When your Lord said to the angels.

‘I am putting a khalif on the earth,’

they said, ‘Why put on it one who will cause
corruption on it - and shed blood
when we glorify You with praise
and proclaim Your purity?’
He said, ‘I know what you do not know.’

Al-Quran

This is an age and civilization that characteristically has The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's
developed a special science, vocabulary, and literature mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them...To
for every separate medical, psychological, and tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them,
sociological phenomenon, but has no anthropology of to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and
mankind... therefore all one’s human experiences and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it
capacities may turn into insoluble problems and back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to
astounding marvels, sometimes into fascinating, deny the existence of objective reality and all the while
enchanting, and encouraging ones, sometimes into to take account of the reality which one denies - all
terrifying, threatening, and sinister ones. The human this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word
creature thus dissected, no longer whole and healthy doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For
but split up into a thousand specialities and arbitrarily by using the word one admits that one is tampering
selected snippets, can like a slide prepared for the with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases
microscope dissolve into a world of pictures. this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie
always one leap ahead of the truth.
Hermann Hesse - Dream Gift
George Orwell - 1984

By that breath appeared the two worlds and by the same

breath the spirit of Adam was manifested.
Intellect and discrimination were given to Adam so that
he might recognize the source of all things.
When he saw himself as a separate individual he reflected
upon his identity, asking, “What am I?”
He made a journey from separation to gatheredness and
from there returned again to the world.

KHALIF - Yusuf Abdalwadud Adams - Autumn 2009

He recognised the world as an illusory matter of relativity
just as the number one becomes multiplied but remains one.
The world of creation and its management came into
being in one breath and at that very moment of its
appearance disappeared again...
All things are returning to their source - both the hidden
and the manifest become one thing.
Allah, the most Sublime, who creates and destroys the
two worlds with one breath, is permanent, existing
beyond endless time.
In this respect the world of creation and its management
are one thing - what is gathered in oneness becomes
many in separation and many are gathered in oneness.

Mahmud Shabistari - The Secret Garden