No Strength, No Will

To understand the modern world you have to consider that you are living in a lunatic asylum. What governs the affairs of today are varying levels of psychosis. The madness of the insane is increased by confirmation of their insanity. Some of the cleverest and articulate of people are clinically mad and are master manipulators, to the extent that they have even redefined sanity/insanity.

To understand this there must be sanity, and this is very difficult to maintain within an institution for the insane. Part of the difficulty is the acceptance of all that is presented at face value, when, of course, nothing is as it seems. We all know this; we know politicians are liars and slaves to the wealthy; we know the police are not there to protect us; we know that the financial system is totally corrupt and partial; yet we accept this as the way things are and do nothing about it. Continue reading “No Strength, No Will”

The Brothers of the Rasulullah

Abu Dharr al-Ghifari, radiallahu anhu, said that the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallim wa ala alihi, said, “Do you know what saddens me and what I am thinking and longing for?”

We said, “Oh Messenger of Allah inform us of that.”

He said, “I will tell you insha’Allah.” Then he sighed deeply and continued, “It is my yearning for my brothers who will come after me.”

I said, “Oh Messenger of Allah are we not your brothers?” Continue reading “The Brothers of the Rasulullah”

A Different Time

The ocean of filth

Now surrounding, engulfing earth’s shore

Lies clinging, smothering like a belt of oil

Yet now I discern

A sweet, melodious note,

As the first birds of morn

And the gentle breath of new life

Heralding another day.

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Dearest do not fret

For what seems lost, broken

To our eyes, before us and behind,

Is fecund humus hiding its issue

Of good news bursting through warning;

Certainty, peace, balm for the heart

And we the gardeners, expectant of green

That will colour the dark mud of winter’s death

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