RT @nick_routledge: @BaytAlFann @CambCentMosque @NBWLA @DIALOG The word 'paradise' derives from the ancient Iranian language of Zoroastrianism, Avestan. 'Pairidaēza' meant "a wall enclosing a garden or orchard." To this day, Paradise Gardeners recognize everything alive has its genetic code written in the same alphabet from the same source.
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Copy of tweet thread here: The miracle of Pentecost isn’t that divided people learn to speak one lingua franca—the dream of every Empire. It’s that we learn to speak & understand languages that aren’t our own—the joy & struggle of Beloved Community. George Steiner: “If, as blind poets can, we pass our fingers along the living edge of words – Spanish words, Russian words, Aramaic words, the syllables of a singer in Cathay – we shall feel in them the subtle beat of a great current pulsing from a common center...” [The dailymotion links in the tweets to follow refer to the two part BBC TV series, 'Paradise Gardens' by celebrated English horticulturalist and broadcaster, Monty Don, describing his travels across the Islamic world and beyond in search of paradise gardens, considering their place in the Quran.
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Copy of tweet thread here: Image calligraphy: The colors of the grove and the voices of the birds will restore immortality, at the time when we shall come into the garden, thou and I. - Rumi
@GabrielSaidR The first image, frontspiece to Raimon Panikkar's 'The Intrareligious Dialogue'; where the second portrays the legendary 1219 encounter between St. Francis and the leader of the Muslim army, Sultan Malek al-Kamil, at the height of the 5th Crusade. The medievals, a stepping stone.
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It happened after some days, perhaps as the fruit of an intense and sustained meditation, that a vision appeared to this ardently devoted Man. In this vision it was manifested that by means of a few sages versed in the variety of religions that exist throughout the world it could be possible to reach a certain peaceful concord. And it is through this concord that a lasting peace in religion may be attained and established by convenient and truthful means. —Nicolai de Cusa De Pace seu Concordantia Fidei 1,1 *
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Miniature of St. Francis and the leader of the Muslim army, Sultan Malek al-Kamil, embracing.