It is He Who brings out the living from the dead, and brings out the dead from the living

It is He Who brings out the living from the dead, and brings out the dead from the living, 2014from the Sama’a Dance series, Lasercut plexiglass
30x14 cm

Sculpture

“He brings the living out of the dead and brings the dead out of the living and brings to life the earth after its lifelessness. And thus will you be brought out” ar-rūm (19)

Prophet Mohammed pbuh said “read the Quran and beseech it’s wonders”, reading it is key to understand it. It was brought to people as a linguistic miracle and therefor only through linguistic we can unlock the deep, hidden meanings in it.

The artist was a Quran memorizer in her childhood and because of that her passion to understand more about it grew along with her as she was constantly told to read it by heart to understand it purely and then say it out loud. Quran could be interpreted by its utterances deviating from its initial concepts into other meanings that go alongside and commit to the laws of observation and frontiers of thought, and exalt the Lord and deem him above fault and error.

From this principle the artist read the verse “he brings the living out of the dead and brings the dead out of the living” from a rather personal perspective, one of the most simple yet complicated human experience which is love, the inspiration for most ancient and modern poets. The installation forms of different poems put in the order of love, loss, love, loss as an interpretation of bringing life out of death and death out of life. What’s interesting is that in the referenced verse there is no act of death mentioned, they were all acts of bringing life to or out of something.