O you believers, stand firmly for justice, as witness for God, even if it means testifying against yourselves, or your parents , or your kin, and whether it is against rich or poor. for God prevails on all. Follow not the lusts of your hearts, lest you swerve, and if you distort justice, or decline to do justice, verily God knows what you do.
Q:4:135
O humankind, your Lord is one and your ancestors are one. You are from Adam and Adam was from dust. Behold, neither the Arab has superiority to the non-Arab, nor the red to the black nor the black to the red except by virtue of piety.
----A Prophetic saying.
The question of loyalty: to who or what? There is something fanatical, puritanical in the desire to ignore boundaries; equally, there is something liberating in the 'refusal of system,' definitions.
All truth is on the boundaries (Tillich)
Dihliz: politically speaking: to belong to a community of rebels. At the radical centre, a place between past and future, one that doesn't easily take sides, that doesn't always 'resist' power but that can, instead, sidestep it, refusing to identify oneself in its shadow, declining its questions. An amateur, a flâneur, a different type of individualism.
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