Note 1: Pharoah Indeed, Pharaoh exalted himself in the land and made its people into factions, oppressing a group among them, slaughtering their sons and keeping their females alive. Indeed, he was of the corrupters. (28:4) Pharoah is Samael, Iblis, the Satanic God of Fear, Confusion, Illusion, Law. But, like all of Creation, he is [...]
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Ramadan Reading: a Few Notes on the Twenty-First Juz
Posted in Tailorite Tafsir on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ramadan Reading: a Few Notes on the Twentieth Juz
Posted in Tailorite Tafsir on August 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Surah 27: T. S., Solomon and the Ant T. S. These are the verses of the Qur’an and a clear Book … (27:1) The “T” is jubliation, Issacian birth, the laugh of Sara, the Cross, the Body, Christ. It is the Smile. The “S” is creativity, the Bride, the Qur’an Read, perception. It is her [...]
Ramadan Reading: a Few Notes on the Nineteenth Juz
Posted in Tailorite Tafsir on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Note 1: The opening of Surah 26 These are the verses of the clear Book. (26:2) These are the fragmented, scattered signage of the womb/kitab/A-L-M of Clarity, encapsulating the Divine Light. The ayat necessarily obscure and obfuscate (either in play or in irony, always in Love), by virtue of their encapsulation of Light. The womb [...]
Ramadan Reading: a Few Notes on the Eighteenth Juz
Posted in Tailorite Tafsir on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Note 1: Believers Surah 23 concerns the believers. The believers (H-M-N) are a soul-phalanx, stretching back generations, through which runs a line into security of belief (the prayer house). Successful are the believers. The believers are submissive in prayer (23:1-2) They have succeeded. Success runs through them: it is the line into security, it is [...]
Ramadan Reading: a Few Notes on the Seventeenth Juz
Posted in Tailorite Tafsir on August 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Note: Disbelievers, da’wah and destruction: the black trope of the teacher and crowd Surah 21 (precursor to 22, which plays further upon related themes) opens with the Prophecy standing in relation to a people of disbelief. Their account has approached for the people, while they are in heedlessness turning away. No mention comes to them [...]
Ramadan Reading: a Few More Notes on the Sixteenth Juz
Posted in Tailorite Tafsir on August 19, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Note 1: John (Juz 16 continued) Now we enter the darkest hour of our Reading: the point where we can see nothing any more, where the Qur’an has ceased to be a joy, where the Truth that we saw within her pages has departed from us. And we are left with document of history, social [...]
Ramadan Reading: Lanqan il Jorn
Posted in Love poems, Tailorite Tafsir, Teaching on August 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
During May, when the days are long, I admire the song of the birds from far away and when I have gone away from there I remember a love far away. I go scowling, with my head down so much that songs and hawthorn flowers aren’t better, to me, than the frozen Winter. Never shall [...]
Ramadan Reading: a Few Notes on the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Juzes
Posted in Tailorite Tafsir on August 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Again running low on time. First some misplaced notes on Surah 16, “the Bee” (continuum from Fifteenth Juz). Note 1: What fear of Love means The command of Allah is coming, so be not impatient for it. Exalted is He and high above what they associate with Him. He sends down the angels, with the [...]
Ways to read Qur’an
Posted in Tailorite Tafsir on August 17, 2011 | 8 Comments »
These are the axioms I have taken when reading Qur’an: God is Love: Infinite Mercy. The Qur’an is Words of that Love. The “you” addressed by the Qur’an is you, the reading/reciting subject. Axiom 1 is fundamental to me, personally. I don’t recognize any Love except Love. I don’t recognize a God of Anger, Fear [...]
Ramadan Reading: a Few Notes on the Fifteenth Juz
Posted in Tailorite Tafsir on August 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Note 1: The Isra Exalted is He who journeyed His slave by night from al-Masjid al-Haram (the Sacred Temple) to al-Masjid al-Aqsa (the Farthest Temple), whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Seeing. (17:1) The Isra from Mecca to Jerusalem is Surah’s opening theme, and, [...]
