Notes: From ‘The Mysteries of Selflessness’, by Muhammed Iqbal, translation and notes by Professor A.J. Arberry .pp32-33. John Murray (publishers), London 1953.
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Nationalism and patriotism are tools that tyrants, racists and even democrats need to be able to invoke when it sits their political ends..it helps keep a system in place…
Prayer & Work Bismillah
These few words might find a welcome in the minds of some Believers.
Our lesson of oil & vinegar has been brought to us at great expense. More than most of us can bear, then walk the moderate course.
But we can remember our goals.If we are to destroy the West for aggression, that is one course, if we are to convert the West through persuasion & or arms that is another.
Few if any people in the West believe that we want to convert them to anything that is better than what they have.
Even fewer of us in the West believe that we can.
That leaves but one course for each side, war until one or the other capitulates. The issue is, capitulates to what.
We say la illaha illah, let us mean what we say. With millions of us hungry, at war with each other, neglecting prayer,selling drugs & women we cannot sell our belief to the West, they already have plenty of that. Allah is Lord of the two Easts & the two Wests, not us.
The spirit has departed from the flesh,
Only the seven disjointed limbs remain
Nationalism and patriotism are tools that tyrants, racists and even democrats need to be able to invoke when it sits their political ends..it helps keep a system in place…
Prayer & Work
Bismillah
These few words might find a welcome in the minds of some Believers.
Our lesson of oil & vinegar has been brought to us at great expense. More than most of us can bear, then walk the moderate course.
But we can remember our goals.If we are to destroy the West for aggression, that is one course, if we are to convert the West through persuasion & or arms that is another.
Few if any people in the West believe that we want to convert them to anything that is better than what they have.
Even fewer of us in the West believe that we can.
That leaves but one course for each side, war until one or the other capitulates. The issue is, capitulates to what.
We say la illaha illah, let us mean what we say. With millions of us hungry, at war with each other, neglecting prayer,selling drugs & women we cannot sell our belief to the West, they already have plenty of that. Allah is Lord of the two Easts & the two Wests, not us.