Islamic Philosophy & Literature @iqrabismi - Tumblr Blog

One day, while Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq was praying, he entered such a state that he fell down unconscious. When he recovered, he was asked about it. He said: "I continued to repeat the verse over my heart until I heard it from the One who spoke it; and my body could not withstand the witnessing of His power."

(Ibn ʿAjība's Tafsīr)

Al-Shafiʿi (d. 820), as quoted by Mohammed Fadel

Cats these days…

— Rumi

#Rumi #sufism #mysticism

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hoodoo sunset; bryce canyon national park, utah

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Heidegger on falling (Verfallensgeneigtheit)

(In most cases,) God provides. A profound lesson.

Classical Arab insults are next level.

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Marxists talking about truth in “Marxism, Existentialism, and Phenomenology”

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“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”

— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin (via 5139321966)

iqrabismi

"Life is important." There are days, though, when life feels less so—as if it were a chaotic clay pot, spinning on the wheel, de-centered. A friend once told me that it's in times of existential numbness that one should pray. Prayer, like the hands of an expert potter, forces life back into harmony, back into meaning.

#life #philosophy #prayer #pottery