Neo Plasticism, also known as, "De Stijl"

This is a work in progress blog. I will add my thoughts on the style of Piet Mondrian over the coming days, insha Allah.

Climate Change and the passage "Bitter thorned fruit and some few stunted lote trees"...

"But they turned away (from God), and We sent against them the Flood (released) from the dams, and We converted their two garden (rows) into "gardens" producing bitter fruit, and tamarisks, and some few (stunted) Lote-trees." ~ Saba Ayat 16

* "Arim" ( = Dams or Embankments) may have been a proper noun, or may simply mean the great earth-works fined with stone, which formed the Maarib dam, of which traces still exist. The French traveller T.J. Arnaud saw the town and ruins of the Dam of Maarib in 1843, and described its gigantic works and its inscriptions: See Journal Asiatique for January 1874: the account is in French. For a secondary account in English, see W.B. Harris. Journey Through Yemen, Edinburgh, 1893. The dam as measured by Arnaud was two miles long and 120 ft. high. The date of its destruction was somewhere about 120 A.D., though some authorities put it much later.* ~ Hafiz Abdullah Yusuf Ali Tafsir
* The flourishing "Garden of Arabia" was converted into a waste. The luscious fruit trees became wild, or gave place to wild plants with bitter fruit. The feathery leaved tamarisk, which is only good for twigs and wattle-work, replaced the fragrant plants and flowers. Wild and stunted kinds of thorny bushes, like the wild Lote-tree, which were good for neither fruit nor shade, grew in place of the pomegranates, the date-palms and the grape-vines. The Lote-tree belongs to the family Rhamnaceae, Zizyphus Spina Christi, of which (it is supposed) Christ’s crown of thorns was made, allied to the Zizyphus Jujuba, or ber tree of India. Wild, it is shrubby, thorny and useless. In cultivation it bears good fruit, and some shade, and can be thornless, thus becoming a symbol of heavenly bliss: lvi. 28.* ~ Hafiz Abdullah Yusuf Ali Tafsir

[56:27] The Companions of the Right Hand,- what will be the Companions of the Right Hand?

[56:28] (They will be) among Lote-trees without thorns,

[56:29] Among Talh trees with flowers (or fruits) piled one above another,-

When I examine this passage concerning bitter thorned fruit and some few stunted lote trees, I think of the Divine Order of Allah (swt) and how everything of nature and of the heavens and the earth praise and glorify Allah. "Subaha lillahi ma fie al samawati wa ma fie al ardi." And it seems that all of nature rejoices at this Order of Subjegation to Allah, except some amongst the jinns and mankind. Again I mention the circumambulation of the celestial bodies (sun, moon, stars, planets) on a macrocosm level to the tawaf of the pilgrims of Hajj to the circumambulation of the electrons about the nucleii of atoms, on a microcosm level, all point to that everything in the heavens and the earth rejoices at the being subject to Allah.

[55:5] The sun and the moon follow courses (exactly) computed; (Al Shamsi wal Qamar bihusbani)

[55:6] And the herbs and the trees - both (alike) bow in adoration. (Al Najmi wal Shajar yasjudani)

All of Allah's subjects do not wish to assist in rejection of Allah (swt) so when you look at the response of the fruits turning bitter and thorned...the reality of this is amazing, nothing short of amazing. A person, depending upon his or her values and refinement, will produce a type of cultivation (familial, social, intellectual, etc) If that individual falls short in terms of value, then what happens? If they are a bad example to the youth of the family? If they treat friends and neighbors poorly? If intellectually they offer poor or deficient information? People will make it so that that individual cannot have effect; nor reach in those particular circles were they are failing. Bitter thorned fruit to me implies fruit that does not wish to be reached because the cultivator was using the resource in rejection of Allah. Bitter implies to me the responses of those that do not wish to be used; or do not wish to be turned away from the Order of Allah. Allah's response.

So when this is viewed in light of climate change effecting crops, water levels and weather patterns...is it money that is a retardent or reverser of what is taking place...or what took place at Saba 16 of Holy Quran? Perhaps, if used for charity. Or is it getting one's self and community and country back aligned with the Divine Order of Allah that all of His (swt) subjects rejoice to be in?

(Suratul Hadid Ayat 1)³³³¹¹³³²

1. Whatever is in the heavens and the earth let it declare the Praises and Glory of Allah: for He is Exalted in Might, the Wise.
Allah has said, that "He has created the Jinnies and the Mankind that they may worship Him (swt)". But, in addition, it can be inferred by the above ayat that all matter is to give praise and glory to Allah (swt). What then becomes the issue? That matter and that value being, that which comprises that matter in subjegation to Allah (swt), being used to serve another purpose; or purposes other than praising and glorifying Allah. When one examines the circumambulation of the Hajjis (pilgrims) performing the tawaf around the Kaaba during Hajj, one can see that this is consistent with what the celestial bodies of the planets and moons and stars are doing. They swim along in the same type of orbit on a macrocosm level. In addition, when one examines the electrons swimming along in an orbit of the nucleii of the atoms of the periodic table of elements, then, on a microcosm level one can see the fulfillment of this tawaf that the Hajjis (pilgrims) make around the Kaaba. That Ayat 1 of Suratul Hadid is not only evident in the plants, trees, flowers and other matter of the heavens and earth, but also, in the elements that comprise them.
What else does this then remind us of? When the Messiah Al Masihu Isa Ibn Maryam (saws) prayed "...Thy Kingdom come Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven...", this is clearly speaking of the order of heaven on earth, as well. The tawaf of the Hajjis; the orbit of the celestial bodies; and the circumambulation of the electrons about the nucleus of atoms...all tend to point towards this "heavenly order or will of Allah" for all of His (swt) creation. So, what is the purpose of mentioning this? As my Great-Aunt would say, "It is all in Divine Order." Well, what does that mean? This (Al-Islam) is the answer to that prayer of the Messiah over 2000 years ago. And to take matter, and some jinns and some humans out of that order is disorderly, an inconvenience, an imposition.
"Nay, thunder repeateth His praises, and so do the angels, with awe: He flingeth the loud-voiced thunder-bolts, and therewith He striketh whomsoever He will..yet these (are the men) who (dare to) dispute about God, with the strength of His power (supreme)!" This is a further illustration of matter praising and glorifying Allah. Lightening and thunder are particle matter, but, also light. The elements that comprise light or lightening give praise and glorification to Allah (swt). In another passage...a passage of Prophet Isaiah, lightening is being used by these special servants of Allah called "Living Beings" that appear in a vision to the Prophet Isaiah. A portion of this passage reads, "Isaiah 1:12. They went in whatever direction the spirit chose, and they moved straight forward in all directions without having to turn around. 13 The living beings looked like bright coals of fire or brilliant torches, and it looked as though lightning was flashing back and forth among them. 14 And the living beings darted to and fro like flashes of lightning." It is not hard, today, to imagine communication between creations of Allah that move at the speed of light. When one observes the computer and today's worldwideweb we have internet browsers that move at the speeds of light. A text message or email can travel as fast. "In the atmospheric electrical discharge, a leader of a bolt of lightning can travel at speeds of 36,000 km/h (22,000 mph), and can reach temperatures approaching 30,000 °C (54,000 °F), hot enough to fuse silica sand into glass channels known as fulgurites which are normally hollow and can extend some distance into the ground. ~ Wikipedia."
One can observe that the "Lord's Prayer" or prayer of the Messiah in the Kitab contains 7 verses and that each of the verses of Suratul Fatehah is an anwser and "Opening" to the Quranul Kareem and the system or order that he (saws) was requesting. (Note that the Messiah said in the Injeel that ""Not all people who sound religious are really people of god. They may refer to me as 'Lord,' but they still won't enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The decisive issue is whether they obey my Lord in heaven (Allah). ~ Matt 7:21

Matthew 6:

9 Pray like this (The Messiah (saws) said to pray to the Lord in Heaven and not to him. (saws)) :

(1 verse) Our Father (more accurately Lord. Reference Surahtul Ikhlas.) in heaven,

(2 verse) may your name be honored.

10 (3 verse) May your Kingdom come soon.

(4 verse) May your will be done here on earth, just as it is in heaven.

11 (5 verse) Give us our food for today,

12 (6 verse) and forgive us our sins, just as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.

13 (7 verse) And don't let us yield to temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

Compare the above 7 verses to the 7 verses below:

"[1:1]In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

[1:2]Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds,

[1:3]The Beneficent, the Merciful.

[1:4]Owner of the Day of Judgment,

[1:5]Thee (alone) we worship; Thee (alone) we ask for help

[1:6]Show us the straight path,

[1:7]The path of those whom Thou hast favoured; Not the (path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray."
[Elements, matter, circumambulation, tawaf, orbit, electrons, nucleii, pilgrims, Hajjis, planets, stars, moons, light, lightening, Hajj, Prayer and prophecy of the Messiah fulfilled with Islam (aka The Lord's Prayer), Surahtul Fatehah, Quranul Kareem]