I am not Muslim, but I recall Baraka's use of the lower-case "islam" to signify non-formal "surrender" to the divine e.g. as an internal subjective experience every being experiences. (Kid Khalila on sledding: "I don't try to steer, I just ride along and usually it turns out all right.")
Heresy isn't always liberation, but liberation is always heresy. Pharaoh calls islam shirk.
The point is unity in diversity, not homogeneity in the guise of the Supreme. The Supreme embraces all, is Lord of all, does not favor one at the expense of the many. A system or self can be Incomplete Or Uncertain. Either way everything goes back to the One, the Source without which we wouldn't be sitting here typing arguments back and forth. There is no absolute but the Absolute.
I'm going to indulge myself and post some cheezy Moorish Orthodox poetry.
AlhamdolelJah
mutters Dervishy Daoud
under his breath
as he inhales
& anticipates the next few swallows of wine,
the last in his cup, alas.
AlhamdolelJah
one of his many silent rememberings
of the Dao, Allah, Jesús, Shiva, etc.,
the unity in the multiplicity,
the nothing that contains all,
Great Mystery hu gave birth
to Great Spirit
arRahman arRahim
the Womb the Womb
or was it the gourd of chaos
& he's forgotten the wine waiting
his tongue & blood
& the recitation writes itself.
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