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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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HEILIG HOUSE
Heilig House: An Artistic (and Religious?) Revelationby Burt Sommers, for the Atlanta Daily PicayuneJanuary 10, 2011 You wouldn’t expect to find a place of pilgrimage in a 1960s era Atlanta suburb like this one, much less in an unassuming tan stucco craftsman-style home on this tony side street. But the Heilig House is turning heads…
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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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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 ATOMIC EYE
Every atom is a microscopic eyeball floating in space, and peering into every other eyeball. There’s a cosmos in each one, with its own suns and solar systems, planets and asteroids, and millions of gas clouds and magnetic fields and zigzagging forces of every kind. On the teenytiny planets floating in each ball, there are…
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PARADISE
There is adistant land remotebeyond imagination righthere before meplacid and joyfulshrouded only bythe thinnest ofveils three moleculesacross but ittakes about athousand years topierce through eachone of them
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HEAVENS & EARTHS
The assembly is the configuration of the multitudes of object.angels in the heavens and the earths. There are 100 object.angels in the air heaven, 200 object.angels in the cloud heaven, 500 object.angels in the star heaven, 700 object.angels in the moon heaven, and 1,000 object.angels in the sun heaven. There are 100 object.angels in the…
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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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