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1. Emergentist Monism then, is the assertion that reality is organised in accordance with hierarchies of complexity, where at each maqaam [level], we have a set of irreducible properties that we can call real.

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Promethean Sufism or go home.

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Enough with “what is permitted”. Talk to me about what is possible.

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O Anon, why forego the Dunya when you could elevate it instead?

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Born too late to die for the Prophet at Badr, born too early to die for the Mahdi at Afiq. We are the children of the Faith’s Winter, Anon. But fret not: it is our duty to build, build, build. We will see the Sun rise again.

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How silly to want to return to the past. Return instead to your ancestors’ dreams of the future, o Anon. Come with me, we go together.

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All roads lead back to God.

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Islam is a fruit of the desert. It’s emergence from desolation and hostility is itself a symbol of the moment of Creation itself. Something from nothing. Kun faya kun.

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The Word of God is written on two pages: Scripture and Nature. He who wishes to approach God must therefore study both. The study of Scripture is Theology. The study of Nature is Mathematics.

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Fret not, fear never. I’ll see you again for Dhikr on Ganymede before we are dust.

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This obsession with permissibility is no doubt the consequence of a people’s spirit so thoroughly mutilated that they’re willing to die to defend the right to be told what to do.

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Don’t you dream of taking Taqwa to Mars, Anon? When will Olympus Mons be graced with your sujud?

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We are fortunate for every day we get to bear Witness.

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Great ancestors demand great descendants. Therefore, do your duty, boys and girls.

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Salaam and gm, everybody. Another day ad majorem Dei Gloriam.

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From barrenness, bring life. Do it as a testament to your Lord.

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Salaam and gm everybody. Another day, another opportunity to turn nothing into something in honour of God.

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"What is forbidden, is forbidden only because of its banality." Choose Beauty, for God is Beautiful.

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Always ridiculous to hear suggestions from the Ulema that our failures are a consequence of deficiencies in Iman. The mosques are full. If anything, it’s basically everything else we’re lacking.

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Deen over Dunya is naturally an injunction to delayed gratification. It’s narrow minded to interpret this as purely the Afterlife>Life: better to be scale-invariant, instead, and apply it everywhere.

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The mass functionalisation of public spaces is just market failure ie systemic shortsightedness. Beauty inspires, inspiration is its own utility.

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Childish to presuppose that instrumental alliance with any side in the Culture Wars will result in any meaningful benefit or goodwill for the Believers. The fact remains: the West’s issues have little to do with us, and our position ought to generally be strategic indifference.

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Even my despair at the state of the Ummah is a product of my temporality and distance from the Divine. In the face of the Eternal, what is a few centuries of humiliation? To remember God, then, is to smile and persevere on the long Straight Path to posterity.

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If you truly believe the Faith is VNVRSL, then you must conclude: if Islam belonged in the past, then it subsides in the present and must become indigenous to the future. It is Prophecy. So it has been written, so it will be done.

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“Matter in service to Idea.” “And Idea in service to the Divine, o Anon.”

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It is tragic that so much intellectualism amongst Muslims is still devoted to coming to grips with, and “responding” to modernity. It’s been 3 centuries; if we’re still befuddled with the present, how can we hope to step forth into the future?

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Reactionarism is nothing but cowardice. Your fear of the future doesn't stop it from coming. Why run from the inevitable, when you can become it instead, my dear Anon?

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Remember, O Anon, your dreams are behind the veil of your commitment.

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I dream of Kardashev Type II Zawiyas. The stars hum the Name of God, O Anon. Don’t you want to listen to them with me?

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Iftar at my place here in 50 years, all of you welcome.

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Sunrise on Mars NASA

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Salaam and gm, everybody. Another day ad majorem Dei Gloriam.

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Salaam and gm, everybody. Another day, another opportunity to commit to ihsan/excellence. God is great.

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“Every one of you is a shepherd, and is responsible for his flock.” — the Holy Prophet

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The indomitable reactionarism this spiritual oppression elicits is atleast as, maybe more, destructive. Nothing good will come of Tate retweets and attempts to establish tinpot khilafah in a Bradford boxing gym. The injunction is to Inspiration, not vulgarity.

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This obsession with permissibility is no doubt the consequence of a people’s spirit so thoroughly mutilated that they’re willing to die to defend the right to be told what to do.

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“Guys only want 1 thing and it’s” To be the Sword of Allah?! To be the Pen of Qadr?!

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Remember: Salvation is our Destiny. But then again, what are we but the agents of Destiny?

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How silly to let the scale and complexity of the Cosmos make you feel small. Feel fortunate instead that there’s so much to explore, understand, and achieve. God does not owe you intelligibility, but offers it nonetheless. In this is not only God’s Majesty, but also His Mercy.

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This is the single greatest image of the earth ever taken. On Valentine's day in 1990, Voyager 1 turned around to capture the earth one last time from 3.7 billion miles.

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Courage takes many forms. The most banal are the hardest.

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Salaam and gm, everybody. Another day to commit to excellence to.

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The West is falling, Anon? Who cares. Better to compete than complain.

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The Axis Mundi calls out for you, Anon. It sits not only in space, not only in time, but beyond them both.

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“Respect, Honesty, Courage, Rectitude, Loyalty, Honour and Benevolence.” — Tsunetomo, Hagakure

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Remember, o Anon, all vision starts off as fiction. Good fictions don’t stay that way long. That’s what we’re trying to do here: conceive good fictions.

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Salaam and gm, everybody. Another day ad majorem Dei Gloriam.

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Something most people don’t understand about the imposition of structure is that it ought to expand the range of global possibilities even if it restricts local possibility.

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I wouldn’t give ourselves too much credit though; Iman is easy to maintain when drowntrodden. Better to have the confidence to test ourselves with success.

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To be torn asunder between my impulse to accelerate history to crystallise prophecy, and the apprehension of immanentising the Eschaton. But as we know, dear Anon, there is no Wrath without Mercy. So, let us find out for ourselves.

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The greatest trick modern secularism pulled on us was convincing us that all we can see and touch is all there is. It must be lonely in such a reductive world.

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The Anthropic Principle is simply Amor Fati restated. Things are as they are because they couldn’t be any other way. It is the Will of God.

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Transcend both your materialism and your asceticism. In the search for Divine Countenance, they’re the very same thing.

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Dive in.

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What is the point of our struggle if not for peace, o Anon?

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Most political visions are dismissible purely by virtue of ugliness. My God is beautiful, so should you be alone, so should we be together. In beauty, observe truth, and in truth, beauty.

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Insan al Kabir and Insan al Saghir.

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God forbid you’d have to think for yourself, or actually engage with the ideals of your tradition. Agency and its horrors.

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Salaam and gm everybody. Another day ad majorem Dei Gloriam.

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It is a matter of great frustration that “Revivalism” is often conflated with reactionary fundamentalism. Do not do as the greats did, seek what they sought, as AHM noted.

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Plan, therefore, for the next moment over this one, tomorrow over today, next year over this year, for your children over yourselves, and for posterity over the present. Why only the AfterLife when you can have all that’s between, too? My God has given it to us. Waste not.

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@NeuroMaliki More generally, we’ve entirely dispensed with curiosity as a fundamental virtue. Too much talent is pigeonholed in careers out of generational risk aversion. Gone are any commitments to fundamental science and art: hordes of uninspired programmers and doctors instead.

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The meaning behind symbols are themselves symbols. It’s symbols all the way up. What lies at the end of this Ascent? The Veil waits to be lifted.

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Unity in eternality, and Multiplicity in the present. Your God, anon, is Transcendence itself as He is Immanence itself.

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Gotta be careful of Islam instrumentalised in service of ideological antiwokeness. The Algerian boxer’s been a good litmus test for these types.

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The circularity of the Tawaf around the Kaaba and the linearity of the Sa’i from Safa to Marwa oft remind me of the helical arc of history. That despite the evolution inherent in progress, we are to remain eternally in thrall to the Divine. Always seeking, always returning.

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Rumi was right. What you seek, O Anon, is seeking you. Reach.

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Salaam and gm, everybody. Another day ad majorem Dei Gloriam.

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“Give up waiting for the Mahdi - the Saviour. Go and create him, instead.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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@AFpost “O young man! Be sensible! You are getting nowhere. Most of you will follow anyone who makes a noise or clamor …You are blind, so how can you guide others? You have been blinded by your passions and by your love of this world, your prominent position and your desires.” — Jilani

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Wander the ruins, o Anon. In there you’ll find the embers of beauty past. Beauty that we will reflect into the future.

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Something tragic about our intellectual class is the bifurcation of attention to either questionable metaphysical concerns or knee-jerk reactions to perceived insult in the news cycle. The pendulum swings between irrelevance or insecurity.

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“But only the desire to seek the Countenance of the Lord, Most High.”

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Salaam and gm, everybody. Another day ad majorem Dei Gloriam.

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@IbnMaghrebi They still have capital punishment, it’ll be fine

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Equanimity in the face of catastrophe. After all, what is this life but dreams and dust?

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Salaam and gm, everybody. Another day ad majorem Dei Gloriam.

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“He is eternal and infinite; that is, His duration reaches from eternity to eternity; His presence from infinity to infinity; He governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done.” — Isaac Newton You, Anon, who squirm in your heart at God’s Grace, are not alone.

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Argument is overrated, runs up against the ego’s self defence instinct. Leading by example better, engages ego’s self-interest mechanism. The masses will have to be seduced all the way to paradise.

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Salaam and gm, everybody. Another day ad majorem Dei Gloriam.

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Brb, fine tuning the Technologies of my Self. “The self is not a drop in the ocean; it is the ocean in a drop.” — Iqbal, Asrar e Khudi

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The whisper of Qismat.

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My God veils Himself behind sheathes of starlight. He is waiting for us to find Him. Look within, yes. But certainly don’t forget to look up.

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Each soldier is tightly constrained, but an army can accomplish vastly more than a mob. If the law doesn’t expand the scope of global possibility, it is not law, simply tyranny.

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Stars, symbols, and meaning, my friends.

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The Rosette Nebula, some say depicts a human skull

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How can one not smile when thinking of Divine Timelines? Trust the Plan, become its instrument.

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Wabi Sabi, but for the soul.

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@TheSp34R A 2/5 chickenshop and an eviction notice does not a kingdom maketh, dear boy.

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Salaam and gm, everybody. Another day ad majorem Dei Gloriam.

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If Physics is the search for a minimal length description of Reality as Outer (Zahir), then Tasawwuf is the search for a minimal length description of Reality as Inner (Batin).

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Anon, is that inspiration I see?

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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour” — W Blake Brother Blake spitting bars with an iota of Kashf.

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The aniconism of the faith is not an injunction against visual expression. Contrarily, it’s an injunction to put aside mundanity and physicality and instead concern ourselves with abstractions. It’s a restatement of Deen over Dunya for those of you with understanding.

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If you have to focus on the mundane and vulgar, do it only in the name of self-sufficiency. It’s past time we left the culture wars behind.

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O Anon, can’t you see that the Divine winks at you every time the stars twinkle? Smile back.

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As Eckhart notes, there is just one eye: that with which I see my God, and with which He sees me.

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Wilayat Al Takwiniyyah, O Anon. Believe, but go further. See for yourself.

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The “Christians” on here who fetishise crusade are so trite, it’s almost charming the way children are. How to miss the wood for the trees, how to long for a civilisation and abnegate the Divine for whom it was dedicated.

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“History is a sort of applied ethics. If ethics is to be an experimental science, it must be based on the revelations of human experience.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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To withdraw, when God has placed you in a world of means, is itself a desire of the flesh.

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Instead, value is created at the barzakh between principle and practice; no doubt that's where we need to call home.

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@Omarnksa I have no time for myself when I am of little faith. Why should you? We will paint the Name of God across the sky, and if not us, then our children, and if not them, then theirs. God, I am told, is the best of Planners.

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Give me hyperbolic Mihrabs. A walnut from which I can count myself witness to Infinite Space.

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