He had wanted plastic art, then that of music, then was hauled to words:

O landscape of the night! you set a form of order to the darkness by the watches of isha, the sunna, tahajjud, fajr and subh;

so he took his tent with him wherever he went and joined the Bedouin.

His doing-without only brought increase; he remembered the paucity and anxiousness of the times of covetousness. “The good is in a little which lasts, continues and goes on” – and shall be found where greedy eyes have deemed it too small.

The beach was chock-a-block and very hot so she removed her veil to better camouflage her swim.

His opposite Names of non-opposition and the words of ad-dadd, الاضاد changing from half full to half empty perhaps, like the marhaban of welcome and its opposite of unwelcomeness.

‘My disconfort from torridness is the confort of the mangos while my shiver at the cold is the delight of the snow’ he added.

Questi mostri, col sorgere del sole, si erano rintanati in zone non cosciente; Donnafugata era vicina ormai con il suo palazzo, con le sue acque zampillanti, con i ricordi dei suoi antenati santi, con l’impressione che essa dava di perennità del’infanza.

William Butler Yeats spoke of Wagner’s words over music – and remember they chose Tolkien over Wagner, Abu Hamam sped in surf over waves over water, and yet a third admired the majestic and the magnificent lions of elegies 4 and 6 in Sils Maria, all rendering intelligible the oft khaotic spontaneity of pulsating events in their story telling, not far from those historians revealing the ever recurring sameness of things through time.

And so he thanked the author, poet, story teller and historian for entertaining and imposing an order which allowed a letting go to enable the swimming of the relaxed and smiling folk around the island of pain and passion.

Yeats ha parlato delle parole di Wagner sulla musica - e ricorda che hanno scelto Tolkien invece di Wagner, Abu Hamam sfrecciava nel surf sulle onde sopra l'acqua, eppure un terzo ha ammirato i maestosi e magnifici leoni delle elegie 4 e 6 a Sils Maria, rendendo comprensibile la spontaneità spesso khaotica di eventi pulsanti nel loro racconto, non lontano da quegli storici che rivelano l'identità sempre ricorrente delle cose nel tempo. 

E così ha ringraziato l'autore, il poeta, il narratore e lo storico per intrattenere e imporre un ordine che ha permesso di lasciarsi andare per consentire il nuoto della gente rilassata e sorridente intorno all'isola di dolore e passione. 

He always awoke at eight, a numbersman, compared the calories and the energy expended, unaware summer had come; but today the numbercounter was out of action and he woke unawares at dawn to discover the flawed peach was written for another and his vigour beyond compare;

the apple core on the path for a faqir;

perhaps ‘the ruin with all its trellises fallen in’ for himself.

When all is well and attachment to the dunya grows stronger fear of death increases.

He read of all the ‘international civil wars’ and thought of cold fire, and how may an Arabic word ends in its opposite meaning: the coining of words important for both sides, for those of submission and those of covering up.

And learnt that bewilderment drives one to the Lord, weakness to His power and the Ungereimheiten of his fellow men and women to the fantasies of his own nafs.

He sat for three hours in the Sh.’s morning room wandering in what it meant,

just the blackbird on green for company and the occasional siamese,

only afterwards he recognised Him as the Actor.

‘His mercy precedes His anger’, so no regret, as Edith said.

‘Those are suspicious’ he said, ‘those eating en famille à dix ou douze between parked cars, at this motorway rest place. They are foreign’. The cuckoo sings but lays its eggs in another’s nest. They have left the middle strip and found themselves in Europa, but will she embrace them? Will they her?

‘Where is the one charged with unearthly matters, the designated priest?’, ‘disappeared, it seems’. ‘But no, there he swims in the workers’ pool.’ ‘But we have no workers only slaves.’ ‘The workers are to come, those constrained in technique, when the Supreme I.Q. shall imitate man and women – and for many will be indistinguishable, until the day the SIQ realises that fitra is of the earth, contained in the Messenger on whom be peace and blessings, no numbers there, and so bust his main fuse on the primal server in a shower of beautiful sparks.’

Said the priest, ‘The person who shall be punished the most severely on the Day of Standing before the Lord is the alim whose knowledge does not benefit himself.’

He sat for three hours in the Sh.’s morning room wandering in what it meant,

just the blackbird on green for company and the occasional siamese,

only afterwards he recognised Him as the Actor.

‘His mercy precedes His anger’, so no regret, as Edith said.

‘Those are suspicious’ he said, ‘those eating en famille à dix ou douze between parked cars, at this motorway rest place. They are foreign’. The cuckoo sings but lays its eggs in another’s nest. They have left the middle strip and found themselves in Europa, but will she embrace them? Will they her?

‘Where is the one charged with unearthly matters, the designated priest?’, ‘disappeared, it seems’. ‘But no, there he swims in the workers’ pool.’ ‘But we have no workers only slaves.’ ‘The workers are to come, those constrained in technique, when the Supreme I.Q. shall imitate man and women – and for many will be indistinguishable, until the day the SIQ realises that fitra is of the earth, contained in the Messenger on whom be peace and blessings, no numbers there, and so bust his main fuse on the primal server in a shower of beautiful sparks.’

Said the priest, ‘The person who shall be punished the most severely on the Day of Standing before the Lord is the alim whose knowledge does not benefit himself.’

He sat for three hours in the Sh.’s morning room wandering in what it meant,

just the blackbird on green for company and the occasional siamese,

only afterwards he recognised Him as the Actor.

‘His mercy precedes His anger’, so no regret, as Edith said.

‘Those are suspicious’ he said, ‘those eating en famille à dix ou douze between parked cars, at this motorway rest place. They are foreign’. The cuckoo sings but lays its eggs in another’s nest. They have left the middle strip and found themselves in Europa, but will she embrace them? Will they her?

‘Where is the one charged with unearthly matters, the designated priest?’, ‘disappeared, it seems’. ‘But no, there he swims in the workers’ pool.’ ‘But we have no workers only slaves.’ ‘The workers are to come, those constrained in technique, when the Supreme I.Q. shall imitate man and women – and for many will be indistinguishable, until the day the SIQ realises that fitra is of the earth, contained in the Messenger on whom be peace and blessings, no numbers there, and so bust his main fuse on the primal server in a shower of beautiful sparks.’

Said the priest, ‘The person who shall be punished the most severely on the Day of Standing before the Lord is the alim whose knowledge does not benefit himself.’

He sat for three hours in the Sh.’s morning room wandering in what it meant,

just the blackbird on green for company and the occasional siamese,

only afterwards he recognised Him as the Actor.

‘His mercy precedes His anger’, so no regret, as Edith said.

‘Those are suspicious’ he said, ‘those eating en famille à dix ou douze between parked cars, at this motorway rest place. They are foreign’. The cuckoo sings but lays its eggs in another’s nest. They have left the middle strip and found themselves in Europa, but will she embrace them? Will they her?

‘Where is the one charged with unearthly matters, the designated priest?’, ‘disappeared, it seems’. ‘But no, there he swims in the workers’ pool.’ ‘But we have no workers only slaves.’ ‘The workers are to come, those constrained in technique, when the Supreme I.Q. shall imitate man and women – and for many will be indistinguishable, until the day the SIQ realises that fitra is of the earth, contained in the Messenger on whom be peace and blessings, no numbers there, and so bust his main fuse on the primal server in a shower of beautiful sparks.’

Said the priest, ‘The person who shall be punished the most severely on the Day of Standing before the Lord is the alim whose knowledge does not benefit himself.’

or a meshing of cross references.

Anchorites of Skipton of Lady Clifford were not people of the wood, no trekkers, but close by their withdrawing;

on occasion, even the performance of ‘itikaaf overcame the Waldgänger, to affirm their core, revealing what was to be done.

‘Look at the outcome of previous civilisations’ He ta’ala says, and how much grander must be the outcome of past Messengers, awliya and fuqara, the traces of the first still with us, the traces of the latter who left no traces still with us.

Control is control and trust is trust, so learn to swim the teacher of ad-Darqawi had said, and he of course meant it. Control is preoccupation with the dunya, and may or may not lead to acquisitions; trust is acceptance of the gifts emerging from the dunya and so a profound activation of the deen; letztendlich, there can be no split, the two wings flap in harmony and it is He who supports them both – just a question of balance.

Movable feast my foot, not here, not a trace remaining; even the movable feast of the Eid is fast sclerotisizing.

and Goya unleashed His generosity: voided the heart of the dunya to allow His entrance,

only to be refilled once more with the overflowing pink of a scented rose, and onward to him, on whom be peace, in the dunya – for with balance there can be no difference, the two wings in balance, ready for flight.