Full Moon Part Deux
I wanted to go back to this after having a nother thought about this quote:

"Ignorance is the night of mind. A night without a moon"


(And I love this picture :-) )
Maybe that’s why people go crazy the night of a full moon. There’s too much intelligence to bear, and ignorance cannot protect them.
The intelligent enjoy a particular insanity that every common man must experience. It opens their eyes to a new world of reality, dreams, and everything in between. They are exposed to so much of it, that ignorance has no role in pacifying them into the undisturbed, unaware state that they once upon a time were immersed in.

Using their mind might just switch on a light bulb, maybe ignite into a wild conflagration, but nevertheless, the mind is enlightened.

From Hamza Yusuf's lecture, "Changing the Perceptions of Reality":

Dont do daily prayers like a bird pecking its head up and down
Prayer is an egg hatched out, the total helplessness inside.


Strive to be the Mumineen . The most sincere of them all, the purest.

God, I have no hope
I am torn to shreds
You are my first, my last, my only refuge.
Wa banna al lamul jama inhu illa ilahi.

And they recognized that there was no refuge from Allah except to Allah swt.