The Light of the Imam
The Light of the Imam
Ulimately there is only Reality (Allah):
it is beyond creation and non-creation;
it is beyond life and death;
it is beyond the infinite and the finite;
it is beoynd knowledge and ignorance;
it is beyond pleasure and pain;
it is behond heaven and hell;
it is beyond nirvana and samsara
it is beyond the One and the many;
and yet the Real can be known.
From the very beginninglessness
the Real has shown its Light
and that Light manifested itself in the world of form.
From Imam Adam to Imam Karim Aga Khan IV
there has never been a time
when this world was without the Light.
The Imam’s Light reaches out
and sparks up the divine light within.
Light upon Light
and so we are raised up,
awakening into Reality
Qiyamat Now!
Qiyamat Now!
Collected articles from the Zine:
Qiyamat: a newsletter for friends of the Imam
This is a collection of articles from my zine which ran for about a year 1998-9. I collected those articles which mostly dealt with the topic of Qiyamat from a Nizari Ismaili perspective. Also collected here are some Moorish Orthodox Science text which cover the same theme in a post-modern religious framework. There is a hard to find text by Hakim Bey on Anarchism which is a political philosophy that many Moors hold and is a stream of thought in the Qiyamat (the end of Law).
