9/ The Qur’an tells of signs—clear to those who reflect— but warns of a moment truth becomes undeniable, and choice dissolves. Faith must be chosen while the veil still stands. Beyond that point, even repentance may be illusion. What burns then is not faith—but consequence.
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Copy of tweet here: Consequence. The prophets, of course, universally foretell "a Day that every soul shall find out what it has done" arriving as a planetary reckoning in which a sunburst of revelation, the crystal of the total event, the payback hit, settles terms once and for all, as promised. Whatever the era, those courageous souls who push the fragile barque of their mortality out into an encounter with the outer/inner extreme where death, transience and eternity issue from God, return with a common refrain. There is no escaping consequence. Here, Rumi. Alt-text for Rumi poetry available at original tweet.
@UssamaMakdisi @nytimes The great sage, Abraham Joshua Heschel, routs the derangement: "Impartiality with regard to history is a pretense." As a correlative, David Whyte: "Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are."
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