Sunday, March 16, 2014

PECULIAR CONSERVATIVE (MOONSHADOW HOUSE LAST NIGHT)





The peculiar conservative nature of Arabic, which makes it liable to change, gives it a special claim to become the throne of the last word of God.  There is another peculiarity of this language, the suggestive and meaningful nature of its words.  Arabic words to a Sufi strike themselves as eloquent.  They do convey what, in other languages, need pages to explain.




Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, Islamic Sufism, New York, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1971.

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