@sentantiq Yes, across the board, our prophets declare the dishonest beyond salvation's reach. Likewise, the parable of the wheat and tares portrays this divide as an ontic as much as moral phenomenon, and our ineluctable, collective reconciliation with righteousness a fresh start of sorts.
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Copy of tweet here: 'Severance Day', a classic prophetological motif and echoed, as such, in the characteristically hierophanic guidance of ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib – cousin and son-in-law of Mohammed (PBUH), and the first and father of all other imams. "I am the instigator of the second Flood," he said. Ultimately, whatever our name for it, the 'Hour of Reckoning' or 'Day of the Messiah' isn't delineated by peculiarly Abrahamic or even singularly religious limits. Man-made history is only one of history’s dimensions. 'Planetary Parousia' or 'Qiyamat al-Qiyamat' takes it all in.
@lukeburgis 2/ History following an apocalyptic logic goes both ways, of course. Yes, humanity's vocation to betterment; but simultaneously conjoined with the equally mysterious advance of a dark corruption. Until, that is, 'apocalypsis', our Day, Hour or Moment of vision and decision.
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Copy of tweet thread here: As Adorno observed in MINIMA MORALIA, the catastrophic present demands visions of the future “that display and estrange the world, reveal it to be, with its rifts and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will appear one day in the messianic light.” This seems impressively meaningless. Care to offer a translation? History tends to the fuller and fuller revelation of the mystery of evil. History, therefore, follows an apocalyptic logic. Not apocalyptic in the sense in which the word is used colloquially to refer to catastrophes but in the word’s original sense of revelation or unveiling.