“The Lote Tree is not an actual tree on Earth, but a mystical Islamic metaphor concerning the uppermost boundary in knowledge a human being can possess concerning God. It comes from the Qu’ran chapter 53, An-Najm (The Star), verses 10-18 and alludes to Muhammad’s night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and then through Heaven. “The [...]
Archive for September 6th, 2007
Sidra/Sidrah.
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reminiscing …
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I don’t know why, but I find myself thinking of my college days.
The light blue uniform, the shoes, socks, the nose stud that would disappear at the sight of the maths tutor, or the discipline master, the huge assembly area where we would use the morning assembly to make fun of our discipline master’s hairless legs, and [...]
