Artwork
Surah Baqarah Last Two Ayats
2021
Description
This beautiful wall decor is meticulously crafted by hand using a precision craft blade on a thin sheet of vinyl.
Story
Tusif, this artwork presents the last two verses of Surah Al-Baqarah (2:285–286) as both creed and supplication—faith affirmed, then mercy requested. In a curator’s reading, the calligraphy becomes a living environment: “Allah” dispersed throughout the field suggests divine nearness, while the hive-like geometry evokes order, community, and a disciplined spiritual architecture. The composition’s upward flow and “curtains of nūr” gesture toward the unseen realm, with the reference to Sidrat al-Muntahā framing these verses as a threshold moment—where human capacity meets divine generosity. The symbolic bird introduces ascent and protection, and the discreet inclusion of the Prophet’s blessed sandal motif functions as an emblem of adab (reverent presence) rather than portraiture, keeping the work within Islamic visual sensitivity. As an Islamic reading, the entire surface echoes the verses’ central promise: belief, responsibility, and a compassion that does not burden beyond ability—culminating in the heartfelt plea for pardon, mercy, and help against what overwhelms.
Quran Verse
Last two Ayats of Surah Baqarah (285-286)
