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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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THE MIRACULOUS LETTER
There is a letter in the Qur’anA centuries-old secret,Passed down from mouth to earAnd day to century, and againRemaining a secret now, foreverI won’t reveal, can’t revealWhich one it is, don’t knowThe arcane mix of letters or whatConstellation of moods and starsUnlocked that hidden gateThe sages thought it would openA window to the real worldBeyond…
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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 COMPLETE EXEGESIS
Al-Khattab undertook an exegetical work called Al-Tafsir al-Shamil fi Maarafat al-Kamil, or The Complete Exegesis Toward an Understanding of the Divine Perfection. It began simply enough, aiming for a comprehensive synthesis of the preceding centuries’ scholarship on Qur’anic interpretation. Al-Khattab was well into the third volume and the exegeses on the Chapter of the Cave,…
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THE BIFURCATION OF THE WORLD
Aflaton.mahomet witnessed the remnant of the living world embedded as hidden spores beneath the horizon of immanent things. Each object a cave hira protecting the divine absence, the field of infinite possibility .. it appeared to him as a paradise in the heavens beyond the castle towers of the sultan, or as a fecund ocean…
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