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GenEd 1134

ChiChi Ejikeme

Hello everyone. Attached below is my calligram made using notability. For my theme, I decided to focus on a famous quote from Rabia al-Adawiyya, the saint and Sufi mystic we discussed in class. She carried a bucket of water and a torch to quell the fires of hell and burn down the gardens of paradise. She believed that people were more concerned with God's dominion over their eternal fate, rather than developing a relationship of unconditional love with God. Instead of worshipping God out of fear of hell or hope for paradise, one should worship with no ulterior motive. I depicted this in my calligram, which depicts a wave of water working to quell the fires of hell as they burn down the cherry blossom trees of paradise. I also attached my original Arabic script, as it may have been cut off a little bit by the shading. Thank you for your time.

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47. Willie Lowry For this project I chose the word “Tawhid”. For “scenery” I used the main symbols associated with all 3 Abrahamic religions and then had Tawhid written into the starry night sky. This night sky could resemble a number of stories associated with all the books. Such as the Isra and Mi’raj which are a part of the night journey where Muhammed ascended to heaven and spoke with God. From the Torah, Jacob, or Yaqub, as known in Islam, wrestled with God under the night sky and that is where he received the name Israel. And in the Bible Jesus, or Isa, was taken away to be crucified late at night. Tawhid is a term that relates to the oneness of God. This idea can be taken literally as God being one entity, and that there are no gods other than God. This phrase can also be related to the unity of God. Unity, as characteristic of God, being uncompromisable and acting as a single being. God as the joining force between all things and people. The idea of God being supreme is, of course, a common trait shared between the Abrahamic religions. Beyond that fact, I chose these symbols along with this word as a representation of the “oneness” of these religions. Despite different ways of practice, different main figures, language barriers, and many other differences, these religions all pray and aim to serve, the same God. I wanted to highlight how they are distinct and yet together by replacing the star associated with the moon with the star of David. Despite the separation there is still an undividable unity between these groups, even if it does not always seem that way.