By Isla Rosser-Owen The Blue Plaques Scheme was started in 1867 by the Royal Society of Arts, upon…
ven the atheist brain knows ours for a time of hubris: we madly ravage and violate nature and walk upon the moon; every other species cringes from us as ecosystems die; our gamed financial system is increasingly parasitical upon the poor. From our human perspective Covid-19 is an infection which disorders our world; but seen from the world’s perspective humanity itself has, over the past age, become a still more deadly disease: like a fungus or a hookworm we suck the blood of the host, multiplying insanely until the ecosystem itself, the planet which we vampirize, starts to sicken and die. Bani Adam, released from the natural restraints urged by religion, has itself become a disease, in its planning and its wisdom no more intelligent than a microbe. We have become a Qarun-virus.
Being a translation of Qanun al-Tawba, from Abu al-Mawahib al-Tunisi al-Shadhili’s Qawanin hikm al-Ishraq ila kafat al-Sufiyya bi-jami’ al-afaq
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