The year is 3010AD. Verandah Vanguard theological training centre, London. Principal Farinelly, standing in front of some pretty damn sleepy first years, sighs and brings out his battered teacher’s edition of A Tailor’s Doctrine. He begins to read, in his dull Australian nerdtone. … There is nothing more to war than interpretation: illocutionary acts of (incorporeal) violence, sign [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Scene from a Tailorite Training Centre in the year 3010
Posted in Tailorite Tafsir, tagged science-fiction, Sufism, tailorite on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mother’s day present
Posted in Cosmology, tagged inner, Islam, mother's day, outer, potential, signs, Sufism on March 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Tailor’s Third Ummatic Engagement
Posted in Love poems, tagged gilbert and sullivan, Islam, patience, subr, Sufism on March 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
(Life as operetta. A member of Gilbert’s College? By the banks of the Thames, do I receive that Northern Crowning, finally, after these 5 years of leasehold? In it for the admiration? Surely not arbitrary admiration! But yes, I freely admit in soliloquy, I write it all down for the ladies — my Doctrine to [...]
The Tailor and the Sheikh
Posted in Love poems, tagged difference, Islam, Sufism on March 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
And you asked me about my vision, and said through adab that you wished this for yourself. And you asked me about my drunkedness, and say in adab that you wished yourself a drunkard like me. I am astonished, my beloved brother, that you should desire vision and wine While you hold the keys to [...]
The Tailor and the Muslim
Posted in Cosmology, tagged apostasy, Islam, Sufism on March 1, 2010 | 10 Comments »
“To locate the spark supreme: we are simultaneously guided by its exhalted Light, and so move further south and further east and, through its gift, our line of flight, our becoming is, for a moment at least, a becoming-in-resonance with the form of our Forgiving, Providing Beloved, whose Love is ultimately the meaning of the [...]
How to stop worrying and love the lesser jihad
Posted in Cosmology, Hadith commentaries, Tailorite Tafsir, tagged banu qurayza, jihad, Sufism on March 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Narrated Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri: When the tribe of Bani Quraiza was ready to accept Sad’s judgment, Allah’s Apostle sent for Sad who was near to him. Sad came, riding a donkey and when he came near, Allah’s Apostle said (to the Ansar), “Stand up for your leader.” Then Sad came and sat beside Allah’s Apostle [...]
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