Spinoza at Rijnsburg

 

Give me a vessel of wine...

                Give me a vessel of wine 

                so that we may sail happily across this sea 

                toward the shore we can’t yet see.

                Our existence is a riddle, Hafez.

 

                Trying to solve it is just fairytale and illusion.

Autumn in Kazdaglari

                                                             Enchantment.

Srinagar

 

Allama Muhammad Iqbal

 

Through his poetry and prose, "Iqbal undermines the incarcerating effect which the limiting and homogenising [sic] term 'Muslim' had, and continues to have, when used by those in the West. In Western usage, the term is generally rooted in suppositions about the static nature of the consciousness of any person identified as 'Muslim.'"  Javed Majeed, Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics, and Postcolonialism, London: Routledge (2009), 23.

Questioning the Shepherd of Being

 

 

                                                Heidegger, morality, and politics.