Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Light

I have to admit that after a short reflection of what 'light' is all about - i.e after having a rather 'short but impactful' discourse with someone yesterday, January 15th - the concept of light as iterated by Al-Ghazali has emerged fairly clearly in the horizon of my visual. Al-Ghazali made it clear by saying (derived from the particular verse - the Light - that:

God is the light of the heavens and earth; the likeness of His light is as a niche wherein is a lamp, the lamp in a glass, the glass as it were a glittering star kindled from a blessed tree, an olive that is neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil well-nigh would shine, even if no fire touched it; light upon light; God guides to His light whom He will. And God strikes similitudes for men, and God knowledge of everything.

Thank you, whoever that someone is.