#deliberateness

عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم لِلأَشَجِّ أَشَجِّ عَبْدِ الْقَيْسِ ‏"‏ إِنَّ فِيكَ خَصْلَتَيْنِ يُحِبُّهُمَا اللَّهُ الْحِلْمُ وَالأَنَاةُ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ صحيح مسلم حديث ١٧

Ibn Abbas narrated that the Messenger of Allah said to Ashajj, of the tribe of 'Abdul-Qais: "You possess two qualities which are liked by Allah: insight and deliberateness." Sahih Muslim 17c In-book reference : Book 1, Hadith 25

أَمَّا الْأَشَجُّ فَاسْمُهُ الْمُنْذِرُ بْنُ عَائِذٍ بِالذَّالِ الْمُعْجَمَةِ الْعَصَرِيُّ بِفَتْحِ الْعَيْنِ وَالصَّادِ الْمُهْمَلَتَيْنِ هذا هو الصحيح المشهور الذى قاله بن عبد البر والاكثرون أو الكثيرون وقال ابن الكلبي اسمه المنذر بن الْحَارِثِ بْنُ زِيَادِ بْنِ عَصَرِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ وَقِيلَ اسْمُهُ الْمُنْذِرُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ وَقِيلَ الْمُنْذِرُ بن عبيد وقيل اسمه عائذ بن الْمُنْذِرِ وَقِيلَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَوْفٍ وَأَمَّا الحلم فهو العقل وأما الأناة فهي التثبت وَتَرْكُ الْعَجَلَةِ وَهِيَ مَقْصُورَةٌ وَسَبَبُ قَوْلِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ذَلِكَ لَهُ مَا جَاءَ فِي حَدِيثِ الْوَفْدِ أَنَّهُمْ لَمَّا وَصَلُوا الْمَدِينَةَ بَادَرُوا إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَأَقَامَ الْأَشَجُّ عِنْدَ رِحَالِهِمْ فَجَمَعَهَا وَعَقَلَ نَاقَتَهُ وَلَبِسَ أَحْسَنَ ثِيَابِهِ ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ إِلَى النبى صلى الله عليه وسلم فقربه النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَأَجْلَسَهُ إِلَى جَانِبِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُمُ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ تُبَايِعُونَ عَلَى أَنْفُسِكُمْ وَقَوْمِكُمْ فَقَالَ الْقَوْمُ نَعَمْ فَقَالَ الْأَشَجُّ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّكَ لَمْ تُزَاوِلِ الرَّجُلَ عَنْ شَيْءٍ أَشَدَّ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ دِينِهِ نُبَايِعُكَ عَلَى أَنْفُسِنَا وَنُرْسِلُ مَنْ يَدْعُوهُمْ فَمَنِ اتَّبَعَنَا كَانَ مِنَّا وَمَنْ أَبَى قَاتَلْنَاهُ قَالَ صَدَقْتَ إِنَّ فِيكَ خَصْلَتَيْنِ الْحَدِيثَ قَالَ الْقَاضِي عِيَاضٌ فَالْأَنَاةُ تَرَبُّصُهُ حَتَّى نَظَرَ فِي مَصَالِحِهِ وَلَمْ يَعْجَلْ وَالْحِلْمُ هَذَا الْقَوْلُ الَّذِي قَالَهُ الدَّالُّ عَلَى صِحَّةِ عَقْلِهِ وَجَوْدَةِ نَظَرِهِ لِلْعَوَاقِبِ قُلْتُ وَلَا يُخَالِفُ هَذَا مَا جَاءَ فِي مُسْنَدِ أَبِي يَعْلَى وَغَيْرِهِ أَنَّهُ لَمَّا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لِلْأَشَجِّ إِنَّ فِيكَ خَصْلَتَيْنِ الْحَدِيثَ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَانَا فِيَّ أَمْ حَدَثَا قَالَ بَلْ قَدِيمٌ قَالَ قُلْتُ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي جَبَلَنِي عَلَى خُلُقَيْنِ يُحِبُّهُمَا.. شرح النووي على مسلم

ثُمَّ أخبَرَ النَّبيُّ صلَّى اللهُ عليه وسلَّمَ أشَجَّ عبدِ القيسِ -واسمُه المُنذِرُ بنُ عائذٍ العَصَريِّ رَضيَ اللهُ عنه- أنَّ فيه خَصلتَينِ يُحِبُّهما اللهُ ورسولُه: هُما الحِلمُ، أيِ: العقلُ مع الصَّبرِ، والأناةُ: وهي الرِّفقُ والتَّثبُّتُ في الأمورِ، فأثْنى رَسولُ اللهِ صلَّى اللهُ عليه وسلَّمَ عليه بالحِلمِ والأناةِ، وأخبَرَ بحُبِّ اللهِ ورسولِه لهُما. وهذه الصِّفاتُ الخُلُقيَّةُ قد تَكونُ جِبلِّيَّةً فِطريَّةً، وقد تَكونُ مُكتسَبةً بالمِرانِ والمُمارَسةِ. الدرر السنية

I know it's particularly offensive towards Traflorkians, but keeping that in mind, the idea that one would be able to define their own dimensions subjectively to the situation (just as one is expected to do in any physics class with free-body diagrams) and the expectation that the idea projected need not be simply accurate, but also meaningful.

Deliberateness is what separates intent from afterthought.

Words themselves aren't power. Ideas are.

Magic is just intended ideas.

ROSE – The NOUN & VERB

“Roses are red, violets are blue, I wrote this article just for you!”

Roses are probably the most reckoned flowers in the world today. I hear if you want to get a white girl, give her a Rose and if you want to get a black lady, give her a Rolls (Royce). Bottom line is that Roses are relevant, beautiful and they have a huge following. I love the Rose (as a noun) because it is definitive for…

6. Including loving kindness practice in my daily meditation. Meditation was restless yesterday, as it sometimes is and will be. There is quite a release in feeling discomfort, discontent, and a basic desire for having a different now and just letting all those feelings be there with no judgement or need to do anything about them. They pass by, almost as if they never existed and then arise again only to pass by.  Feeling grateful.

“But at that moment he saw through the smudged window an old woman with white hair and wearing a brown dress carry a red bowl out of a beige house and set it in the green grass. Three white cats hurried over and stuck their heads into it, and the vivid complexity of the event erased everything else in his mind. There simply wasn’t enough time to figure out what these things meant, how they related to him. He felt trapped on the other side of the smudged window.”

I was entirely, completely enchanted by Rhodes’s last book, Driftless; I haven’t reread it -- I’m not a rereader -- but I really should, as it’s one of a handful of books I’ve been completely in love with. I was less so with its sequel (more or less; it’s its own story, but Jewelweed continues in the same place as Driftless, with many of the same characters, picking up after the previous novel closed -- much as Driftless followed Rhodes’s Rock Island Line and picked up that book’s main character as the central point for its stories), perhaps because of my expectations, perhaps because of the book. It’s difficult to tell. Still, Jewelweed eventually, slowly, pulled me in, largely through the deliberateness of Rhodes’s plainspoken style, his commitment to describing carefully all the surfaces of things, his refusal of anything ostentatious or tricksy. This often winds up sounding clumsy, like the above bit, seen through the eyes of a just-released prisoner overwhelmed by the outside world; but the clumsiness also serves the point, and the moment.