The Illusion of Separation
This piece is part of a wider reflection on human origin, distortion, and return.
It follows the root-logic of S-L-M and the structural break of False Fatherhood.
What remains is the illusion in between:
the belief that we were ever separate at all.
The Qur’an begins the human story with a quiet but revolutionary statement:
People, be mindful of your Lord, who created you from a single soul,
and from it created its mate, and from the pair of them spread
countless men and women far and wide; be mindful of God,
in whose name you make requests of one another.
Beware of severing the ties of kinship:
God is always watching over you.
(Q 4:1)
No hierarchy. No ownership. No superiority.
Only a single origin — a shared soul, differentiated but not divided.
Everything that came later was the illusion.
Creation Begins in Unity, Not Order
Many have inherited a linear creation myth:
man first, woman second, children third.
But the Qur’an does not support this structure.
It does not describe a hierarchy of creation.
It describes a self-mirroring soul:
He is the One who created you from a single soul
then made from it its spouse so he might find comfort in her.
(Q 7:189)
Comfort, not subordination.
Reciprocity, not derivation.
A return to the self, not a split from it.
The Qur’an does not present woman as an afterthought.
It presents human existence as a twin-structure emerging from one essence.
The illusion of order is cultural, not divine.
How Illusion Forms: Imported Myths and Inherited Structures
If the Qur’an begins with unity, why do so many communities begin with hierarchy?
Two distortions accumulate over time:
External narratives.
The idea that woman was created from a man’s rib — a story found in earlier traditions, not in the Qur’an — was already circulating in the region. Because it aligned with existing patriarchal norms, it entered communal imagination without being challenged, even though the Qur’an never teaches it.
Inherited authority.
Societies impose their own patriarchal norms and then project them back into scripture. What was cultural becomes treated as divine.
The Qur’an repeatedly warns against this mechanism:
But when it is said to them, ‘Follow the message that God has sent down,’
they answer, ‘We follow the ways of our fathers.’ What!
Even though their fathers understood nothing and were not guided?
(Q 2:170)
This is the same pattern as in the story of Abraham and Āzar:
structures passed down as truth,
maintained simply because they were inherited.
The illusion is old.
But the text exposes it in every age.
Differentiation Is Not Domination
The Qur’an speaks of pairs as signs — ayāt — woven into the very structure of creation:
Another of His signs is that He created spouses from among yourselves for you
to live with in tranquillity: He ordained love and kindness between you.
There truly are signs in this for those who reflect.
Another of His signs is the creation of the heavens and earth,
and the diversity of your languages and colours.
There truly are signs in this for those who know.
(Q 30:21-22)
The pattern is not oppositional.
It is complementary.
Two halves of one unfolding.
This verse is not about marriage alone.
It is about the architecture of existence:
unity → differentiation → reunion through mercy.
Tranquility, love, and mercy are the axis — not hierarchy.
The Womb as Divine Symbol: R-Ḥ-M
Where patriarchy projected God as Father,
the Qur’an overturns that projection completely.
God is never called Father — not once.
Instead, the Qur’an uses names rooted in the womb:
al-Raḥmān
al-Raḥīm
Both from:
R-Ḥ-M — womb, nourishment, generative mercy
This is not biological imagery.
It is structural:
mercy as origin,
care as creation,
compassion as law.
And the Qur’an makes this explicit:
When those who believe in Our revelations come to you say, ‘Peace be upon you.
Your Lord has taken it on Himself to be merciful: if any of you has foolishly done a bad deed, and afterwards repented and mended his ways, God is most forgiving and most merciful.’
(Q 6:54)
And to show the centrality of this principle:
113 of the 114 surahs begin with “In the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy.”
This is not ornamentation — it is the axis of the Qur’anic worldview:
R-Ḥ-M as the generative root of existence, return, and repair.
The universe is not held together by domination.
It is held together by mercy.
This is the deepest crack in the illusion —
the point where patriarchal readings collapse under their own weight.
The Individual Soul Stands Alone
Another layer of the illusion is the belief that someone else can carry your spiritual weight:
that a man represents a woman,
that a hierarchy mediates responsibility,
that blame can be shifted upward or downward inside the structure.
But the Qur’an dissolves representation completely.
No one carries you.
No one shields you.
No one answers for you.
And no one can be blamed for your choices.
Say, ‘Should I seek a Lord other than God, when He is the Lord of all things?’
Each soul is responsible for its own actions; no soul will bear the burden of another.
You will all return to your Lord in the end, and He will tell you the truth about your differences.
(Q 6:164)
Whoever does good does it for his own soul and
whoever does evil does it against his own soul:
your Lord is never unjust to His creatures.
(Q 41:46)
There is no collective spirituality inside households.
No man carries a woman.
No woman carries a man.
No ancestor carries a descendant.
No leader carries a follower.
“They misled me” is not a valid defence.
“They told me so” is not an accepted excuse.
Hierarchy does not transfer accountability.
Every soul stands alone before God, because every soul comes from the same origin.
The Myth of Superiority Falls Apart
In the Qur’anic logic, superiority is not a virtue —
it is the first illusion, the root-corruption that unravels individuals and entire societies.
And the first being to fall into this illusion is not man,
not woman,
but Satan himself.
We created you, We gave you shape, and then We said to the angels,
‘Bow down before Adam,’ and they did.
But not Iblis: he was not one of those who bowed down.
God said, ‘What prevented you from bowing down as I commanded you?’
and he said, ‘I am better than him: You created me from fire and him from clay.’
(Q 7:11-12)
This is the core insight:
the first act of disobedience in the Qur’an is pride —
the ego claiming a higher rank because of what it is made of.
Fire vs. clay.
Lineage vs. lineage.
Identity vs. identity.
The illusion is always the same:
difference mistaken for superiority.
This is why the Qur’an consistently dismantles hierarchies —
because hierarchy is how ego turns itself into an idol.
Every form of:
• gender hierarchy
• ethnic superiority
• tribal lineage
• inherited caste
• religious exceptionalism
is a repetition of the same satanic posture: “I am better.”
The Qur’an turns the story inside out.
Superiority is the voice of ego.
Equality is the structure of creation.
Adam’s honour does not come from clay,
but from spirit, responsibility, and trust.
And even the clay is not a marker of rank.
The name Ādam points to this:
the one shaped from the skin of the earth,
from all its colours,
the every-human who carries the full spectrum of creation within himself.
Likewise, every human being is honoured not by material origin,
but by consciousness, surrender, and character.
Pride — not desire, not weakness —
is the first corruption.
And whenever communities build hierarchies,
they unknowingly rebuild the very idol Abraham shattered
and reenact the very illusion Iblis voiced.
Returning to the Origin
Once the illusion of superiority dissolves,
the return becomes possible.
The Qur’an ends the human journey the same way it began it:
not with hierarchy, but with wholeness —
the soul returning to the One it came from.
Peace is not found in rank.
It is found in remembering the unity that preceded all division.
Difference is real.
Hierarchy is not.
Separation is the illusion.
Mercy is the substance.
The womb is the root.
The human being — Ādam — carries all colours of the earth.
To become whole is not to become identical.
It is to remember that we were never truly divided.
Your Lord knows what their hearts conceal and what they reveal.
He is God; there is no god but Him; all praise belongs to Him in this world and the next;
His is the Judgment; and to Him you shall return.
(Qur’an 28:69-70)
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