What do the lyrics in “Desert Search For Techno Allah” mean?
Mr. Porest offers the following explanation: “Peter Lamborn Wilson’s book ‘Scandal-Essays in Islamic Heresy’ is probably what directly inspired Mr. Bungle for that track. This book best describes the concept…AND it’s a great book! The Qiyamat was, or is a powerful proclamation, a doctrine. It was proclaimed in 1164 AD by Hassan i Sabbah. It was an invitation to ‘participate in the pleasures of paradise on Earth.’ Quoting Wilson… ‘Qiyamat remains as a state of consciousness which anyone can adhere to or enter, a garden without walls, a sect without a church, a lost monument of Islamic history that refuses to be forgotten, standing outside time, a reproach or challenge to all legalism and moralism, to all the cruelty of the exoteric. An invitation to paradise.’ The actual definition is ‘The great resurrection …it’s about breaking the chains of law.’ The concept of Qiyamat is much more involved than this and I’d recommend the book! Ta’wil is the concept that Ismaili mysticism is bas
