The dunes did their job.
-New York Times, March 15, 2024
Fifteen thousand tons of sand moved in order to protect beachfront homes from the rising tide, all washed away by a single storm. No doubt a Geomancer, a Rammāl (the occupational noun of the root R-M-L, Sand), would be alarmed by what this means. But on the Darb al-Arba’īn, the Way of the Forty, we had no use for Geomancy, Darb al-Raml, the Way of the Sand. On our Darb there was far too much Raml for the other Darb to count.