If there is a One True Allah who was before all Time, is
now, and will be even after the end of Time, with Time here being defined as
the lifespan of the current Universe…
…that Allah is beyond personhood, beyond being, even beyond
effability.
…that Allah animates
without claiming possession; redeems without requiring gratitude; sustains without
exercising authority.
…that Allah permeates
the Universe, energizing all that is in it and shaping the flow of its
manifestation throughout spacetime.
…that Allah is a paradox, perpetual yet ever-changing, transcendent yet immanent,
metacosmic yet omnipresent, eternal yet omnitemporal.
…that Allah has no name, and has no need of a name, since being
the one and One True Allah, there is no other Allah from which to distinguish
godself.
…that Allah is the Source of all that is, the Force
energizing the manifestation of all that is, and the Way guiding the
manifestation. From our perspective, these are different things, but in
reality they are One.
…that Allah is One, neither male nor female, and emanates equally
light and dark, good and evil, order and chaos, yin and yang, life and death,
integrity and entropy, creation and destruction, everything and nothing.
…that Allah does
not reward good deeds or punish ill, nor does it exact karmic retribution for
imagined imperfection.
…that Allah does
not demand our submission, obedience, penitence, worship, adoration, praise,
prayer, confession, thanksgiving, supplication, benediction, love, respect, or
even belief.
…that Allah is one that no
one can against any other being on Earth—or in the Universe—because that neither takes sides nor has sides.
…that Allah favors
none; there is no Anointed One, no Chosen People, no Exceptional Nation, no
Elect Species; not on Terra, not in the Milky Way, not in the entire Universe.
...that Allah does
not need us nor want anything from us; individual beings are too infinitesimal
and ephemeral within the Universe for it to take much note. That Allah
just is, and does not need us nor anything from us.
Love each other being as yourself, both on Earth and across the vast expanse of extraterrestrial space,
and do not do to any other being that which you would not wish them to do to
you; for that is the only thing that matters.
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