Fighting against madness is mad, and produces ever more madness. The only radical act in a mad age is to be sane and to be with those who are sane. But what is sanity and how do we know it? It is that on which you were created. However, the collusion of your parents and ever greater numbers of people in the prevailing insanity convinced you that their madness is sanity and your sanity is madness, and so you joined the mad. Read The Emperor’s New Clothes if you doubt me. Nevertheless, you possess one little fragment of original sanity, by which you are able to recognise it when and wherever you meet it, and that fragment is your heart. The best thing you can do with your heart is recognise those who are more sane than you, and then be with them.
Sanity
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Abdassamad Clarke is from Ulster and was formally educated at Edinburgh University in Mathematics and Physics. He accepted Islam at the hands of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi in 1973, and, at his suggestion, studied Arabic and tajwid and other Islamic sciences in Cairo for a period. In the 80s he was secretary to the imam of the Dublin Mosque, and in the early 90s one of the imams khatib of the Norwich Mosque, and again from 2002-2016. He has translated, edited and typeset a number of classical texts. He currently resides with his wife in Denmark and occasionally teaches there. 14 May, 2023 0:03 View more posts
On The Way To The Masjid
Abdassamad!
Are you insane or drunk?
Enjoy Jummat, then.
Salaam
If insane, probably not enough.
By The Stars! Haaaaaah!
La howla wa la quwata illah billah