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William Blake & Ezra Pound were the great men of their era NOT Lord Byron & Benito Mussolini who represent a corruption from their economic ideal


the most important person of an era must be a poet... other great persons in history being

John Milton & Edmund Spenser
Vergil & Dante

>>19477315
>The Qur’ans narratives are seldom about Muhammad
This is true, but I would say that the narratives in the Qur’an are given only as an argument for his own messengership and prophethood. The Qur’an isn’t just giving narratives to make it appear like the Bible (it doesn’t actually reference much from it) but to strengthen Muhammad’s own claim that he was a prophet like the ones before him, giving a similar message and informing men of the signs of God through miracles and parables, and guiding them with the light given to them by the LORD. This is why he says somewhere in Al An’am, “This is the argument we gave to Ibrahim, we raise whom we please. Indeed, your Lord is wise, knowing.” Allah informs the reader indirectly of his name and attribute “Ar-Rafi” which is “The raiser”. This is a sign of Allah, for he has now raised another Bedouin to the stature of prophethood. “These are the ones we gave the Scripture, Judgement, and prophethood. And if there are those denies this among these (disbelievers), then indeed we have entrusted this (faith) to a people who will never deny it.”

>>19021795
The incarnation is wrong because the subject-object dichotomy of phenomenal consciousness is exactly that which we need to rise above. The genesis of man was also the genesis of the symbolique (which is why Allah taught Adam the names of all things, alayhis salam). The symbolic can only symbolize the aspect of God in extended forms and not the direct internal essence of God. Wittgenstein said language was internal and thus cannot be fully understood by outsiders. The same is true of God. Islam destroys all symbols because it says that the universe is singularly symbolic of God’s aspect, which thereby de-symbolizes the world because its concepts collapse into a totality that has its definition in God’s aspect. Islam is submission to this aspect in hopes that one may return to the essence of God and receive the Vision of His Reality in Heaven.

Who would be your guide in Dante’s Inferno? Mine would be Henry James.