allahu.cipher

Indeed, your lord is allah, who created the heavens and the earths in six days and then sat upon the throne. Chapter of the Heights, verse 54.

I sought out that lord upon the throne on high, but found the throne was empty. There were thousands of millions of luminous beings encircling it and chanting the praises of this absent god, this cipher, nonplussed by the absurdity of it all. To them, allah is not a personage or a presence. Allah is the gathering itself, the convergence of cipher and luminous beings. Cipher is the impossible void from which all things emerge and in which they all dissolve. It is the ocean of infinite possibilities of which this entire cosmos is but one. The anatomy of the gathering, then, appears like so:

allah = {cipher, luminous beings},

where the luminous beings are all the objects in the cosmos, and the objects within the objects, each object a horizon of cipher and the point of its a/theophany, each itself an empty throne around which gather still more luminous beings.