This moment will be known as Firas’s firāsaḧ of his forty day ḥāl when he produced daily bangers. There is something so satisfactory when a stranger on the other side of the world is verbatim expressing one's own thoughts.
Change can be uncomfortable but inescapable. Sometimes it is within our control, frequently we feel we ought to be in control but feel disheartened when we realise our impotence. We are in control of our attitude and behaviour. We should be sensitive about how our own actions that cause change may make others feel too. I think here of irresponsible immigration policies and the knee jerk reaction of anglophone Moslems (who are typically of immigrant heritage) to cry any call for limitations as ‘racist’. Irresponsible immigration has disfigured high streets here in London over the decades. We should be sensitive to the sentiments of those who have been longer settled here. To do so could be called adab and akhlāq. Of course, immigration (done carelessly) is tied to economics and other such matters done badly.
In any case, the juncture at which post-Ottomanites find themselves with (post-)modernity presents either RVTURN or ‘assimilate’. The earth belongs to God and it is vast. The way beyond is through and over. Tradition is not just parroting the past. Tradition is a spirit and light. It accompanies as the unchanging aspect of the divine the new strategies that have to be adopted, be it digging trenches or redesigning global cyber infrastructure, manufacturing processes and public transport. Tradition as water will be sublimated in its earthly form as liquid, gas or solid as the situation requires. There are no contradictions between those different forms. Sometimes to make a larger opponent topple is not to push but pull. Modernity enquires will it be faster and more profitable. The inherited wisdom of the prophets enquires is it right or wrong. Justice must be done graciously and beautifully too.
Justice requires us to rethink what we call ‘racism’ - a term only a hundred years old (according to the footnotes in one of the recent Brown books). We can talk about historic slavery done ethically and unethically. Perhaps the enquiry ought to be extended to what we today call ‘racism’ too. And God knows best. May he guide us all to what is best in this life and beyond.
This moment will be known as Firas’s firāsaḧ of his forty day ḥāl when he produced daily bangers. There is something so satisfactory when a stranger on the other side of the world is verbatim expressing one's own thoughts.
Change can be uncomfortable but inescapable. Sometimes it is within our control, frequently we feel we ought to be in control but feel disheartened when we realise our impotence. We are in control of our attitude and behaviour. We should be sensitive about how our own actions that cause change may make others feel too. I think here of irresponsible immigration policies and the knee jerk reaction of anglophone Moslems (who are typically of immigrant heritage) to cry any call for limitations as ‘racist’. Irresponsible immigration has disfigured high streets here in London over the decades. We should be sensitive to the sentiments of those who have been longer settled here. To do so could be called adab and akhlāq. Of course, immigration (done carelessly) is tied to economics and other such matters done badly.
In any case, the juncture at which post-Ottomanites find themselves with (post-)modernity presents either RVTURN or ‘assimilate’. The earth belongs to God and it is vast. The way beyond is through and over. Tradition is not just parroting the past. Tradition is a spirit and light. It accompanies as the unchanging aspect of the divine the new strategies that have to be adopted, be it digging trenches or redesigning global cyber infrastructure, manufacturing processes and public transport. Tradition as water will be sublimated in its earthly form as liquid, gas or solid as the situation requires. There are no contradictions between those different forms. Sometimes to make a larger opponent topple is not to push but pull. Modernity enquires will it be faster and more profitable. The inherited wisdom of the prophets enquires is it right or wrong. Justice must be done graciously and beautifully too.
Justice requires us to rethink what we call ‘racism’ - a term only a hundred years old (according to the footnotes in one of the recent Brown books). We can talk about historic slavery done ethically and unethically. Perhaps the enquiry ought to be extended to what we today call ‘racism’ too. And God knows best. May he guide us all to what is best in this life and beyond.