Saturday, February 13, 2010

Allah and Your Hands

Sorry, I know I just posted but I have to do another one after finding out what I did tonight. I saw this artwork in my family's house and they said it was the 99 different names of Allah. They then explained to me how it's in all in our hands. Let me explain.

Look at your left hand, if you have younger hands, you'll have to look closer since the lines aren't as defined but you should see (with your thumb up) an upside-down "V" and a single line, "I." The symbols should look like this: ٨١. This is the number 81 in Arabic numerals. Now look at your right hand, thumb up, and you should see a single line "I" followed by the upside-down "V" again (just the opposite of the left hand, clearly). The symbols should look like this: ١٨. This is the number 18 in Arabic numerals. If you add up 81 and 18, the number you come up with is 99, the 99 names of Allah. I thought this was so cool, remarkable how somebody connected Islam with human hands so closely. But wait, there's more. Each of your fingers and your thumb has two lines splitting them into three sections each. With 15 sections on each hand, you get 30, and then you add three onto the 30 (because that's how many sections are on each finger) and you get 33. On the Islamic equivalent of rosary beads, there are 33 beads on the band. I'm not sure if you'll be as surprised and amazed by this as I was and I hope I explained it well but I just thought that was very interesting, it got me very excited and I had to share it.

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