Every muslims should have this motto to live by: Bring Al-Muwatta into action and we will be champion. Today, the only way is to go back to the earliest source of Islam, which is the 'Amal of the people of Medina. Forget about hadith collections, Sunnah is all we need.
In essence, the person living here is a hybrid of these four: they have the inventive mind of Daedalus, the adventurous, culturally respectful soul of Ibn Battuta, the handcrafted principles of William Morris, and the cinematic, eco-futurist imagination of Hayao Miyazaki.
I asked Gemini if my mind was a room, how would it look like? Here is the result, a sanctuary of a visionary mind.
There are five unique objects anchor the soul of this room:
1) The Intricate Javanese Carved Ceiling: High above, the ceiling is a masterpiece of dark wood,
5) The Smart-Glass Solar Windows: Flooding the room with a dramatic, cinematic glow is a massive wall of smart-glass windows. Melding solarpunk innovation with nature, they perfectly filter the golden hour sunlight, turning the indoor greenery into a vibrant, living ecosystem.
@xpeacessea This is a circulating coin minted by authorities for daily commerce. Instead of getting robbed by inflation every year, I bring more groceries to the house. 😊
The greatest anti-colonial Muslim warriors were Sufis. Sufism is not a pacifist tradition, but the Sufis followed the Islamic code of chivalry (futuwwa/jawanmardi), and did not kill civilians. It is important to note that
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“The truly wretched is he who sees the form of his nafs, his ego, and does not strangle it until it dies.”
— Moroccan Sufi master Mawlay al-'Arabi ad-Darqawi, Rasa'il al-darqawiyya
“Strangling it means by invocation (dhikr).”
— Sufi master Sayyid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shāghūrī al-Ḥusaynī
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“The meaning of the Name [Allāh] is retained even if the letters are successively removed: removing the alif leaves lillāh, 'to God'; removing the first lām leaves lahū, 'to Him'; and removing all but the final hā' still leaves Hū, 'He'.”
— Egyptian Sufi master Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh al-Iskandarī
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al-Qasd al-Mujarrad fi Ma rifat al-Ism al-Mufrad (The Pure Intention: On Knowledge of the Unique Name)
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