“Don’t worship Allah so He may give you. Rather, worship Him so He may be pleased. For when He is pleased, He will astonish you with His Gifts.”
By the dawn
And the ten nights
And the even and the odd
O you tranquil soul!
Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing
[al-Fajr: 1-3; 27-28]
Loftiness is attained in accordance to one’s struggles,
And whoever seeks nobility, remains vigilant by night.
Whoever wishes to achieve without due effort,
Will waste their life seeking what’s impossible.
You search for glory and yet you sleep at night,
It’s only the seeker of pearls who dives deep into the sea.
– Imam al-Shafi’i, al-Diwan
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Calligraphy Studies
One of the many things that interest me when it comes to Islamic Art is calligraphy 🙂 It’s absolutely amazing mashaa’Allaah – a lot of detail to it and precision.
A couple of days ago I was watching a program on al-Fajr channel, a specialised channel for Qur’aan and its sciences (my favourite channel!) the documentary was on the print & publication of different mus-hafs and their distribution around the world. It featured a shaykh who was very talented in calligraphy, writing out ayaat of the Qur’aan for the actual publication of a mus-haf, it was beautiful subhan’Allaah and very inspirational.
Soon afterwards, apart from my studies in Arabic and Qur’aan, I decided to study some calligraphy. Currently we’re learning Naskh script, which is the script of the current madani mushafs – afterwards bi’ithnillaah we should move on to Kufi, Diwani, Farsi and possibly Andalusian inshaa’Allaah. Naskh script and Andalusi are two that I would probably like to carry on in the future
[My japanese calligraphy pen and ‘al-Mujtahid’ pencil]
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[A little present from my teacher 🙂 ]
Calligraphy is an entire field of art which is very geometrical and has its own set of rules. Sizes and shapes of letters are based on a particular mizaan (scale of pattern) which revolves around the ‘nuqtah’ (the diamond shaped dot) :
What do you think of calligraphy… do you have a favourite script?
Below are some classical calligraphic scripts mashaa’Allaah:
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Some info: http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%B7_%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A