The primary profession of the Islamic faith *La ilaha ill'Allah* - No divinity by *The* divinity, no God but *The* God - taken esoterically, is a suggestion that there is no reality but The Reality; i.e., nothing in manifest or non-manifest existence but the Divine Itselfness, and all subsequent individuation therefore an itemized declension, or, to cut to the chase, there was only One Unique Being, period, for Whom everything apparently other than He is His particularized self-expression, which does not constitute an actual Otherness. - Rafi Zabor, "The Turn" (in Harper's, June 2004, p.56)