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Perspicio

" Man through his history has made many important discoveries. These phenomenons always existed but man realized their existence gradually and hence discovered them.

One such a realization was the Perspective, which was implemented in artwork during the Renaissance period. Perspective in the graphics art is a representation of a 3D image (the world as our eye sees) on a 2D surface like the paper. One of the most important characteristic of Perspective is that the closer the object, the larger it is, and the further the object, the smaller it is.

If you come to think of it, this perspective is not limited to the physical world in many ways.

Allah is the Greatest, something we proudly listen to and claim in every Azaan. But in our daily lives, we are insecure of the limited opportunities for ourselves in Allah's small world and our problems are too big for us to handle.

And how can we truly realize the Takbeer of Allah? Surely the strength of Allah and his authority will look small to us because we are farther away from him (and his chosen ways) and the rewards and problems of this world look significant and vast to us because we are more closer to them.

A simple phenomena brought to us by artists 600 years ago that the closer a thing, the greater (in size) it is. So ask yourself if Allah is truly the Akbar. If he is not, we need to move closer to him. If he is, then everything else in this world should be seen in its true perspective; small (insignificant) from a distance (without attachment)."

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