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NO PILLARS
Exegesis of the Qur’anic verse, {He created the heavens without pillars}, Chapter of Luqman, verse 10. The He of this verse is allah, or the gathering, and the creation established by this gathering is the assembly, which is not a fixed entity, but rather a continuous process of confluence and contention among the multitudes of…
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THE GODFEARING SHALL BE AMIDST GARDENS AND FOUNTAINS
The exegesis of the Qur’anic verse: {But the godfearing shall be amidst gardens and fountains}, Surat al-Hijr. Most people think that Paradise is a place distinct from this mundane one, somewhere up in the heavens beyond the reach of satellite eyes and probing rockets. Or maybe it’s on a distant planet sphere, or maybe even…
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THE GATHERING
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…
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THE DIVERSIONARY HUMAN
The diversionary human is a composite of many gods and values coming together in history — hand gods, soil gods, cloud gods, tool gods, rain gods, drought gods, insect gods, plant gods, animal gene gods, brain gods. It is the convergence of these that caused the rupture at the outset of history. The diversionary human…
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HALLAJ & THE EMPTY THRONE
Al-Hallaj scaled Mount Qaf, the highest of mountains, even until his head peeked through the clouds, and then he gained a caught the tail of a passing comet that carried him into the heavens. Then he leapt onto the lowest of the stars, and climbed his way up through the seven heavens, until he arrived…
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THE SIFRIYYA ORDER
The fragment was revealed in the heresiography of Sheikh Malak Ibn Abi Sahib, itself little more than a fragment whose original was lost in a fire at the Baghdad National Library in October 2004. The lines are attributed to a mysterious and possibly fictional figure known as al-Samara’i: And thus the one is transmuted to…