- david manicom, school at chartres
"basit, what was the name of the book we studied?" zachariah snapped his fingers, trying to remember. i stared at him, blank. fiqh ul manhaji, it turned out, but we shook our heads later at what we have become, return'ed, in this brave new world of plastic and granite. he has an excuse, he has been floating in some empyrean realm for some time, but the things i gather together as defence are hollow even to myself.
and so today i started reworking notes from the stack of coiled paper i set aside after august 10th. first up, the commentary to the "radiant pearls". and so i will post a few random points.
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His knowledge is necessarily executed in preternity, and does not have any other relation than this, neither a preternal receptivity or contingent execution, - as this would imply His attribution with ignorance, whereas He relates to a thing before its existence, that it will be, as well as after its existence, that it has been - and this having been or future existence is that [only] of the object, not of [His] knowledge.
- hashiyah bajuri, quoted on page 84 of the khareedah, beiruti edition. my translate.
according to ibn 'arabi, who (as usual) takes the next step, the quiddities of all things are immutable in His knowledge, and manifest themselves extrinsically as they come into being. which has some parallel to platonism.
the classical logicians recognized four forms of opposition.
- a thing and its negation (a book vs. no book)
- two attributes relating to an ability or its lack (the attribute of sight, relating to the ability to see, vs. the attribute of blindness)
- two incompatible meanings which if united lead to rational contradiction, but which do not necessarily exclude the other (black vs. white)
- two incompatible meanings which if united lead to rational contradiction, and which do exclude the other (fatherhood vs. childhood*)
"where wilayah ends nubuwwah begins"
"the end of philosophy is the beginning of theology"
"the entire cosmos lies between the kaf and the nun of kun".
"laysa fi'l-imkani abda’u mimma kan."
* unless you are william wordsworth.
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and the solar year winds itself to a close.
