The meaning of Jihad inourpresenttime particularly refers to striving to liberate Muslim lands from the grip of the disbelievers who usurped them and imposed on them their own laws in lieu of the Divine Law.
As we orbited the sun, we exposed the back side of the collector to stardust, interstellar grains, that are actually coming in to our solar system at the presenttime.
The dream of perfection deferred allows him to tell a story about our national past-time that manages, as well, to be about our historical present in other words, a story about fallibility.