The Basics of Ahadith
Many years ago when redacted name told me he had spent hours pouring over Ahadith at a library in the United Kingdom, a Gordian knot quickly unraveled and I developed my theory base for Islamic research by focusing on three small words: "Sign, Signal, and Code."
Unable to prove - but the journalist believed that Al Qaeda was communicating within her ranks with the use of Ahadith as a basic cryptograph.
This random thought regarding Islamic cryptography was later confirmed in conversational manner by a Mufti who patiently mentored me and taught me about the terrain of the mind. Ayat - means sign. So each individual ayat is a sign without any particular measurable linguistic voltage until the "Code Book" is unlocked by the "Key" which is Ahadith (the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad). And the Qur'an is unlocked only by that particular "key". At this point, the voltage can be measured with the signal which goes out. The Qur'an does not consist of analogies. But their are plenty of clues and bread crumbs scattered along the obscure pathways.
I have engaged the necessary voltage-laden conversations with leading geopolitical Islamists over the years and it is a bit analogous to the book, "The Glass Bead Game". (I have enjoyed Herman Hesse but did find his novel "Gertrude" a bit too depressing for my taste.)
Regardless, I have been seated with my small bowl of glass beads for years, and offering them up in conversations involving terror organizations, their leaders, chats about Shi'a v Sunni, Hamas, Africa, women's issues, beheading of opponents, crucifixions, and even female genital mutilation (or circumcision). The latter, was the most recent conversation over a plate of Halal chicken and rice. The conversation was deeply personal and I remember being deeply saddened.
The next post will walk the readership through a few basic tools for a beginning understanding of a very difficult glass bead game.
Tammy
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