Syed Haider

Medical Doctor, Middle East and Islamic Studies, poetry, philosophy, infectious diseases, theatre, physics, theology, history, perfumery

[mohammad @greencargos]

i thought i had passion for medicine until i’ve seen people who actually have passion for medicine

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”

— Walt Whitman

[Eric T. Racher @Eric_T_Racher]

"By what characteristic may we know the divine forms?
By beauty."
-Ezra Pound

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

An absolute masterpiece piece of writing from Søren Kierkegaard

[Syed Haider @syedmrh]

@muntazireimam84 Bulawa is a devotional idiom and holds up well as one. Asked to carry evidentiary weight it collapses, and takes down with it the habit of asking that produced our fiqh and our kalam in the first place

[Haider Ali 🇵🇰🇵🇸 @muntazireimam84]

"Maula (a) bulatay hain tum kon hotay ho sawal karnay walay" being used as an actual ARGUMENT" shows how distant we have become from both rationality and our corpus

[anomali @Anomali210830]

Enough of everything…
I am asking you to touch me.

[Syed Haider @syedmrh]

Whoever decided that a bibliography goes at the end understood nothing about how anyone reads a book.

[Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ @abhistoria]

“And the Moon is dimmed.” وخسف القمر

The solar eclipse anticipated eagerly today would have aroused medieval Muslims too. 1/

[Syed Haider @syedmrh]

“You are not blind, sirs. You are facing away.”
— Trays

[Syed Haider @syedmrh]

Death is punctual; grief is not.

[Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ @abhistoria]

Early manuscript of Abu l-ʿAmaythal al-Aʿrābī’s كتاب المأثور في اللغة copied 40 years after his death. Remarkable!

[Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson]

“Three days heat, after five days rain.” A poem by Gary Snyder.

[anomali @Anomali210830]

I want to go on being boring 🥬

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

Robert Glück

[anomali @Anomali210830]

How far away each thing is from every other thing

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There's no miracle people.

[APS journals @apsjournals]

An ARPES-inspired crystal property predictor based on reciprocal space matches or beats widely used convolutional neural networks at predicting crystal properties while requiring only a fraction of the computational cost.

Read more in PRX Intelligence: https://t.co/2dFFn5QBx0

[Dr David Vernon @DrDavidVernon]

Japanese medieval marvels: Chōmei’s life as a hermit and Kenkō’s hundreds of delirious anecdotes (on everything from sake — ‘life’s medicine’ — to the strange pleasure of visiting temples at night). Can’t recommend enough.