Dead Man's Hands
Ealam al Ahlam {Realm of Dreams}
A lone traveler worked his way across a trackless expanse of golden sand beneath the burning bronze disk of an unforgiving sun. He was a short man, dressed in the sky blue robes of a Bedouin, and his face was invisible inside the deep cowl of his hood. Heat shimmered in waves off the gilded dunes creating visual distortions wherever the wanderer looked. Mirages they were, hopes, passions and fears, all the emanations of the unencumbered mind. Dreams and nightmares. He knew them well for he was of them and yet apart, a being who straddled the wall of sleep that separated the waking world and the realm of dreams.
The traveler's journey seemed to take forever and yet ended abruptly at the shining white walls of Dhakira. The White City was a dreamscape analog of Alexandria and in many ways it was Alexandria for when humanity slept they inadvertently touched Dhakira. In fits and starts the sleeping inhabitants of Alexandria wandered the pearlescent avenues, marvelous marketplaces, pagan temples and forgotten palaces chasing their dreams or being chased by their nightmares.
The wanderer stood before the Western Gate, sometimes called the Green Gate or more appropriately the Turquoise Gate. The ancient Egyptians had revered Turquoise as a stone with mystical properties of protection and so the traveler could not just bypass the gate and enter the city at will. Rather he would need to bargain with the gatekeepers if he wished entrance to sublime Dhakira. The two guardians lay lounging in the shadow of the wall and both eyed him with speculative hunger. The sojourner hesitated for the gatekeepers were chimera, seductive amalgams of both the lioness and the daughters of ancient Egypt, they were Sphinxes.
Sphinxes names: Serket & Sopdet
- The Sphinxes's riddle
"I am the black child of a shining father,
a wingless bird flying to heaven,
every eye that meets me weeps, but not from grief.
What am I?"
Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! (God is Great!)
Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah. Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah. (I bear witness that there is no god except the One God.)
Ashadu anna Muhammadan Rasool Allah. Ashadu anna Muhammadan Rasool Allah. (I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of God.)
Hayya 'ala-s-Salah. Hayya 'ala-s-Salah. (Hurry to the prayer.)
Hayya 'ala-l-Falah. Hayya 'ala-l-Falah. (Hurry to salvation.)
Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! (God is Great!)
La ilaha illa Allah. (There is no god except the One God.)
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