RT @nick_routledge: @AimeTim The scandal of Reality is that it is morally structured, and everyone, believers or not, eventually encounters that grain as judgment. Optionality, as such, applies not to eternal features of consciousness, but to temporary conditions defining the age that still permits evasion.
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4/ #Quran: And among humankind are those who say they believe in God and the Last Day but they do not believe. @UniteThePoor 5/ #Quran They try to deceive God and those who believe, but they do not deceive anyone except themselves, although they do not know it. 6/ #Quran: And when they are told not to make trouble on earth, they say that they are only doing good. Is it not that they are in fact the troublemakers without even knowing it? @UniteThePoor 7/ #Quran And you are not the guide of the blind out of their error; you cannot make anyone hear but those who believe in Our signs and have submitted. And on the day the hour arrives the guilty will swear they only lingered a while; that is how deluded they were. @UniteThePoor 8/ #Quran And those to whom was given knowledge and faith will say, “In fact you lingered, according to the book of God, until the day of resurrection. And this is the day of resurrection, although you have not perceived.” 9/ #Quran If you could only see when abusers are stood before their Lord, throwing back allegations at one another. Those who had been despised of will say to the arrogant, “If not for you, we would have been believers!” @UniteThePoor 10/ #Quran The arrogant will say to the despised, “Did we hold you back from the guidance after it came to you? No, you were the guilty ones.” 11/ And the despised will say to the arrogant, “No, it was a plot of the night & the day: you commanded us to deny God, and set up idols as equals to God.” And we never sent a warner to a community but its affluent members say, “We reject what you were sent with.”@UniteThePoor 12/ #Quran Assembly of spirits and humanity! Did there not come to you messengers from among you relating My signs and warning you of the meeting of this day of yours? @UniteThePoor 13/ #Quran If only disbelievers knew of the time when they cannot ward off the fire from their faces or from their backs and they will not be helped! No, it will come upon them unawares, and confound them, so they cannot avert it, and no respite will they have. @UniteThePoor 14/ #Quran And on the day the hour arrives,on that day they will be divided: those who had faith and did good works will be gladdened in a garden… @UniteThePoor 15/ #Quran while those who disbelieved and repudiated Our signs and the final meeting will be brought to punishment. @UniteThePoor 16/ #Quran 2:136 “Say: We believe in God and that which was revealed unto us, and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ismail, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received and that which the Prophets received from their Lord...” end/ #Quran. “...We make no distinctions between any of them, and unto Him we surrender.”@UniteThePoor
Open original document@iyad_elbaghdadi end\ What approaches bears both terror and mercy, the end of one world and the unveiling of what follows. Not the victory of one complex over another, but their common overthrow under revelation itself. Parousia, Qiyāmah, Geulah: the false Abrahamic felled and reborn, in concert.
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10/ What makes perspective revelatory then, is ontological consequence, not interpretive richness. When ultimacy itself shifts, the disclosure carries agency—demanding response, reassigning responsibility. In an Abrahamic register, apocalypse is moral, historical, incarnational. Ultimately, the arc ripens into a messianic claim—judgment, mercy, liberation—that gathers up and surpasses Abrahamic registers, reaching beyond “religion” altogether. Benjamin remains our patron saint in that regard, even as the image is now planetary, the text not yet in print. 3/ Adorno rightly defined Benjamin as a thinker ‘standing apart from all tendencies’. Scholem held him as an almost canonical source, noting to Arendt, “just how far [his work] distances itself from every traditional conception of philosophy.” Why was he utterly ‘unclassifiable’? “In the idea of the messianic kingdom one finds the greatest image of history, on which infinitely profound relationships between religion and ethics are built. Walter said once: The messianic kingdom is always there. This insight contains the greatest truth – but only in a sphere which, to my knowledge, no one since the prophets has attained to.” - G. Scholem, Über Metaphysik, Logik und einige nicht dazu gehörende Gehiete phänomenologischer Besinnung. Mir gewidmet. 5, Oktober 1917–30. Dezember 1917, unpublished (61 pp.), p. 27 4/ Perhaps Benjamin put it best, describing his use of a kind of alchemical, theological-atheological fusion or emergent reconciliation catalyzed in the ‘sudden paradoxical change of one form of [religious or political] observance into the other (regardless of which direction)’. 5/ ..."the better to grasp the complex and subtle relationship between redemption and revolution in his philosophy of history" (Löwy), "mutually activating – or, rather, reactivating – one another, and together leading the charge against alleged historical necessity." (Ivernel)
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