Higher Place

(I think that the lowest common denominator thing is not only misrepresentation and dull, it's dangerous, because it casts disagreement somehow as kryptonite, and thereby limits our capacity to understand each other)

If you claim to be a wiser man, understand:

To dedicate your life to death in advance

When cured into a silver blade of sugar cane

Makes it so only ash remains, just to obtain

The loving of your mother

(In our faith tradition, we have a recognition of a few layers of brotherhood.

So, first, there is- one of the early Islamic scholars, [Al Ghazali?], recognized a few layers of brotherhood. So, he said, first, there's the [adamium?], the children of Adam, the brotherhood and sisterhood amongst the children of Adam, that there is a universal brotherhood that exists there.

And then, it becomes [ibrahimi?], that there is another closeness or distinction of Abrahamic brotherhood, those who claim the father Abraham, peace be upon him.

And then, there is the brotherhood within Christ in Islam, that Muslims also affirm a position, a unique distinction, of Jesus Christ, peace be upon him. And then there is the [muhammadium?], which is those who believe in the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, affirming a brotherhood amongst themselves.