One can only forgive the ignorance of the priests and orientalists who way back in centuries past fatefully initiated the translation of the word deen as religion for it was but ignorance and incapacity to see beyond their own existential and linguistic state:  frogs can see only the pond and the surrounding bank, can only croak. So the sight of an ocean for them would be a kind of pond, the shore a bank denuded of green, and the cry of the gull a foreign croak.  But O how great the schism in vim and vibrancy arising from this myopia, split into two separate parts – ‘no sex in the church of the market’ – until today. No recognition of the slivery changes from jelly to black mass and culinary forms, no recognition of the amfibious nature; all contained in frogginess. And how great the morbid, legalised fear of joining the two parts in healthy 1-ness. The spiritual bubbles of Makka and Madina within the wastes of riba are almost upon us.

al Quds

He ta’ala may open up the al-Quds flower of memories with the water which had distilled them during past actions of ignorance, and O what a gift in the here and now: the fragrance of meanings manifest after mists of the slave’s personal mismanagement, affirming his helpless Decree. An alternative to the killing and anger in Falestine as the Shaykh has made clear is gold and silver instead of paper shekhels and multiple wives, and many, many births instead of suicide.

Stale bread for the poor and why not?  Had He, ta’ala, wished it He would have kept it fresh forever as related in His Book. Stale bread for the poor might be tastier at times: no price or inked and holographed paper.

Of course things can take time to happen after a dua – for the angels to carry out the commands with adab:  so the fellow slaves involved at the time of the slave’s making the dua may be accommodated with lutf.

This is the wisdom of the five categories of haram, makrouh, mubaah, mustahabb and waajib: that the faqih, that is the balanced, healthy man of fitra and intellect, is free of the angst of uncertainty as to whether he has strayed too near the border now.

All women and men are alike in fitra, how they differ from humanism is their elevation and ranks.

Superiority in numbers does not count, but rather sublimity of character.

The solid state of the State lends yet more space and breadth to the firdaus of the deen. Constriction teaches expansion.

The arena of the people of the wool is the nafs because protected by the fuqara.

The people of this territory are known for cleanliness so they are waiting for the next phase:

Wudu, salat and a Shaykh from the west. Nawawi reminds us that they are brothers and sisters for being bashar of bani Adam like us, and Allah ta’ala reminds us that He has only created different tribes in order to get to know them.