, ”Umar ibn al-Khattab, Amir des Muminun, Bravo! Bravo! par Allah, O Ibn al-Khattab, soyez sûr d’avoir du taqwa d’Allah de peur qu’Il ne vous punisse.’

From Imam malik, may Allah be pleased with him, in his Muwatta: ‘al-Qaasim bin Muhammad used to say, “I met a group of people [i.e. the Companions] who were not impressed by words”‘. Malik said, ‘What he is referring to is action: they do not look at what a person says but rather what he does.’

Et même Faust voyait la primauté de l’acte sur le logos:

Mir hilft der Geist! Auf einmal seh’ ich Rat und schreibe getrost: Im Anfang war die Tat!

L’esprit m’aide ! Soudain, je vois des conseils et écris avec assurance : Au commencement était l’acte !

Strange contemporary Mutazilites cannot admit of His breaking the very rules of logic and ever-recurring laws of nature and of the skies which He has created for the ongoing well-being of mankind – that is the order, patterning and customary practice dear to the fitra of the middlemost human creature which is inherent in life itself. Long live the Ash’aris!

And O for the return of holydays, far from the flippancy of singles-, kids- and womens’-days and the oncreep of the kobalds of halaween over that churchy-scourge luther.

From the intimate eye to eye nose-greeting welcome of the Bedouin or the hongi of the Maoris – no chance of missing a piercing glance into the heart of the man’s matter – to the handshake of salutation, acknowledgement, and trade, to the mutual nodding or elbowing of separation. How long before the distant wave? Towns of Lowry’s men and women. Es lebe die Intimität!

Or: ‘Novel’s Commencement: Hayy ibn Yaqdhan‘; or ‘News from Italy’; or ‘The Romance of the Cave’.

Comfort for the Paranoid: with little discrimation left in humanistic circles the flood of data is rendered meaningless.

While the Shifa’ of Qadi ‘Iyad is all you need for a return to furqan, once you have it, once fitra is recovered, then action on the auto-pilot of natural behaviour is imperative, the ‘amal of the people of Madina in the Muwatta’ or of those of the Cave.

‘Whole societies have passed away before your time, so travel about the earth and see the final fate of the deniers’ The Family of ‘Imran: 137.

De loin en loin, quelques personnages à turban passaient en longeant les murs, et aucune tête de femme ne se montrait derrière les grillages discrets des haramlikes… L’or etait un moyen de m’attacher ce va-nu-pieds, mais j’en avais peu… Puisse Allah accorder longue vie au Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid, qui fait revivre les grandes fêtes religieuses, les grandes solennités de l’islam ; Stamboul illuminé chaque soir, le Bosphore éclairé aux feux de Bengale, les dernières lueurs de l’Orient qui s’en va, une féerie à grand spectacle que sans doute on ne reverra plus… ‘Vive le Sultan!… vive la constitution… vive la guerre…’ enivrés de se croire libres… et, seuls, quelques vieux Turcs qui se souvenaient du passé haussaient les épaules…

La Scène:

In short, the turbans, women in Freiheit, gold and Sultaniyya [albeit mit constitution auf der Lauer], veiled degeneracy plus a mélange of kabaa’ir cum finesse of Loti, buried a stone’s throw from Abu Ayub and Ahmet Necib Fazil Kisakürek radiAllah ‘anhuma. Less than a century and a half ago. Progress in five generations: to the Rémy Martin on pavement display and glittering, volatile exchange boards, manifestly free assorted Dirndl and official loud-speaker religion sans deen, sans teeth…

King Con Korona test required in Istanbul by German authorities but not recognised on arrival in Berlin; further KCK test [far from the slick, high tech. one of Havalimani IST – test result in hours] in a military camp at Tegel, not recognised on the Baltic coast, and anyway so low-tech [no internet, test results in 3 days] as to be of no benefit. Fast-changing laws keep the officials in ignorance and some, mostly women, on their toes. A further test in five days. Kaaos at the Local Health Authorities: each official in each country in each state knew his little bit of info. – the whole puzzlepic. too boring to imagine; and in the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education for each has its own KCK parameters which may conflict, and KCK quarentine times for risk area Bavaria are shorter than risk area Turkey for example, despite having a lower case rate; even the Bild-Zeitung is not exagerrating this time, and starwar drive-ins with hazmat-suited robotic medics make for schöne Fotos. Pharma-Phirdaus cum mafia cum mathematical profits, the latest magic which can only really be warded of by spitting over the left shoulder, as before the staging of Macbeth. Vive the unpious Shaykhs striving with taqwa, and may the grandest of them be read.

Du musée Hagia Sofia au Mescid Aya Sofia, va-t-il s’assoir sur le trône du palais Topkapi?

Unhinged from all celestial directives the modus vivendi of current folk is reduced to drawing its vitality from the semi-official state organ, as Pravda might say, of Germany’s Mirror which is nothing else but what the Quran indicates as the outpouring of the nafs, i.e. the seething coagulation of the desires and whims of the lower self, the lowest common denominater, which changes, nay, has the right to change, from moment to moment, day to day: it sets the tone, asks the questions and promulgates the new draft laws. You will pay the penalty for not wearing a watch: if you are not careful, its timetable will change impetuously; pay the penalty for not being au fait with the latest media pronouncements; for missing the continual updating of the law-book. This weekly Ode to the State must be balanced with its own Requiem, reflected in song in the degeneration of its readers for:

It does not urge to sprightliness in the salat, dignity in comportment or Blitzschnelligkeit in action after a moment’s pause for reflection.

‘If We Had sent down this Qur’an onto a mountain, you would have seen it humbled, crushed to pieces out of fear of Allah. We make such examples for people so that hopefully they will reflect.’ The Gathering: 21

It is narrated that the father of Imam Malik, may Allah be pleased with him, married a woman and when he entered her marriage room he discovered she was black. He remained in thought and did not approach her. She then said to him, “Did you make istikhaara of Allah?” to which he replied, “Yes”. She then said, “Do you have any doubts as to your Lord?” – then he had sexual intercourse with her and she became pregnant with Imam Malik.

The Imam of Dar al-Hijra’s mother was black, Quran is a mainstream, the Mirror is an ooze.

And was it not MH who said that if thinking does not lead to pravda then it is not thinking?

She of Chiaravalle introduced “cosmic education” to describe an approach for children that emphasized the interdependence of all the elements of the natural world; she encouraged children’s spontaneous activity with plants and animals in their natural environments – preferably in the open air; e dio non era assente.

But meanwhile in the 30 – plus one, mark you! – degrees of the Baltic version, structures and policy prevented the migration from the upper, too-sunlit rooms to the cooling shade of the chestnut trees in the yard below; schulfrei was the cry.

The neo extremism of surburbia taking out mini grassshoots from between the flagstones of the public pavement with a flamethrower eradicator from the baumarkt before the chintzed privacy of his windows may yet lead to trouble.

The baraka of the negligible is the increase of the mumin and far from insignificant.

The penal code is truly democrat within its books for all fall within its purview whether your pass-partout is of the land or of elsewhere.

One can only supplicate that he may make a change of tender as a seal to the change from a museum to the mosque of Inviolable Wisdom; however the smoke screen of outrage may prevent this more social, more beneficial move.

Through the wondrous eyes of the child he saw the sea’s horizon as the crest of a gigantic waterfall.

To the Gulf, a naseeha: less sugar, less words, more action, for the language of theology might well be misunderstood – for how many might fathom, ‘He is at pains to defend the justice of Allah by qualifying the absolute judgement of Allah [championed by the extremist position] by first declaring that the imposition of duties on the slaves of Allah is never heavier than they can bear and secondly that the capability for anything does not precede or accompany actions as such – for the capacity of any person is not an essential part of his being: he may or may not have it at any given moment, just as he may or not possess knowledge. Thus a person may only be held to account as long as the duty incumbent on him does not surpass his strength to bear it; moreover given that any given human capacity is not an essential part of the slave’s being, but rather subject to alteration and flux, Allah in his justice would not judge him in an absolute manner’;

and how many might overlook even la ilaaha illallah of the language of ‘aqida through over-familiarity;

so only the language of love might ensnare them, the pansies and pensées des Fleurs du Mal.

‘Beware of envy’ said the Father of the Cat, ‘for it devours good actions just as fire devours wood or grass’.

There is a tendency to still be polite when talking to robots and any habit of omitting the please and thank-you’s is also prejudicial to human speech.

‘And where are the free now?’ said Little Eva; did we ride in vain?

‘Washed up on the shore beneath the gourd, safe and sound, with the flotsam and jetsam of turbulent years behind them’.

‘In acknowledgment of the established tradition of Quraysh, their tradition of the winter and summer caravans: so let them worship the Lord of this House who has preserved them from hunger and secured them from fear’ and in recognition of the leaf they moved to Havana to call the volk to the Creator of that which had once joined those extirpated tribes in peace.