Thanks, David, for another crisp issue, straight to the point. And it’s nice to see the Prophet Muhammad’s definitions of “hypocrite,” as related in the Hadith collections by Bukari and Muslim. I don’t know Classical Arabic, but a scholar of it once told me that the word for hypocrite derives from a kind of Arabian Desert weasel that lives in a burrow with two escape holes. It runs to one hole or the other, depending on the direction of the challenge. Survival trumps everything. There’s that word again. Michael Wolfe
Thanks, David, for another crisp issue, straight to the point. And it’s nice to see the Prophet Muhammad’s definitions of “hypocrite,” as related in the Hadith collections by Bukari and Muslim. I don’t know Classical Arabic, but a scholar of it once told me that the word for hypocrite derives from a kind of Arabian Desert weasel that lives in a burrow with two escape holes. It runs to one hole or the other, depending on the direction of the challenge. Survival trumps everything. There’s that word again. Michael Wolfe