Are you really living if you don't live in THE LINE???

still this is extra love - desiring to be his wife in paradise and all

I think this is like Anglicans being like our Protestant martyrs had it really bad and putting up loads of monuments (meanwhile Thomas More and all of Ireland)

No names but in grad school I was giving an earful by a certain instructor at Yale who told me that I have no right to warn students about their poor performance bc everyone gets an A in his class.

Medinan suras of the Qur'an like 24 (al-Nur) often involve legal questions. Q 24:6ff explains what a man who accuses his wife of fornication is to do. Much of Islamic exegesis is meant to provide a context for such passages. Al-Wahidi accordingly reports a story of a man who says

Learned a new word today from Bin Baz saying there's no need to be all pedantic like the zahiris (folks who zero in on the literal meaning of things) - in Arabic: tahadhlaqa. Fortunately for me I've never ever been a mutahadhliq. 👀

Bow and arrows? C'mon guys - it's gonna take more than that to kill the pope.

Mutawakkil did much more mihna-ing than Ma'mun fwiw

lots of people liking this 😢

Here’s a photo I took years ago of a sign w/the pious Islamic saying: “The principle (ra’s) of wisdom is fear of God” (attributed to Muhammad or Ibn Mas‘ud). It follows closely Proverbs 9:10: “The beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord.” A version of this also appears in the