Beautiful and amazing!
Beauty
Extraordinary church
I’m honestly conflicted about this. I love the brutality but as a church – well I’ve seen barns that have more promise. Love the lines though.
The Church of the Oratory during construction, South Kensington, London
The Brompton Oratory is a large neo-classical Roman Catholic church. It is one of my favourite churches in London and one of the most well attended. I discovered this architectural drawing made during its construction in the early 1880s. And… Read More ›
My servants
When My servants ask thee concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them), I listen to the prayer of every supplicant when he calleth on Me: Let them also, with a will, Listen to My call, and believe in Me:… Read More ›
Rawda روضة الشهداء – The Garden of Martyrs in English.
Extracts from the most famous recital of the story of the Ahl al-Bayt. For the first time, this unique dhikr is mostly sung in English! Published on 23 May 2015.
Beauty
Antonio del Pollaiolo, Profile Portrait of a Young Lady, 1470 Gemaldegalerie, Berlin
Oldest footage of London – ever
extraordinary footage juxtaposed with the same scenes in London today
The Qur’an is like a bride – Rumi
The Qur’an is like a bride. Although you pull the veil away from her face, she does not show herself to you. When you investigate the Qur’an, but receive no joy or mystical unveiling, it is because your pulling at… Read More ›
Islam
Islam is the meeting between God as such and man as such. God as such: that is to say God envisaged, not as He manifested Himself in a particular way at a particular time, but independently of history and inasmuch… Read More ›
The Annunciation
The Annunciation by Henry Ossawa Tanner at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Tanner painted The Annunciation soon after returning to Paris from a trip to Egypt and Palestine in 1897. Tanner entered this painting in the 1898 Paris Salon exhibition,… Read More ›
‘a new Muslim cool’ – BBC
I have come across this Lego-inspired wallpaper graphic designed by Peter Gould in 2013. It says Asalamu Alaikum (Peace be upon you) in Kufic calligraphy. “Peter is among those young urban global Muslims leading the emergence of a new Muslim… Read More ›
The different forms of sacred art
“The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: compared with Gothic art, above all in its “flamboyant” style, Islamic art is contemplative rather than volitive: it is “intellectual” and not “dramatic,” and it… Read More ›
Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad – The Fitri (Natural) State of Man
fitra [noun] – inborn nature, innate disposition fitri [adjective] – natural, innate, primordial
I love Pre-Raphaelite art
Saint Cecilia by John Melhuish Strudwick [British Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1849-1935]
Church door
I found this on Tumblr – for some reason I love it
Blogging Theology 