Islam was a vehicle
to reach and love God
Muslims made it a pinnacle
and the vehicle became God
Yes, religion can be spiritual
raising you above yourself
Like pain can be instrumental
Crushing you below yourself
Like love can be psychotic
pushing you besides yourself
Like beauty can be hypnotic
pulling you beyond yourself
Above , below ,beside, beyond,
Whatever route to reach that ground
So clean, so pristine, so unbound
Where awareness in all its glory dawn.
Alara
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