Be the beggar at Allah’s door, he told me gently. He loves humility. It’s in the mendicant’s bowl that the secrets of Self are revealed.
Usman T Malik, The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn [Amazon, Publisher, Local Library]
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The Lofty Master Arabi says, wrote Gramps, that the meaning of the lexical root J-N-N in Arabic is ‘concealed.’ Jinn isn’t just another created being ontologically placed between man and angel; it is the entirety of the hidden world.
Usman T Malik, The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn [Amazon, Publisher, Local Library]
He constructed a brass trunk and etched binding symbols on its lid
Usman T Malik, The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn [Amazon, Publisher]
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman T Malik is a grim fairy tale fantasy with time and reality twisting short story that is full of excellent middle east magical realism centering around human and jinn interaction. I definitely recommend this.
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Originally posted on my personal blog at The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
To escape, the Spiritual Entity manifests an Image it adopts for him, like a veil. It pretends the Image is moving in a certain direction so the Eye will follow it. At which point the Spiritual Entity escapes its confinement and disappears. Whoever knows this and wishes to maintain perception of the Spiritual, must not let his Eye follow this illusion. This is one of the Divine Secrets.
The Meccan Revelations by Muhiyuddin Ibn Arabi
Quoted in Usman T Malik, The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
“Where does he live?” “What does he eat?” And, “If he’s invisible, how does one know he’s real?”
Usman T Malik, The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
Not a clichéd horned jinn, you understand, but a daunting, invisible entity that defied the laws of physics: it could slip in and out of time, could swap its senses, hear out of its nostrils, smell with its eyes. It could even fly like the tales of yore said.
Usman T Malik, The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
