absence of god – allahu.cipher

October 25, 2025

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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a/theism, a/theology, absence, absence of god, cosmology, god, Islam, mysticism, Philosophy, Qur’an, religion, Theology
August 26, 2025

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…

a/theology

a/theism, a/theology, absence, absence of god, Qur’an, Theology
July 24, 2025

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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a/theism, a/theology, absence, absence of god, mysticism, poetry
November 23, 2024

RESISTANCE

The tafsir of the Qur’anic verse, {Would you then, if you were given the command, work corruption upon the Earth and sever your bonds of kinship?}, Surat Muhammad, verse 22. The sky of the Gorgoni Assembly is filled with crystalline cloud gods that form sharp hatching patterns. They run up and down, and left and…

tafsir

absence of god, assembly, cosmos, exegesis, god, interpretation, Koran, metaphysics, narrative, ontology, Philosophy, Qur’an, story, tafsir
November 9, 2024

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…

tafsir

a/theism, a/theology, absence, absence of god, exegesis, god, paradise, Qur’an, salvation, tafsir, theism, Theology
November 3, 2024

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…

a/theology

a/theism, a/theology, absence, absence of god, god, Islam, Qur’an, Theology
October 28, 2024

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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