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"You came down to these lands to act as a teacher, Like reviving rain covering their length and breadth; Or a radiant sun in its morning brilliance,
Leaving no room for night or stars or lamps.
You left it with tolerance and shining waymarks, Trailing its coat-tails in closeness to Heaven."

"If we are doomed, it may well be that our destruction by injustice will be the signal for the great revival of Islâm. These are the early hours; for light and darkness, good and evil, life and death, succeed each other always by Divine decree. Each has its usefulness towards Allah's purpose. But evil will not triumph ultimately, that is sure."

"Misfortune is a state more hopeful than prosperity, if men be staunch and persevere in righteous action"

Very glad this makes mention of atrocities such as the massacres against Armenians by the CUP rather than brush everything under the carpet. Really shows how tragic the fall of the Empire was.

"'It is as if,' said Basri Bey, 'they did not care a jot for human progress or reform, but only loved mere names like Parliament and Kiamil Pasha - names, you will observe, associated with the name of England."

Interesting to see the change of pace from constant praise of the CUP and England's "support" for Turkiye, to straight up criticism of European Imperialism. Definitely unexpected.

"I saw the falsehood of the Franks, which saved me from the madness of that fool who spoke to us just now; yet their ideas impressed my mind sufficiently to prevent me from becoming a whole-hearted Muslim ... And now that fool tonight has made it all seem madness. I thought that could share in the enthusiasm; but now I see that I must still look on and jest."

"The true jihad is not of those who say ""We are Muslims" against those who say ""We are Christians." The true jihâd is of good against evil, beginning with the conquest of a man's own lusts and ending in the battle which we are now waging for righteous conduct in the government of man."

"The feda'is were in truth in such a state of inward fervour that outward things were merely objects offered to their sight or hearing, which succeeded one another such objects do in dreams. And all, with the exception of a few like Hasan, were men possessing education and the power of thought."

No friend of yours will ever find a cure,
Despite his love and loss in paths obscure,
Until he’s with Muhammad ﷺ , all secure. ﷺ

مــا يشــتفي منكــم حبيــب أبــدا
ألحـــدْ فيمـــا ينبغـــي وأوَجـــدا
حتى أتيت المصطفى محمدا ﷺ

- Sayyidina Humayd Ibn Thawr Al Hilali رضي الله عنه

"Those who realise the rank of the itrah ( the Prophetic family) as guard- ian friends are dry-lipped people, who spread out their foreheads [in prostration on the earth], who are humble in their transient selves, separating themselves from the transgressors that prefer the world."

- Abu Nuaym رحمه الله تعالى

Life in its entirety is the month of fasting for the God-conscious. And the celebration of their fast-breaking is the day they meet their lord, as was said [by the poet],

"I have fasted from all
The delights of my life
And the day I meet you is
The day I break my fast."

وَ قَدْ صَمَتُ عَنْ لِذَاتِ دَهْرِي كُلُّهَا
وَ يَوْمَ لِقَاكُمْ ذَاكَ فِطْرُ صِيَامِي

"It is to these experts that the Mujtahid Imāms directed their advice concerning ijtihad, such as Imam al-Shafi'i's instruction that 'if you find a hadith that contradicts my verdict, then follow the hadith.' It is obvious that whatever some writers nowadays like to believe, such counsels were intended for the Imam's sophisticated pupils, and were never intended for use by the Islamically- uneducated masses."

"Men and women today have become too engrossed in themselves to notice the light showering down through the land and the sky. If only they could let go of their arrogance and their selfishness, they would see the light of unity shining in their very souls!"

Twas only otherness did mar in thee
This high estate; if its pretension were
Truly effaced from thee, thou shalt stand firm.

The creation's path to Allah's marifa (experiential knowledge of God) opened because of Muhammad ﷺ. If anyone claims to have gained the marifa of Allah without the nisba (connection) of Muhammad ﷺ, he will be lying.

His face was lighted with a smile like daybreak,
A sight which set my heart with joy a-tremble.

My heart glowed hot with fires of tender passion,
I snatched him up, and pressed him to my bosom.

Trembled his lips, I saw that words were forming.
What could Bird of Paradise be saying?

I bent my ear towards his mouth and listened With wonder, for his speech was plain to follow.

(From Aminah's perspective)

Before his arrival many springs had blossomed in this world but all were eventually overcome by autumn, how eternal spring to this universe that could not be surpassed by autumn. In the form of the Prophet ﷺ, Allah created a flower in the garden of prophethood that will never whither. With him now there is no need for any other flower to blossom in this garden and that is why Allah declared him Khaatim un Nabiyyeen.

'I don't want whatever I want.Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn't mean anything. What then?'

"Nature is not merely useful, and hence worth saving, it is sacred, a concert of God's signs,
inviolable and glorious."

"Pusillanimously submitting to the Outsider's social gaze"

Just got Mohammad Hijab flashbacks lol

Amid the Pharaonic world-arrogance of biocidal capitalism, the Ishmaelite underclass, despised by left and right alike, stigmatised as foreign, or phobic, or sexist, or terroristic, continues to love God, in other words, to be normally and traditionally human.

"Higher still than the gazing at nature and good architecture and the hearing of harmonies, the supreme object of love in creation is humanity; so that restraining the self from the egotistic and forbidden dimensions of human love is
the action of a mujahid"

'If such a lowly person can be so transformed by love, then what must be the potential of those whose natures are already virtuous, and who have completed the processes of self discipline?'

- Ibn Al Dabbagh

Whereas de Tracy and Marx saw society as a
regulated structure of essentially hedonistic and self-serving minds bound together for material benefit, revelation invites us to bow the head before pure Compassion, to see the world as luminously phanic, and in consequence to be moral agents and to serve others irrespective of personal gain.

Muslims are endlessly instructed to integrate into "European values". How can this be, however,when Europe(...) clings to its shadow side, populated by ghosts of its violent xenophobic past(...) Perhaps,instead of surrendering to demands for assimilation, Muslims on this troubled continent should take on the role of exorcists, seeking to cast out the continent's myriad unclean spirits.

"When the majesty of Muslim monetheism and the beauty of its narratives appear in worthy English, or French, or Danish verse and prose, the defences of anti-immigrant zealots and 'counter-jihad` protestors will be crucially enfeebled, for as Iris Murdoch observed, beauty has an 'unselfing' power."

Superficially Muslims look like outliers and
visitors, even though deeply they belong, because they belong to God. Equally superficially, the secular 'indigenous' seem to belong, because of a genetic inheritance, and because they hold the key to power and status and accept the regnant social beliefs; but in
their depths they are alienated....to be alienated from meaning is effectively to be alienated
from everything.