L'àdab del cal·lígraf

De l’àdab del cal·lígraf Pablo Khalid Casado The Qalam and its Shavings The qalam we use to write calligraphy might seem like a simple piece of bamboo, but for Muslim calligraphers it has a very special significance and a number of rituals are closely connected to the qalam [pen]. In Muslim literature, we find that the first thing God created was the qalam, and its duty was to record every event that happens in one’s life. Similarly, we find that in the Qur’an a whole chapter, Surat al-Qalam, the sixty-eight chapter, takes its name from the qalam. We should also keep in mind that the calligrapher spends a great amount of time every day, and during his whole life, with the qalamin his hand, such that the qalam becomes a prolongation of the calligapher’s hand. A prolongation which is used to express some ideas and feelings on the paper. The qalamtherefore, is the most sacred tool for a calligrapher. As such, a ritual respected by students of calligraphy is to keep all the shavings you get every single time you cut and sharpen your qalam. Most of what calligraphers write, not everything but most of it, is directly related to Qur’anic verses of Hadiths (teachings from the prophet Muhammad). And this is one of the reasons why we keep the shavings of the qalam; we don’t want to throw a part of the tool we use to write sacred texts to the trash and mixt them with garbage. Therefore, the tradition says that the calligrapher has to keep all his shavings since the day he starts learning calligraphy until the day that he dies, and when death falls upon a calligrapher, his family collects the shavings and puts them to fire in boiling the water they will use, to wash the body of the calligrapher (in Muslim tradition, the family is still in charge of the deceased’s body). In other words, when the calligrapher disappears from this world in its material form, the shaving of his qalam also disappears. Khalid Pablo Casado, The art of Islamic Calligraphy: Rituals and Traditional Art. themaydan.com January 8, 2018. Fotografia: http://bit.ly/2HxVXIl - Artículo*: Lili Castella - Más info en psico@mijasnatural.com / 607725547 MENADEL Psicología Clínica y Transpersonal Tradicional (Pneumatología) en Mijas Pueblo (MIJAS NATURAL) *No suscribimos necesariamente las opiniones o artículos aquí enlazados
De l’ àdab del cal·lígraf Pablo Khalid Casado The Qalam and its Shavings The qalam we use to write calligraphy migh...

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