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ALLAHU CIPHER SONG
To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavensAnd all the beings there are upon the earthLike my arms and each hair and finger on themAnd my two eyes and all the worlds they seeAll they’ve seen wherever my feet have beenEach and all belong to me and I to all of themEvery blessed and profane…
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SHAHADAH
The fire crackled and glowered, penned in by the ring of stones. I gazed into it, descended into its depths until I could hear it as a roar that blocked out the world or the illusion of a world. The flames leapt forth from their bounds and charged outward, shrieking like banshees into every opening…
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MOUNT TOMORR
His is a fearsome face, sharp and disfigured, rocks assembled to conceal the absence of god, while we terrified monkeys flee to His stony skirt, clutching at its substantiality, even as an all-consuming hidden hole opens just on the other side. He loomed here long before I became aware, I just a blind protrusion of…
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ALPHABET OF THE GOD TO COME
I landed on this strange planetwhere every creature is branded,an eternal letter etched on its skin.No one knows their brand’s origin,Nor do they know what it means,each the sound from a languagethat doesn’t yet exist, but might one day.The letters will merge on an unknown dawn,And together form a poem of many lines.The words will…
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ASCENT TO OLD SOLOMON
I took a walk up the mountain yesterday To visit Old Solomon in his black cube cabin Hidden under leaves and canopies of sky I was tested on my way by jumping rocks And divebombing horseflies and sunbeam spears Tossed from their source eight minutes ago To catch my vessel right where it would be…
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EPIPHANY OF THE MAP
It found me unexpectedOne day standing in qiyamUnfurled there before my eyesI spy the eternal sketchThe map I’ve been searching forThey said it marked out treasuresCherished by all human heartsAll the sages testifiedFind that map, the world is yoursI sailed all the seven seasTraversed every continentOpened so many volumesAnd raided so many gravesTo find that…
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MUHANNAD & THE DARK CAVE
Muhannad cowered in the darkness of the cave, pulling the woolen blanket closer to his face. It was the only sensory impression available for him to hold onto, other than the damp, cold, amorphous nothingness that pushed inward through his nostrils and in through the holes of his ears, and soaking into the pores in…
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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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MAGICAL ARKESTRA COSMOS
The cosmos is the tense silence at the beginning of a Sun Ra concert, like a membrane of darkness, the forces of mayhem building on just the other side of it. A baritone note pulses on the hammond organ, and the knock-knock-knock of the dionysian drum visitors who want to come in and spread a…
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