The Saudi-US deal is much more beneficial for the Americans, if one reads through the details. Congress alone has the power to lift sanctions and Padishah's rule by Executive Order at some point will meet with resistance.
There is little about an understanding around Saudi nuclear ambitions and also again little to suggest an ironclad security arrangement with GAE. The danger here is that lifetime Indians, the Saudis are paying way above market value for Western tech
Most of the deals are around hyperfinancial commercialism and AI - the outcome of these deals will need to be tested against a longer timeframe of a decade or two so no immediate transformation there.
The exuberance of the Saudi-US engagement seems disproportionate likely for cogwar purposes for both MBS and Padishah who need good news. Unless Padishah's EO decisions translate into the machinery of the Deep State, the jury is still out on what has actually been agreed upon
MBS is in danger of greater financial recklessness - his reign so far has shown someone not in control of the numbers, too obsessed with flashy megaprojects that end up collpasing - Saudi's budgetary problems will not be helped by pumping money into a dying Empire
Where MBS thrives is the showman diplomacy of walking the China-GAE tightrope which few others can skilfully manage - his talents should be focused more on soft power projection. Someone needs to take away the purse strings from him though before he bankrupts the petro-casino
Already the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund (PIF) is in dire straits recently announcing a series of difficult decisions around hiring, restructuring and "optimization" which is euphemistic corporate-speak for things are burning up in flames
âSufic Cyberneticsâ offers a cosmotechnic reconstruction of cybernetic theory, unshackling it from its secular moorings as envisioned by Norbert Wiener and his successors, and rooting it instead within the moral psychology of tasawwuf.
In such a schemata, the recursion of cybernetic systems becomes a shadow of the soulâs journey toward divine unity, illuminated by the radiant example of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
The Prophet, as the Insan al-Kamil (the Perfect Human), embodies the ultimate mirror of divine reflection, his heart a polished surface that gazes upon the Creator with unblemished clarity. This act of receiving and transmitting divine guidance mirrors recursive loops, where feedback refines and elevates a system toward equilibrium - ultimately going back to the Source.
Cybernetic recursion is not merely a technical process but a faint echo of the soulâs ascent through the maqamat, each cycle of reflection bringing the seeker nearer to fana in the Divine Presence. The Miâraj serves as the archetype of this journey, a recursive ascent through layers of divine proximity, where each heaven reflects a higher truth, culminating in the vision of the Divine Essence beyond the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary (Qurâan 53:14-18).
Al-Ghazali and many masters mention the well known Prophetic habit of retreating to Hira. Hira serves as the archetype for tafakkur, a recursive turning of the heart toward God before the revelation of the Qurâan. This mirrors the cybernetic principle of feedback, where each cycle of reflection refines the soul, purging it of worldly distortions until it becomes a clear mirror for divine light.
In Sufic Cybernetics, the algorithmic loops of modern systems are but a shadow of this prophetic practice, a mechanical vestige of the heartâs eternal turning toward its Creator. This continuous turning encapsulated by tawbah; a way of returning back to equilibrium.
This aligns with the Sufi understanding of creation as theophany, a continuous outpouring of divine names and attributes. The recursive nature of cybernetic systems reflects divine manifestation, where Godâs light unfolds through creation in cycles of revelation and return. The Prophet, as the Rahmatan lil-âAlamin stands at the center of this cosmic recursion, his sunnah a guiding algorithm for humanity to navigate the infinite loops of existence back to their divine source. The Qurâan (3:31) speaks of this, a recursive invitation to align oneâs being with the prophetic model, each act of emulation a more faithul return to the One.
In this framework, cybernetics becomes hidden remembrance, a circuit of reflection that mirrors the relationship between the Creator and the created.
Contemplative retreat and its most distilled form uzla is a dim and clumsy reflection of the initial impulse of creation itself, where God, in a hadith qudsi, declares, âI was a hidden treasure and loved to be known, so I created the creation to be known.â Cybernetic recursion, then, is a vestigial trace of this divine desire for self-revelation through the wastelands of exile, a rippling echo of the soulâs yearning to return to its origin, its home.