What explains mankind’s rush to extinction and to destruction of the biosphere if not hypnotic trance? Allah, exalted is He, says in Surat al-A’raf about the magicians of Pharaoh:Â
“And when they threw,Â
they cast a spell on the people’s eyes
and caused them to feel great fear of them.
They produced an extremely powerful magic.” (Surat al-A’raf: 115)
They “magicked their eyes†literally.Â
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Abdassamad Clarke is from Ulster and was formally educated at Edinburgh University in Mathematics and Physics. He accepted Islam at the hands of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi in 1973, and, at his suggestion, studied Arabic and tajwid and other Islamic sciences in Cairo for a period. In the 80s he was secretary to the imam of the Dublin Mosque, and in the early 90s one of the imams khatib of the Norwich Mosque, and again from 2002-2016.
He has translated, edited and typeset a number of classical texts. He currently resides with his wife in Denmark and occasionally teaches there.
14 May, 2023 0:03
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