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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only #beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible...
To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be... a means of holding onto the real.
—@GilbertLiz
“4 traits lift a person to the highest ranks, even if their works and knowledge are little:
(1) Forbearance (hilm)
(2) Humility (tawadu`)
(3) Generosity (sakha’)
(4) Good character (husn al-khuluq)–and this is the perfection of #faith.”
—Imam Junaid
[al-Ghazali, Ihya’]
"The punishment fits the sin—even when we are wrongly accused.
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Let he who is without sin complain about injustice." https://t.co/Ix2OWEMicy
#Art by @AgostinoArrivab
He'll often deny faces that way with a flood of light or wash of gold, even leaving a gaping black hole. The artist spoke of this in an interview having to do with a kind of reverence for the mystery/deity.
“the kind of aphoristic insight that the general public has come to expect from philosophers” https://t.co/W4rOkl5nit
“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.” —William Blake
#FridayFeeling