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.