De la fragilitat i la veritat

De la fragilitat i la veritat

Le centre c'est le coeur: c'est le plus faible mais il est aussi invincible. [...] On peut faire un usage faux de tout, même de la vérité, de même qu'on peut jouir de tout, même du plus pur. Consommer, cela veut dire détruire. On peut consommer jusqu'à Dieu de cette manière-là. Le comble, ce serait d'idôlatrer Dieu, c'est-à-dire d'en faire quelque chose de délectable pour notre petite jouissance esthétique personnelle.

Christian Bobin, La lumière du monde. Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 2001. Pàg. 67.

De robes i roses

De robes i perfum de roses

White undergarments and turn shoes form the foundation; each garment is gently kissed and placed with prayer upon the body. The sacred garments themselves are a symbol of union with God. The “skin of light”, the tenure, represents the ego’s shroud. The jacket, the destegul¸is a “bouquet of roses”, and the hirka or cloak is symbolic of the tomb, the part of the being that lures us to sleep. The sikke or hat is the tombstone. The elifnemed or belt represents the conscious separating for the Divine self from the human.

Shakina Reinhertz, Women called o the path of Rumi. The Way of the Whirling Dervish. Hohm Press, Prescot, Arizona, 2001.

Els llocs de la Veritat

Del perquè de la rosa 

La rose est sans pourquoi. 

Elle fleurit parce qu'elle fleurit sans se soucier d'elle-même et d'être regardée.

Angelus Silesius, Le Pèlerin chérubinique, traduït de l'alemany per Camille Jordens. Éditions du Cerf, 1994.

La lletra 'nûn'

Els secrets de la lletra nûn

Nuria García Masip

Surah Al Qalam (The Pen). Quran 68:1. The letter ´nun´ symbolizes the arch that floats on the waters, and the point in its interior represents the seed it contains. It is a symbol of resurrection, and of the transition to a new state. The letter `nun` symbolizes also the whale and it is connected in this sense with the Prophet Jonah (Yunus),who is reborn spiritually after his sojourn in the whale´s belly.

Text i cal·ligrafia : Nuria García Masip. https://nuriaart.com/gallery/nun-by-the-pen/

L'àdab del cal·lígraf (2)

L’àdab del cal·lígraf (2)

Pablo Khalid Casado

The Water and the Ink

[…] Something similar happens with the water we use to mix the ink. During the Ottoman Empire, calligraphers would only use rain water to make their own inks. As they say, rain is “Rahmatullah”, which means “mercy from God”. This is why, the calligraphers considered it the purest water they could use.

Nowadays, as well as rain water, we use rose water or distilled water, in an effort to avoid using tap water. This is because we are not sure if the pipes this water is passing through are completely clean; we don’t want to write something which has a sacred meaning for us with something which might be dirty or not pure enough.

The ink we use is made by soot, Arabic gum and water. In the past, calligraphers used to collect the soot from the oil lamp that illuminate the mosques and use that to make their own inks. The famous ottoman architect Mimar Sinan, also known as Sinan the Architect, for example, ordered his disciples to build a small room atop the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul during the construction phase. All the soot from the lamps were diverted to this room, where, once a year, calligraphers used to go and scratch the soot pasted at the walls and the roof; they would use tis soot in preparing their ink.

The calligraphers would use this ink to write the copies of Qur’an. They would later give these copies to the mosque as a charity. In other words, what originated in the mosque in a soot form, came back later to the same place in a beautiful handwritten Qur’an form and would stay there for a long time.

Pablo Khalid Casado, The art of Islamic Calligraphy: Rituals and Traditional Art. themaydan.com January 8, 2018.

Cal·ligrafia: Núria García Masip. https://nuriaart.com/. In this piece by Nuria García, we see a composition where this big letter "ha" stands out. This letter is used by Sufis during their sessions of meditation to reach the "hal", which is a sate of consciousness that is supposed to be in a higher level than the ordinary state and that brings you closer to your being, your essence, and therefore, your Lord.