Nafi‘

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Nafi‘

@Tsunalyst

Mostly intelligible rambles.

NY Katılım Mayıs 2022

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Nafi‘@Tsunalyst·22 Eki

Article’s out! Memoirs and travelogues as genres should be revived, so as my own contribution, I wanted to write on my recent travels and my discovery of «home»—here’s the outcome. LMK what y’all think. traversingtradition.com/2025/10/22/str…

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@floatingwordist Would take that over an American commute…

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infj 🇵🇸@floatingwordist·1d

@Tsunalyst laughs in tokyo's hellish commute

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Part of the beauty of traveling to another country is that I don’t have to drive. I love driving across scenic routes, but for the most part cars are a cancer whose invention has set us back—there’s nothing civilized about them. Trains are a hallmark of true development.

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Nafi‘@Tsunalyst·1d

@TJcban Yeah it’s one of the reasons I love visiting there especially. A well-developed public transportation system is necessary in any decent city.

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TJ@TJcban·1d

@Tsunalyst One of the many beautiful development out of the British Isles.

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@rghdrizzle @BabikerAlSudani I mentioned some in the response. Here are more which trace histories and have relevant analyses.

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Luqmaan hakeem@rghdrizzle·3d

@Tsunalyst @BabikerAlSudani Got any reading recommendations related to this ?

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Babiker@BabikerAlSudani·4d

Are the masses ready for me to drop this banger tonight

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Nafi‘@Tsunalyst·3d

@Leto_alThanii It’s from here.

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Masser@Leto_alThanii·5d

@Tsunalyst Whose account is this one?

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Masser@Leto_alThanii·5 May

The desert is the superior setting for glimpses of the Divine. Everyone affirms this.

—@graveair

You only begin to grasp the difference between Judaism, Christianity and Islam when you’ve walked the Levant, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, Moses was born in a lavish land, Jesus was surrounded by greenery and snow, Mohammed literally doesn’t know what a tree is.

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Nafi‘@Tsunalyst·5d

@Covenant_watch I wonder how someone looks at Cairo and goes “the city needs more people.”

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Nafi‘@Tsunalyst·6d

@ciscaucasian Amin Ya Rabb and you. 🤲

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Ciscaucasian@ciscaucasian·6d

@Tsunalyst Never stop. May Allah SWT enrich you with more

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Another haul, mostly for old books on poetry and some history. There are so many stores containing works of the sort in London.

Nafi‘@Tsunalyst

New haul before the newer one.

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Nafi‘@Tsunalyst·6d

@ciscaucasian My cousin and I built shelves all around the study stretching up to the ceiling for accommodating these books and there’s only one small shelf that has some space (will fill up with 3-4 medium-sized hauls). Maybe I do need to stop Sieda.

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Ciscaucasian@ciscaucasian·6d

@Tsunalyst Where do you even fit these Nafi

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Nafi‘@Tsunalyst·6d

@jack71574535 @Covenant_watch These were all under the “Occult Sciences,” a part of which were alchemical works. These were all intertwined so you’d see connections between those and numerology and astrology and so on, each with its own purpose.

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Ibn Ray'leigh@jack71574535·6d

@Tsunalyst @Covenant_watch Im guessing this was all under the name of alchemical works ? I know at least in the more eastern islamic lands there's seems to have been some kind of buddhist interaction in the early periods.

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Nafi‘@Tsunalyst·6d

Yeah they’d vary depending on the location and the period. There are similarities in the way the Occult Sciences were conducted but they retained their cultural influences still. Arab Islamicate Occultism had many Greek influences, for example, whilst in al-Andalus you’d find Jewish influences in numerology due to the somewhat syncretic setting.

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Ibn Ray'leigh@jack71574535·6d

@Tsunalyst @Covenant_watch Im guessing there were also multiple competing frameworks ?

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Nafi‘@Tsunalyst·6d

There are assumptions that are intertwined with the larger frameworks of those positing these ideas. One can see the assumptions and the frameworks, but as for arriving at them from first principles or seeing how all this logically works, that’ll be a tough endeavor so you end up working with their assumptions anyway.

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Ibn Ray'leigh@jack71574535·6d

@Covenant_watch Intresting. What was the logic behind this then ? The jinn listening in on heavenly secrets is simple enough to understand. Are these other methods supposing some kind of intermediary alam-mithal type realm ?

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@IsmailKamdar Ibn Fadlan, al-Tunisi’s In Darfur, Muhammad Asad (of course), Dženita Karić’s Bosnian Hajj Literature (an analysis of Hajj travelogues).

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Ismail Kamdar@IsmailKamdar·6d

Does anyone know of any other good historical travel journals like Ibn Battuta or Evliya Çelebi?

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Nafi‘@Tsunalyst·6d

Harari, Peterson, Shapiro, and before them the New Atheists, apart from being frauds, are great examples in mimesis where they know “just enough” about their subjects and nothing of substance to pretend that they’re messiahs for the new age. It worked all too well.

matrixbot@thematrixb0t

World Economic Forum "agenda contributor", Yuval Noah Harari: Human rights are "just a fictional story".

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@syntakhs Will give it a «deeper» look bro. 🙏

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📜@syntakhs·8 May

@Tsunalyst The devil and his advocates is one hell of a deep dive for any reader No pun intended

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Nafi‘@Tsunalyst·8 May

New haul before the newer one.

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Nafi‘@Tsunalyst·8 May

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Nafi‘@Tsunalyst·8 May

Goethe’s words for a blessed Friday: “Everyone to whom you give yourself, you will come to love as yourself. Give your penny happily, don’t pile up a legacy of gold, make haste joyously to prefer the present to its memory.”

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@floatingwordist @TJcban @rghdrizzle @BabikerAlSudani @Leto_alThanii @Covenant_watch @ciscaucasian @jack71574535