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?