the reading list
- duino elegies, sonnets to orpheus
- in the shade of the quran – it helps to read the meanings while memorizing. (and look away)
- shahadatul haq – although i have a few reservations against this book. but okay, bacalah. homework.
- towards understanding islam – thoroughly this time. kut.
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read some parts of Nursi’s stuff on the miracle that is quran, and some parts of it pertaining to modern science (not that it hasn’t bee expounded by other people), but such allusions he give is sort of interesting. especially in the arranging and choice of words used from one ayah to another. of course, you hear about the arabs playing particular importance to poets and all that. they should realize the magnificence of each verse, much better than us who receive filtered out translations. heh.
but you are learning. you are memorizing. you are understanding. so that’s a start.
i suppose you need to seep into everything slowly and absorb things one by one until it hits your heart. subduing your self into humility before anything else is paramount. and to claim you read this or that before you were even this or that is boastful. you understood nothing to begin with. so you pick up, these little things, one by one. filling out one book after another. casting out several books in the process.
kbye.
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