03.086
The annalist cannot understand kingship; the analyst cannot understand kinship.
`We have ennobled the progeny of Adam.'
03.086
The annalist cannot understand kingship; the analyst cannot understand kinship.
`We have ennobled the progeny of Adam.'
02.011
True religion invites us to become better people. False religion tells us that
this has already occurred.
02.027
Islam is the way of God wherever Sufism is the way of God.
05.088
Tawakkul: the lock, as well as the key, is a revelation.
03.085
We want to make religion as small as ourselves; just as we have made our homes
as ugly as ourselves.
10.096
Peace at any price? Not at any price.
02.028
The hijra was the only exodus into extroversion.
09.078
Irritation is from sin.
05.035
Literalism: have you seen him that worships God on a harf?
02.012
Our faces are a prediction.
05.053
Popular culture dwells in deep pockets.
06.018
God was the beginning, and He still is.
01.058
The Tawaf is about Abraham, the Sa`y is about Hagar. Only in Islam is a woman
the initiator of a form of worship.
06.086
The greatest subtraction is the claim that all addition is subtraction.
05.097
The Church is the bride of Christ'. But he was too generous to be a
monogamist.
02.018
The miracle of mundanity. (Rembrandt, The Holy Family.)
10.024
Knowledge is to see the door. Penitence is to approach it. Prayer is to knock
upon it. But to open it is not within your power.
10.093
England chose the Sira, not the Gospel, to confront Hitler.
06.020
Arabic equals Sanskrit plus history, equals Greek minus tragedy.
07.085
The secular are just like everyone else, only less so.
03.097
Those who curse do not transform; those who do not curse transform.
10.028
Our condition is ignorance of our condition.
06.097
Experience love before you contemplate the metaphors.
08.033
The false Salafi should disbelieve in angels.
06.041
The purpose of holiness is the sanctification of God's name.
08.069
One is to rejoice at non-membership of the culture that is Earth's enemy.
04.002
The alternative to Calvinism does not need to be Jansenism.
01.015
Islamic modernism: a danse macabre flirting with the spiritual death of the
Enlightenment.
01.029
Closet converts are the malamatiyya: they know, but are not known.
01.028
British religious painting: why this indifference to the Passion?