Pitiful Are Those Who Do Not Seek...

As Tolstoy said to Bulgakov: "Pitiful are those who do not seek, or who think that they have found."

This is the 'aqida of the Majnuniyya and of Ibn Al-Dihliz--the "foundling," the liminal denizen of the interstices, of the cracks in the edifice, of the unmitigated in-between. This life is all about the yearning; it is a pilgrimage that pauses at certain shrines, but only ends with death.