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Band of Blue


Band of Blue
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Copyright: Naseer Yahya (Yahya) (7)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-04-18
Categories: Architecture
Exposure: f/4.2
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-04-18 18:06
Viewed: 493
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
I took the advice of a TrekEarth'er and decided to use a bit of photoshop on this to make it appear more of what it really looks like to the eye than how it came out from the photograph.

This is a band of Arabic calligraphy that runs inside the cube above the 'musullah' [prayer hall] in the masjid of Urbana, IL. ["CIMIC"]

As far as I know the masjid has been there since 1986 right next to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. And... as far as I know, the calligraphy was done by a former Sudanese student at the university here.

The band is of two verses from the Quran in Surah al-Anam [6:162-163]... what is pictured is the beginning part of the verse on the left: (( "Say: My prayer, worship... {not pictured: my life & death, are all for Allah, Sustainer of the worlds - no partner in divinity has He; thus I am bidden... ||| continued on right side of picture} ...and I am the first/foremost among the muslims [~those who surrender themselves to God]"))
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Nice work Yaha, I see a bit camera shake, may be due to slow shutter speed?
Beautiful caligraphy, niether can I deny the beauty of those words. Thanks for sharing.
H Zubair

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  • abdur Silver Star Critiquer [C: 25 W: 0 N: 2] (81)
  • [2006-04-19 4:10]

Peace be upon you. This is a very nice shot. The Arabic calligraphy is always eye-catching to everyone who even doesn’t know how to read. Thanks for sharing the background info.

Abdur Rahman

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