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.