A sister from Norway asked the Tailor: “You have stated here that you would continue with your Tailorite Sufic reading of the Sahih Bukhari even if it turned out that those hadeeth were fabricated by someone 50 years ago. And you’d insist on your uncompromisingly “spiritual/metaphoric” peace and love based understanding of Torah and Qur’an [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Reading and Niyat
Posted in Cosmology, Tailorite Tafsir, The path, tagged muhammed, niyat, Qu'ran, reading, sufi, Sufism on March 24, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Burning down the house
Posted in Tailorite Tafsir, Teaching, tagged burning, burning houses, cruelty, fajr, hadith, isha, Islam, Sufism on March 19, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Question: I attended your recent hutba where you laid down the principles of Tailorite “True islam”, and your dogma of the Prophet Muhammed’s immaculate pacifism: he shed no physical blood, yielded no physical punishment, etc. No doubt you have a number of esoteric techniques to extract a Tailorite tafsir of peace and love from even [...]
This week’s hutba: True Islam
Posted in Cosmology, Teaching, The path, tagged Sufism on March 19, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A recent hutba given by the Rev. Immanuel G. Moon, the friendly faced sheikh of Fuadfordshire. True Islam is the religion of Life, not of Death. True Islam saves, it does not punish. True Islam would never punish a man or woman with physical death. True Islam does not bring punishment. No punishment, no death [...]
Reality machines and the Asadian rap
Posted in Cosmology, tagged asad, asecularity, foucault, lsd, Sufism on March 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »
It’s the standard Asadian rap. Admittedly, it has potential and and encourages the kind of progress we are pushing for. But you know, this approach has its origin in Foucault’s LSD trip, just as the secular identity/religious identity distinction has its origin in the Kantian European Enlightenment. That is to say, the implicit binary opposition [...]
Rejection
Posted in Love poems on March 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last night she thought she had them once more in her thrall, those grey bearded authorities pouring over her pages, she supposed she kept their attention with her brilliant display. And their superb adab: it deceived her sister too, to the extent that she had faith, her success with the people was inevitable. And when [...]
IMASE statement on recent events in the East End
Posted in The path on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The International Muslim Association of Scientists and Engineers (IMASE) has released a statement in relation to the death threats launched against Sheikh Hasan. Please distribute the statement around to anyone who you think it might be relevant to. And if you are in any position to help with the actions that are being calling for [...]
Of oranges and peels
Posted in Cosmology, Teaching on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The consensus amongst the city is that there is an orange, and it is the best kind of fruit. But they use the terms “orange” and “orange peel” interchangeably, because they haven’t learnt to eat and so take bites directly from the skin, never penetrating to the actual fruit and so the peel is all [...]
Malihe
Posted in Love poems on March 7, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’ve just heard that our friend Malihe is in hospital, after suffering a stroke. She is known to some who read here as Melissa/Oriontriquetra. Please offer du’a for her speedy recovery: because du’a is for delivery into loving gnosis, and loving gnosis is Malihe’s character.
March hutba: evolution and union
Posted in Cosmology, The path on March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A recently hutba given by the Rev. Immanuel G. Moon, your friendly parish sheikh, on recent problems in the East End of the City. Darwinian Evolution and its incompatibility with Islam is again the news of the day, with the blacklisting of a well known evolutionist sheikh from his masjid (and yet another death threat [...]
March Hutba: from temporary revolution to eternal circles
Posted in Tailorite Tafsir on March 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A recently hutba given by the Rev. Immanuel G. Moon, your friendly parish sheikh, on the Egyptian situation. Something has been conspicuously absent during the tumult we witnessed unfolding in the middle east. Where were the voices of the ulama? Or to phrase the question more precisely: why was the ulama unable to contribute anything [...]
