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“In Islam, prayer is a full- body experience: you stand, bow, stand, kneel with your forehead to the ground, and stand again repeating a variation of this cycle several times You become part of a mathematical algorithm linking earthly and heavenly bodies. Your calendar is based on the phases of the moon, your daily prayers on the movement of the sun across the sky. Mecca becomes an idea with a location. You orient yourself toward it not with a compass, but with a Great Circle, calculating the shortest distance between the spot where you stand and the Kaaba, the shrine in Mecca believed to be built by Abraham.”
― The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
― The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
“In a moment of clarity, once, Kacey told me that time spent in addiction feels looped. Each morning brings with it the possibility of change, each evening the shame of failure. The only task becomes the seeking of the fix. Every dose is a parabola, low-high-low; and every day a series of these waves; and then the days themselves become chartable, according to how much time, in sum, the user spends in comfort or in pain; and then the months.”
― Long Bright River
― Long Bright River
“Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.”
― Alif the Unseen
― Alif the Unseen
“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence. This is the equation.”
― Averroes: Antología
― Averroes: Antología
“God is the sovereign because He literally owns everything. Human ownership of any kind, including the absolutely unencumbered ownership of property, is merely metaphorical and ultimately unreal. It is at best derivative of the original state of sovereign ownership. (This explains, for instance, why in Islam the care for the poor is legislated as “their right” against the wealth of the well-to-do, since the wealth of the latter is God’s, and God’s compassion is first and foremost bestowed on the poor, the orphans, and the wretched of the earth.) If the physical world in its entirety is derivative, then it cannot have any real form of original possession, including possession of a law or a moral code. It is God therefore who is the sole Legislator, and it is with Him and Him alone that sovereignty and sovereign will lies.”
― الدولة المستحيلة: الإسلام والسياسة ومأزق الحداثة الأخلاقي
― الدولة المستحيلة: الإسلام والسياسة ومأزق الحداثة الأخلاقي
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