God doesn’t exist.

I was sitting dejected at a dog beach in Florida a few miles from Sarasota. The choices were Brohard, South Brohard or Bird Key. I had to take my dog Mischief to stretch her legs. Those were the days of solemn reflection and the beginning of silence. I hope you never experience those days. I would sit at my desk for hours and stare off into the distance. Aware and yet unaware. Suffering and not. Both like Schrodinger’s puzzle. I was trying to make sense in that state of mind of the works of Christian mystics. One of the apartment’s supers would sometimes check up on me. I would be on the first floor and I once saw him looking directly at me with his sunglasses from the ground floor with a tilted head. Through my unawareness, I became aware that a human face was staring at me. He waved, I nodded my head.

On that beach an older gentleman grew a fondness for my afflictions. He too would try and see what was happening. These days are terrible I told him once. Not worth living. We would meet sometimes at the beach and he once gave me and other beach goers a mango from his backyard. “God doesn’t exist” he said one day. I pointed out ants to him. How? He ignored my ants and repeated himself. I had no idea what he was trying to say. Back then, I had no idea about the System. And it’s gods. And “God”.

It’s impossible to deny creation. Ergo a Creator.

That’s it. That’s my statement of faith. I don’t need to show you the ‘greatest illusion’.

Humans live on this planet as if they have no faith in a Creator. The abuse and mistreat not just other humans but animals, insects, plants and the planet itself. Mostly they extract and very few of them give back. I am not certain what gives them the faith to live this way. They seem to believe that the Creator is infinitely forgiving. Perhaps the presumption is that he created such wonderful creations, he couldn’t possibly ask for an accounting later.

I am content now and I am no longer in Florida. I also don’t have a dog for companionship. Enjoy the song.

Here are the Arabic lyrics used in the chorus, along with their English translations:

يا سراب الاستقرار (Ya sarab al-istiqrar) Oh, illusion of stability

الكون رقص بلا قرار (Al-kawn raqsun bila qarar) The universe is a dance without rest

نجري ولا ندري أين (Najri wa-la nadri ayn) We run and we don't know where

نحن في حضن اليقين (Nahnu fi hudni al-yaqin) We are in the embrace of certainty

During the atmospheric breakdown later in the track, the soaring background vocals also chant a subtle, traditional invocation:

(يا لطيف... يا رؤوف) (Ya lateef... ya ra'oof...) O Gentle/Subtle One... O Compassionate One...

Let Gemini know what you think of how the two languages blend together in the track!