Mecca: he will come. Jerusalem: he was here. Medina: he is here.

Traditional architecture: materials praising their Maker. Modern architecture: materials praising Man. Postmodern architecture: materials mocking man. John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831, Oil on canvas, 151.8 x 189.9 cm (National Gallery, London)

Beware the zeal of the uncertain. No-one is zealous for the Pythagoras theorem. Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad