picture in my mind

If you can quote Yeats or Shakespeare, and then quote Ibn-Taimiyah or Imam Nawawi, then ohmygod, you have me. I used to say, any guy who knows sword-fighting would have won over half my heart (and there is still a validity to this, because swords are just oh-so-cool); but I have this new, more all-encompassing criterion, and just -- I will fall for this, no questions asked.

ShaykhHamzaIgnoranceAndExtremism from ilmisfree on Vimeo.

Come let us mock at the great
That had such burdens on the mind
And toiled so hard and late
To leave some monument behind,
Nor thought of the levelling wind.

Come let us mock at the wise;
With all those calendars whereon
They fixed old aching eyes,
They never saw how seasons run,
And now but gape at the sun.

Come let us mock at the good
That fancied goodness might be gay,
And sick of solitude
Might proclaim a holiday:
Wind shrieked - and where are they?

Mock mockers after that
That would not lift a hand maybe
To help good, wise or great
To bar that foul storm out, for we
Traffic in mockery.

~ W.B. Yeats


Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

~ William Shakespeare Sonnet 116