THE TRUE SOURCE OF ART
The honey bees which make flawless hexagonal combs, beavers which build dams with fine engineering calculations, termites which erect complicated skyscrapers with their blind eyes, weaver birds, wild bees which make apartment blocks out of paper, and thousands of other expert architects in nature…
The skills of these living creatures reveal to us their skills, which are actually given to them by Allah, by exhibiting these surprising works of architecture. Each one of them acts by Allah’s inspiration. Because, as is announced in a verse of the Qur’an:
“ I have put my trust in Allah, my Lord and your Lord. There is no creature He does not hold by the forelock” (Qur’an Huud, 11: 56)
Yet there is still another living thing that brings forth architectural marvels with the inspiration and skills given him by Allah, to whom the most marvelous works in the world belong. That creature is man.
Many people in our day are unaware of this fact. And in the face of peoples’ works, they only feel amazement for those people themselves. Whereas it is Allah who gives a human being his body, emotions, intelligence and who inspires in him the feelings of art and aesthetics.
The marvelous works which people think are man’s are actually each and every one a manifestation of Allah’s infinite art and knowledge. For this reason, the real one we should truly wonder at and praise in the face of every kind of beauty, aesthetic, and splendour we see is the great Allah, who created all these concepts and who inspires these as He wishes in the living things He creates.
He reveals this in a verse of the Qur’an:
“All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the heavens and the Lord of the earth,Lord of all the worlds. All greatness belongs to Him in the heavens and earth He is the Almighty, the All-Wise” (Qur’an Al-Jaatsiyah, 45:36-37 )
From Film Harun Yahya: Architect In Nature
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