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Especially after Fajir prayer, i would walk slowly trying to feel how i can fit within what is surrounding me at the moment like trees, birds, and the light of the early morning. I try to close my eyes and simply imagine myself how i can fit, and i ask myself, am i the invader of this beautiful place? am i the protector? am i the builder? what am i? am i just a foreign object?
Actually very interesting...I had thought you might see the similarity in more than you did. But interesting that you found the last one slightly similar.
I think symbolically pertain to 3 dimensional space.
Well, i think it's more than 3 dimensions. It's as if i'm not convinced of what i see by my eyes, as if it's just a deception. I often ask family members and friends what they would feel while they are in a dream, and i mean, when they see weird stuff which you would never believe while you are awake. Like you are in one spot, and suddenly you find yourself in a different city, or when you meet and talk to dead people, or when you see dinosaurs, angels, anything which you would never have slightly believed if it was while you are awake.
All of these dreams--inside the dream--are normal, but when we wake up we think, oh, that was weird. What if we are now on a different type of dream?
Actually, there is one scholar who tried to answer that question. He mentioned that in the hereafter we would feel as if we just woke up from a dream which lasted couples of hours or even minutes.
What do you think?
Well actually we ourselves live through time, so that's at least a fourth dimension; x, y, z and t.
Your post makes me think of two things I have heard...
'And when they realise the true reality it will be as if their whole life had been as a blinking of an eye'
and
'We live a dream in the dream of Allah'
By the way, on the last one i thought the roots of the trees was similar to the Yiddish/Hanukkah and the picture on the left was similar to a cross. weird huh?
Have to ever thought of the Kaaba as representative of 3 dimensional space? After all Kaaba=Cube?
To me, Kaaba is just a symbol for something bigger. Something like gravity, magnet, field, but never thought of kaaba in itself to mean something in specific. The first time you reach Kaaba you will feel a strong spiritual experience. I remember the first time i touched the Kaaba, i felt a slight pain in my heart. It was not a pain but more like it were touched from the inside. I know this discussion is not about mysticism but sometimes i do feel that what people often think of as something mystic, unable to be touched, is actually very touchable but only to those who can see, and of course not to human beings, at least not in this earthly life.
When it comes to Kaaba "cube" being 3 dimensional space i often find myself bonded by suggestive theories by others in this field, not my own reflections because alot of people talked about it.
I was actually thinking to put together a Survey on survey monkey to post here to see what people think of varying images...
Have to ever thought of the Kaaba as representative of 3 dimensional space? After all Kaaba=Cube?
Can you explain ?
Thanks for completing the limited survey tho, it will help me formulate the eventual format for the test...
I love surveys
Can i ask you what was your religion before ?
Maybe it can explain why you see more symbols than us.
Maybe.
So, what's the signs ans symbols that you see other than the Kaaba ?
Well, maybe i didn't pay attention to that.
I try to understand things in the simple manner as possible.
It's like maths for exemple. I never understood why using all the formulas when it's possible to calculate in a more simplify manner (ex: the fractions)
So maybe it's me. I see things like they are and don't try to find symbols.
Also, it's possible that muslims used to think in term of symbols/signs in the early times of Islam as they were very curious about philosophia, astronomy ect.
But muslims of nowadays are not really teached about that.
We go straight to the point.
Maybe i'm wrong, that's just my impression.
It's like maths for exemple. I never understood why using all the formulas when it's possible to calculate in a more simplify manner (ex: the fractions)