In this blog, I am going to keep my writing to a minimum, because I would like to leave you face to face with an art that speaks for itself.
An artist, as the name implies, is someone who continuously makes art. An artist cannot live without art. If they finish one work, they start another one. If they erase something during an artwork, that is because they want to correct or improve something. This is so, because an artist wants to mirror a beauty that is left ignored or voice a meaning that is otherwise unheard.
With this introduction, I would like to reflect on the Great Artist. He is an artist. How do we know this?
"Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and earth, and the alternation of the night and the day, and the [great] ships which sail through the sea with that which benefits people, and what Allah has sent down from the heavens of rain, giving life thereby to the earth after its lifelessness and dispersing therein every [kind of] moving creature, and [His] directing of the winds and the clouds controlled between the heaven and the earth are signs for a people who use reason." (Quran 2/164)
"Do you not see that Allah sends down rain from the sky, and We produce thereby fruits of varying colors? And in the mountains are tracts, white and red of varying shades and [some] extremely black. And among people and moving creatures and grazing livestock are various colors similarly." (Quran 35/27-28)
"And how many a sign within the heavens and earth do they pass over while they, therefrom, are turning away." (Quran 12/105)
Really, the art gallery of earth is so vast and full of so many works of art at both macro and micro scales that even if wanted to, we would not be able to grasp its grandeur. Even if we paid close attention, we would fail to appreciate its value and fail to praise its Maker as He deserves. But, we are going to suffice with presenting to that Artist our inability to appreciate Him sufficiently. To do so, dive into the following images:
And all this is taking place silently at a corner of the universe for millions of years. Although we call it "an unknown corner", it certainly is known by hard by its Designer. It must be known by Him, because the enthralling beauty at every corner of the universe at unimaginable scales tells that there is always and always an art on display for those who are patient and dedicated enough to watch it:
"And We have placed within the heaven great stars and have beautified it for the observers." (Quran 15/16)
Now, is it possible that an Artist who loves to make art, who pursues beauty at all scales, who leaves clues to His admirers to continuously watch Him at work, who loves His creation and who makes Himself loved, would leave all of this creation in ruin and not start a new page of art?
Rather, He might display different works of His to sharpen our thirst for new beauties, to energize our hearts and that we burn to meet Him...
And, indeed:
"I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits,
and in his word I put my hope.
I wait for the Lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning." (Psalm 130/5-6)
"And those who strive for Us - We will surely guide them to Our ways." (Quran 29/69)
