“The way is empty, yet no use will drain it. Deep, it is like the ancestor of the myriad creatures.” (Tao, 11) The way is Maternal Void, in that she is always an absence, yet infinitely generative. The womb is an orb whose inner vacancy creates other orbs, like energy signals around the edge of [...]
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The Way: Part 4
Posted in The path, tagged tao on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Way: Part 3
Posted in The path, tagged God, Love, tao, taoism on February 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Not to honour men of worth will keep the people from contention; not to value goods which are hard to come by will keep them from theft; not to display what is desirable will keep them from being unsettled of mind. All sign regimes, all systems of valuation (of reading and of action) lead to [...]
Tounge tied
Posted in The path on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
When making a pitch to an important group (boss, client, student body, a pretty girl etc) it is possible to get tongue tied: it happens to everyone. The reason, ultimately, is that you are overwhelmed by something you might not understand (you put it down to your boss, your client, the student body, the pretty [...]
Revolution and protest
Posted in The path, tagged protest, revolution on December 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In my religion, we never support revolution or ferment protest. We work within the system, infiltrating it by satisfying its laws and constraints, by living its lives and speaking its language. It’s not a case of changing the system from within — change isn’t the point. We bring liberation to the system by being its [...]
God ordaining crucifixion
Posted in Tailorite Tafsir, The path on September 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What kind of God ordains crucifixion for treason? The punishment for those who wage war against Allah and His Prophet and make mischief in the land, is to kill them, crucify them, or cut off a hand and foot on opposite sides. (5:33) This is not to be read as an ordinary legal punishment: instead, [...]
Amy Winehouse and the Norway Tragedy: Being More Like God
Posted in The path on July 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Two tragedies are read out this Sunday, across the headlines of papers and the status update feeds of social media: the death of a pop singer and the terrorist attack in Norway. It is interesting to compare my immediate reaction to both these events. 1. Norway. In the case of Norway massacre, I was first [...]
We make our pilgrimage to/through/by means of a structure known as the Cube. It comprises of the following aspects. Six sides: A dialectic of Martyrdom (submission/slavery, oblivion/fana) and Victory (messaging, hearing, rebooting/baqa). These correspond to the down and up of the Cube, respectively. A bidirectional (copredicative) movement out of Love (unity) into Logic (shariah/law/differentiation) and [...]
Western dependencies
Posted in Teaching, The path on June 12, 2011 | 5 Comments »
(Postcolonial Theoretic) Question: Why are we still dependent on theories developed in the West, as in by White Europeans? We’ve already provided the answer to that question, in both long and short forms. In the former relation, as a bonus, we revealed who Hajar actually is (and why she’s intrinsic to all postcolonial escape, so [...]
Punk and the Muhammedean Influence
Posted in The path, tagged Sufism, punk, taqwacore on May 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Muhammedean becoming is the becoming of becomings: the meta-function of all functionality. All functions of input to output are Muhammedean, small or large, from the smallest f(x) = x+1 to the obtuse partial differential equation, from the function of childbirth to the functions of parliament, protest and revolution, from functions of car and textile manufacture [...]
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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