A missive in solidarity with Friends of Design everywhere. The Matronita Minor says: “Burn it/relearn it/the sign’s inside and outside”. A Hathoric viruspsalm for depiction’s demise. The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill. But remember: silence abounds within speech!
Archive for January, 2011
The Friends’ assessment of the Egyptian situation
Posted in Love poems, tagged anger, demiurge, depiction's demise, egypt, pharoah, suficore, Sufism, time to ride on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Intellectual Sufism?
Posted in Teaching on January 23, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Question: Your analyses are often muddied beyond repair with intellectual references to psychoanalysts and philosophers like Lacan, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and the like. But Lacan, Deleuze, Guattari and Foucault were not Sufis. This so called “Tailor’s Doctrine” of pseudo-Sufism is mere speculative application of the relativist values of a temporary, but currently fashionable, academic paradigm. [...]
Evolution
Posted in Love poems, tagged drum, evolution, God, Islam, Sufism on January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
You wanted to tell them about the way God goes through dust despised, then whetted, cells channeled, and up, tunneling Life out of root, sap, sedimented in bark, in sense. You wanted to tell those stony faces of your vision of God’s hand, extended out of Knowledge into nature, and how you felt it, inspecting [...]
Short cuts and grades
Posted in Teaching, tagged Islam, islamic sufism, learning, premature, shariah, Sufism, teaching, true sufism on January 22, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Question: I have been warned of frauds who purport to be Sufis but, in fact, present confusion at best and, at worst, lead us away from the Deen of Islam by purporting to present “short cuts” to the teaching. This be done by superficially mixing together ideas from different mystical traditions (for example, Islamic, Hindu, [...]
Takfear TV: Women’s Hour
Posted in Cosmology on January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Praise Desmond, Takfear TV, the world’s only Literalist Tailorite channel is now on Sky, preset 72. Sheikh Yufist hosts “Women’s hour”, where he answers all pertinent questions facing the modern Literalist Tailorusma siste trying to keep faith in a world of sin.
A Christmas Nasheed: Saba Mahmood, Progressive Islam, Postcolonial Subjectivities and Hajar
Posted in Cosmology, Love poems, Prophetology, Tailorite Tafsir, The path, tagged 4, 7, christmas, four aeons, hajar, postcolonial, postcolonial theory, saba mahmood, seven heavens, subjectivity, Sufism on January 4, 2011 | 7 Comments »
It was the jummah before Christmas, and Sheikh Yufist (the Imam of the Dangerousnutter-on-Sea masjid) was delivering the guest hutba at Visible College. The Professor was in attendance, breaking a several month long abstinence. An abstinence begun in the somewhat acrimonious aftermath of his previous Islamist fiasco, but which had gradually calmed into a blissful [...]
