It was some time in 2009. I spent the night praying in what is now the girls’ room. At some point during my recitation, reality shifted, so that the Qur’an coming from my mouth became like a kind of tunnel, so that I was praying with (or within) Muhammed. Not a concept, but the man, [...]
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The First Time I Prayed with Muhammed
Posted in Prophetology on July 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Iqraa!
Posted in Cosmology, Prophetology on September 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Ramadan’s revelation begins with the Angelic command — iqraa! — to read, to recite. To read the signs correctly. To recite the signs of Allah. To live through their Prophetic alignment, their Prophetic unlocking. All signs indicate Divinity’s Love, but their misreading prevents us from comprehending this. Their correct reading allows us to recite their [...]
What is Sufism?
Posted in Cosmology, Prophetology, The path, tagged divine literacy, introduction, Sufism, sufism 101, what is sufism on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fatimah’s hair
Posted in Prophetology, Tailorite Tafsir, The path, tagged hair, Sufism on April 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The fracture of the ummah begins after the Prophecy withdraws, with the family drama over inheritance (Fatimah claimed she was given the land of Fadak and this was denied her) and succession to rule as King (Ali or Abu Bakr). Some sources tell us that when Abu Bakr and Umar came to the house of [...]
The possible impossible exception of interior escape
Posted in Cosmology, Prophetology, Tailorite Tafsir, tagged Creation, emanation, exterior, feminine, Gnosticism, interior, Islam, Kabbalah, Lacan, Logic, masculine, orbs, sakina, shekhina, Sufism on January 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
But what is the Feminine, exactly? Shekhina/Sakina? But what is that? A feminine tranquility sent down to us? But what is it, exactly? A transcendence? A means of transcending a masculine symbology? Or alternatively, the creative embodiment of that symbolic existence? I have restated my formulation repeatedly here, though after different fashions, lovingly enumerated. You [...]
Two cats
Posted in Love poems, Prophetology on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two cats met outside a mosque on the first day of Ramadan. Taraweh prayer was being heard inside. One was a house cat, the other an alley cat. Both were beautiful in their different ways. “Meow,” went the alley cat. “Can you back that up with some verses from the Noble Qur’an or sunnah of [...]
Mastery of the internal and external
Posted in Cosmology, Hadith commentaries, Prophetology, tagged apostasy, apostasy in Islam, Hegel, history, illuminated judgement, inner, Islam, Lacan, master-slave dialectic, outer, power, reality, Sufism, Wittgenstein on August 23, 2009 | 12 Comments »
The Tailor had just finished a rather flowery reading of a narration regarding the death penalty for apostates in Islam. One seeker said: “Okay. So there is a deeper, interior meaning to the narrations concerning death to apostates. An apostate is someone who attempts to leave the logical space of existence, who attempts a kind [...]
Faith and judgement
Posted in Prophetology, The path, tagged faith on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What is Faith exactly? I will defer to others in their discussion of its innateness or revelation and instead attempt to present my view of Faith’s ontological status in relation to our journey. First, I assert that all signs defer to Absolute Alterity — the Beloved Other. All signs — that is, everything in the [...]
A Tailor’s Doctrine: free copy courtesy of Fernmind Unilectic!
Posted in Cosmology, Hadith commentaries, Love poems, Prophetology, Tailorite Tafsir, Teaching, The path on July 11, 2011 | 5 Comments »
From introductory remarks by Immanuel Moon, friend and disciple of Musa Qamarbayev (author of A Tailor’s Doctrine). What can be said of Musa Qamarbayev? A gifted academic and enlightened mystic, a belated, tragic emissary of the Light, for the opening decade of the 21st century London, his teachings directly illuminated the faces of his friends [...]
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