I have recently been taking a more metaphorical, mystical approach to Islam, the Qur'an, and Allah (swt), and was hoping to I guess express my understanding and see how horribly out of line I might be lol.

To begin with, I believe that the central concept of Allah within Islam to be tawhid, the idea that Allah is the absolute One, unable to be divided into further parts.

This leads to certain implications that are crucial to my thought, but the main one is that Allah (swt) through tawhid cannot be known or spoken of directly, since meaning itself, via semiotics, must contain a differential system of disparate terms to gain meaning.

Since Allah is absolute Oneness, Allah cannot mean. Since Allah cannot mean, we can only understand Allah through "empty signifiers" words that bring our mind closer to the One without our intellect being able to fully comprehend it since it is beyond meaning itself.

Which brings me to my interest in Daoism and Buddhism. The beginning of the Dao De Ching states that: The Dao that can be named, is not the eternal Dao. This allings with tawhid according to me since it prescribes something outside our speech (logos) which governs all things.

And when it comes to Buddhism, it's ultimate goal is nirvana, the escape from samsara where the "self" ceases to exist, and only the casual aspects of origination remain. This mimics the Sufi aspiration to kill the ego so that all that remains is Allah, the One, and the Source, Creator, and Maintaner of all.

Buddhism rejects gods, seeing them as caught in samsara like we are, and calls us towards striving to unite with the One, the not-self, and thus become indistinguishable from Allah (swt) as merely a multitude of thoughts and sensations that we ascribe to be the nafs but is, in turn, merely an extension of Allah's Will (qadar).

Everything is subject to Allah's Will, and Islam, to me, is the path towards complete submission and fulfillment of Allah's Will.

To do so, we act according to Dao, and we achieve nirvana--the freedom from the worry of Life and death and resurrection (rebirth).