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capricioussun · 10 months

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Outer Papyri Pictoris, Antares, and Aurigae

as suggested by @rainbowut

#outertale #outerfell #outerswap #ot pictoris #of antares #snow and hail #papyrus day #os aurigae #(his nickname might get changed later if I find one that fits better!

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srbachchan · 3 years

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DAY 4874

Jalsa, Mumbai July 2/3, 2021 Fri/Sat 9:44 AM

No birthdays today of the Ef .. I believe there are but having no knowledge of them at the moment .. and if there are some do let me know ..

... and another birthday found .. Ef Neha Srivastava .. greetings to you and the love of the Ef ..

No no no .. found one birthday .. just now after the post was posted .. courtesy another Ef and many others .. what a family we have .. love you ..

Birthday Ef .. Amit Fuhar ... love from us all ..

Formalities over ... haha .. 🤣🤣 .. back to business and apologies , for the delay .. the Euro went on for long and without seeing the results till the end went off into sleep mode and ..

... they rest me .. they plan the ending of the schedule and how they wish to celebrate this rather intricate shoot - the huge set , the Studio , the rain the monsoons .. and above all the stoppage due Covid, and then the limited hours of work after .. but all done with the calmness and efficiency of the Production Unit and a large crew of dedicated workers of which most of them are ladies .. all running about seeing that the work progresses smoothly and time line maintained , artists looked after , et all ..

.. and the Studio .. Chandivali Studios , one of its kind , large open air outdoor shoot facility .. and there has not been a single film of not just mine but of the entire Industry that has not shot in this Studio ..

My first film ‘Saat Hindustani’ to ‘GOODBYE’ now all in this premise ..

remembering the moments will be a task .. but the climax action of ‘DON’ that running picture that made it to the poster design of the film done here .. that drive in the car in DEEWAR to reach the temple in the death scene .. the temple itself built here .. the corridor and all .. the interior done in Rajkamal Studio , but all else of the section done here .. that same driveway decorated as I walk down to the shot in COOLIE after recovering ..and ManMohan Desai making it a festive occasion with band and flowers all over .. so embarrassed I was with all the attention .. but my insistence that the shot that felled me , my action sequence in the film , and the stoppage due to my injury which almost took my life, and my desire to start the shoot again after coming out of Hospital of the film from the same spot where I was injured .. the re setting of the Bangalore location here in Chandivali and me getting up and punching the villain to victory ..

the revolving restaurant of NASEEB .. and oh dear the list just goes on .. but the location , the Studio ever present ever welcoming by its most humble and simple owner, all all these years ..

and today well yesterday the birthday of one of the relatives and an invite ot come to the office .. and then a most humbling surprise .. they have an entire room filled with my posters and a dedication to me .. so moving and so touched by this ..

.. the simplicity and soft traditional values .. the continuance of them so dear and near us all .. the ‘tika’ on the forehead , the gentle ‘diya’ on the ‘thali’ and the ‘arti’ like moving it about the person as a blessing and invitation of welcome .. so many such gentle yet sustaining rituals .. so endearing and filled with great emotion and respect ..

And then back to the body protection and the routine of the gym and those that are so qualified in their profession of the medical, who discuss the finer details and give assurance and advice for a better living ..

Pictures today .. photographically .. so ever present and executable with the ease of a hand wave is the ‘player of the day’ so to say, in all respects.

A documented World .. pictorially never before , as detailed and available as today .. before too , but limited and reserved .. now immediate and open within seconds to the rest ..

SO ..

.. here we go ..

.. the expression of the mood of the shooting ..

.. that wall in the office of Chandivali Studio ..

.. a dedication to Cinema within the premise .. small spaced but large hearted ..

.. the coverings on top to control the lighting .. the leaves give ans soft feature to the camera frame .. and the one n the side brings a warmth to the aperture ..

.. and when the Assistant is too short to reach up to the point where the clap is required .. a little assistant me self ..

.. Director , DOP in discussion and how the shot be taken .. DOP , Sudha - Sudhakar Reddy .. was also the DOP on ‘JHUND’

.. a wave at the window on adjoining building to some onlookers who wave ..

... out

.. wait ..

.. and Chandivali Studio and their generous gift ...

.. the continuity and costume ladies , to get the position of the zip on the clothing right .. ‘no Sir .. a little higher .. as per our reference on the LapTop ..’

.. the odd one ..

.. out of the vehicle ..

.. into Vanity ..

.. arriving to Vanity with the green umbrella .. the other Vanities parked alongside .. Vanities never before , we just sat around on set or went for makeup only in the make up rooms at the back ..

.. the personal film panels in side the dedicated office ..

.. the inviting gate .. now efficiently done , but years before just a simple door and the surrounding area all wild and empty .. now filled with high rises and proper roads and offices and commercial activity .. how time changes .. when I would reach at 7 am for a 7am shift , at times the rest of the cast had not arrived or were late .. so I have watered the area around the gates and the drive in plants .. which have now become huge luscious trees ..

... dear dear .. too many pictures and too much talk .. t will be a burden to download all of this and shall be time consuming .. so ..

.. depart .. and before so the Assistant that informs of the next schedule .. gifts some sugar less chocolates as she felt after the Germany v England Euro game and my disappointment at my team support loss , to feel good again .. generous and sweet ..

Amitabh Bachchan

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peremadeleine · 4 years

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The [pattern] commonly reproduced today has Anne in a French hood with a gold letter ‘B’ hanging from a pearl necklace. Several examples survive. Neither pattern, however, can be regarded as authoritative since neither is earlier than fifty or sixty years after Anne’s death or linked to the portrait medal [struck during Anne’s life], either directly or via a common ancestor.

There is, however, a resolution of this pictorial game of ‘find the lady’. The key is an Elizabethan ring belonging to the Trustees of Chequers, the prime minister’s country residence. The head of the ring is hinged and opens to reveal two enamel portraits, one of Elizabeth circa 1575 and one of a woman in the costume of Henry VIII’s reign. wearing a French hood. [N]ot only is Anne by far the most likely woman of the previous generation to be thus matched with Elizabeth, the face mask is quite clearly that of the sitter in the Hever and National Portrait Gallery paintings. [...] There is thus an authenticated sequence for Anne Boleyn, comprising the medal, the Chequers enamel and the Hever/NPG pattern.

Fortunately, the sequence also has the effect of corroborating a seventeenth-century miniature...Charles I had this copied as ‘Anne Boleyn’ by John Hoskins the elder, and it is endorsed ‘from an ancient original’. How ‘ancient’ it is impossible to say. Although the relationship to examples in the NPG pattern is evident, these works were only thirty years old or perhaps less. It is more likely that Hoskins had access to an earlier image of the kind from which the NPG image originated. A full-length portrait of Anne was owned by Lord Lumley in 1590 and existed as late as 1773.

Speculation aside, the Hoskins is important because it preserves what a highly talented seventeenth-century miniaturist made of the image, and though again further softened, it is the best depiction of Anne we are ever likely to have, failing the discovery of new material. Portrait medal — Chequers ring — Hever/NPG pattern — Hoskins miniature: the chain is complete. We have the real Anne Boleyn.

Eric Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn

#anne boleyn #anneboleynedit #historyedit #tudor #eric ives #my favorite Anne portrait by far is the Hoskins miniature #it's true that it's a little prettified but I think she looks like a real person in it #which tbh is not something tudor painters did super well (imo)#anyway just thought this was interesting (and I would love to see Ives take down the 'maybe the woman in Elizabeth's ring isn't Anne' thing #if he were still alive LOL)#I had forgotten that Ives says the Hoskins is the best we'll ever have and since it's my fave I smiled over that tbh

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dreky2x · 5 years

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Stayed down then it got better 💪🏽‼️ __________________ ———————— #real #pictorial #patron #cleveland #ohio #rapper #dreky2x #ots #gtg #b4l #utw #trapper https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt1TaO_gAKH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4h1rg2ctcpd8

#real #pictorial #patron #cleveland #ohio #rapper #dreky2x #ots #gtg #b4l #utw #trapper

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monengshits · 3 years

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WEEKEND GRIND

No day off 'to. Deretso grind!

September 25, 2021 - Saturday

Folk dance (Tiktok Style) shoot para sa mga SLS Teachers. Maaga kaming nagising ni Renz for breakfast at para ready since 8am start ng shoot.

4 areas ng SLS ang shinoot namin with different dances. Sa drone part and mini pictorial ako and then si Renz ang main videographer. Grabeng init! Pero okay naman kahit papa'no naha-handle ko si Drone. Very approachable sila and fun to be with. 'Di sila mahirap i-shoot dahil sila mismo nagsa-suggest ng gagawin. Pinakain pa nila kami ng lunch and umuwi kami saglit ng bahay para tumae si Renz. Hahaha. At para kumuha na rin ng gamit since sabi nila sasabak ng bundok.

Around 3pm yata kami nakarating sa Uddiawan area. So dumaan pa kami ng sementeryo to reach the area for hill top view. Ang ganda gandaaa! Super sarap tignan ng landscape view sa taas. Na-timingan kahit papa'no 'yung golden hour. Nagpunta pa kami ng ilog and palayan.

All in all, it was an exhausting yet super fun shoot! 6pm na kami natapos at umuwi. Sumakit ulo ko sa init kaya napainom ako ng meds. Medyo masakit din katawan dahil sa onting akyatan.

Last night while editing, nakaidlip ako while thinking ng ico-color grade ko sa mga photos. Sa sobrang pagod ko na rin kasi. Hahaha. Puyat din ako 'nung isang gabi at may babe time.

September 26, 2021 - Sunday

Nakabawi ako ng pahinga. Sarap!!

Breakfast again around 8:30 para prepared. Medyo late kaming nakarating at sinundo pa si Leo, 10:15am. Siya kasi assist namin for today's shoot. Pagkarating sa Balai Gloria e shoot kaagad for details. Sobrang init, lods!! Naka-polo't pantalon pa kaming lahat. Tagaktak pawis tuloy.

Nae-enjoy ko na gumamit ng flash at natututunan ko na. Hehe. Pero sa switching ng ISO and Shutter speed naga-adjust pa ako for the right timpla on different areas ng shoot ko.

Umabot na kami ng 12:30pm sa mga shoot namin na need namin. 'Di na kaagad nag-lunch dahil deretso kapilya na. Ako nag-drive ng wigo since si Renz pinag-drive ni Niko sa fortuner nila. Siempre bawal muna magsama ang ikakasal before wedding. So hiwalay ng sasakyan siempre.

Ayoko na magkwento dito ng eksena namin sa simbahan. Hahahaha! Mahirap na. But so far, the shoot went well! I have my good shots so does my ading and Leo's. Natutuwa ako kay Leo at kahit ganiyan siya e todo effort. Worth it kasama! Nakapag-drone din ako kahit papa'no.

2pm na kami yata natapos? Pinabalik kami sa Balai para makakain kami ng late lunch. Busog na busog kami. Bawing bawi sa pagod. Hahaha. Puro chikahan pa about anything while waiting. Then after kumain, may onting shoot pa kami with the bride and groom for details. Mga cake cutting ganern. Around 4pm it was all a wrap! Success ang event!

Bago umuwi, nag-drive thru muna kami para makabili ng merienda and coffee. Pahinga agad pagkadating sa bahay.

So that's how my weekend ends. Kaysa mag-OT ako ng walang bayad, tama lang na umattend ako sa mga rakets this weekend at kumita pa. Hehe. 'Di ba? So ayun lang. Editing naaa!

#mingsdailyjournal

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elevenlashes · 3 years

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maixmaixmaix · 6 years

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Shutanginang Huling Weekend ng January!

Shuta talaga! HAHAHAHA! Ganito kasi yan, nung Friday, nanlibre ang Berto at Migs dahil napromote na sila as AM. Manlilibre sila sa all4u u4all bayanihan of the people sa may Century Mall. Medyo late pa nga kami nakaalis kasi shuta ang mga trabaho namin. Hahaha. Wrong timing ang OT. Ang aga aga ko pa naman pumasok para maaga ako rin ako makaalis, pero nganga. Anyways, mga 7pm na yata kami nakapunta dun, pagdating namin ang haba pa ng pila. Shuta naman oh. Haha. Nagpalista pa rin naman kami tapos nagpunta ng Samgyupsalamat at chineck kung konti lang pila dun, pero mahaba pa rin. So balik ulit sa all4u. Napagdesisyunan na lang na maghintay na lang don. Okay lang magkakasama naman kami so kahit matagal maghintay, keri lang. Laban lang! Pero si bins, hindi na niya natiis. Charot. HAHAHA. 8pm yata siya umalis kasi may imple pa siya. Ganyan talaga mga kabatch ko, mga bagani ng BPI. HAHAHAHA! Dyusko day! 10pm na yata kami nakapasok, hindi ko na alam kung anong oras hahahaha. Basta matagal. Dun kasi sa uupuan naming table, ang tagal tagal umalis ng mga chuwariwap, eh hindi naman na sila kumakain at nagsosocial media na lang. Natatawa ako kila Ivan, hahahahah. Gusto na nila sugurin kasi nagugutom na kame. Hanggang sa natapos na sila. Nakapasok na kami sa loob. Unang 45mins, walang nagpapansinan sa amin kasi nga gutom na. HAHAHAHA! So, laban!

Ang saya po ano? Yung tipong hinihiniling mo na sana hindi tumakbo ang oras kasi shutangina ang saya! HAHAHAHA!

Pitmalo talaga mga ludi!

Teka, teka. Kailangan may Elevator Shots! HAHAHHAHAHA!

Pagkatapos mag kainan, syempre, inuman naman po ano. HAHAHAH. Rumekta na kami sa chopstop para magwalwal na naman. At leche, walang Smirnoff, buti na lang may Andy Player. Tapos since, minsan lang naman sumama ang Berto sa inuman, siya ang topic ng lahat ng usapan. HAHAHAHA.

At syempre po ano, ako po ang 7th wheel ano. HAHA! Carol + Rex. Ivan + Jacq, Sinbeh + Oneh. Eh di wow!

Tapos kila Ivan na naman ako natulog. Wew. Binuo lang talaga namin na lahat ng Fridays ng January, kami ang magkakasama. Hahahahaha! Dyusko. Umuwi ako sa bahay ng Sabado para lang maligo at kumuha ng damit, kasi dadayo naman kami kila Jacq sa Laguna para syempre mag-inom ulit. Hahahaha.

Nauna na sila saken sa Terminal ng Bus. Medj late ako kasi late na rin ako nakauwi. 9pm na yata ako dumating. Hahaha. Dyusko day! Pagod na pagod na ako ng araw na yan! Buti na lang mabilis lang ang biyahe papuntang Laguna. Pagkadating kila Jacq, inom inom na agad. At FYI, wala pong tama ang GSM Pomelo ano. So wag na kayo bumili ng ganon. Hahahahaha.

At may paportrait nga po pala ang pitmalo naming kaibigan ano!

Kinabukasan, medyo maaga nagising ang mga tao kasi sasamba sila ng 10am. Hahahaha. Naligo na ang sinbeh, tapos biglang sinabi na 3pm na lang daw sasamba. HAHAHAHA. Umasa besh. So, tumambay na lang muna sa kwarto hanggang nakita ko ang Video ni One at Sinbeh na naghahampasan ng unan. HAHAHAHAHAH. Tapos pucha! sobrang laughtrip nung GIF na nagawa ko from the vid. ETO OH!

SHUTA YAN! HAHAHAHHA! Mga halos 1 hour yata kami tawa ng tawa. Hahahaha. At habang tinatype ko to, tawa na naman ako ng tawa. HAHAHAHHAHAHA! Punyeta! Hanggang sa umalis na talaga sila. So tumambay lang muna kami ni One sa rooftop witha Kayumanggear Hammocks while soundtrippin' witha background of the ulan ulan.

Nung una, kape kape lang kami sa rooftop kasi ang sarap ng feels. Tapos biglang nagsimula nang magkwentuhan ng mga shit sa buhay. Nang biglang, "Tara, inom tayo. Bili tayo Empi sa baba." Ayun. Eh di bumili kami ni One ng Empi nang biglang nagtext sila Ivan na hindi raw sila nakasamba kasi ewan ko basta ganon. Hahahahaha. Pagkabalik nila, naka 3/4 na kami sa Empi. Dyusko! HAHAHHAHA!

Kwentuhan ulit. Nung una, si Jacq lang kakwentuhan namin ni One. Pinag-usapan namin kung paano sila nagka-emehan ni Bulilit. Hahaha! Tong baklang Jacq na to, kilig kilig naman. Hahaha! Pero first time ko kasi yata napakinggan yung kwento na sa side ni Jacq.

So ayun, hanggang sa dumating na si Ivan. Tapos pinag-uusapan kung paano nga ba kasi malalaman na nakamove-on na eme eme. Actually, hindi ko na maalala mga kinuda ni Ivan. Hahahaha! Pero basta ganon.

Hanggang sa sumunod na sila Kim at Sinbeh. Tapos inom inom at kwento kwento na ulit. HAHAHA!

Gusto ko talaga yung moment simula bumili kami ng empi hanggang sa may nagsuka eh. HAHAHAHAHA! Nyeta! Hindi ko maexplain kung bakit nagkwekwento na ko ng mga eme eme sa mga tao ngayon. Hahahaha. Dati, never have i ever akong nagkwekwento ng kahit na ano. Haha. So yun, may mga bagong bagay na naman akong nalaman. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Hanggang sa bumili ulit ng pangalawang Empi. Hanggang sa may nag-yayakapan na sa gilid, may nag-aminan na, may nagpapunta ng kaibigan na hindi niya maalalang pinapunta niya pala, may nag-iyakan, may nagsuka, may pictorial na yung photographer lang ang nakakaalala at ang huli, may nagpakape ulit. HAHAHAHAH.

At eto na nga ang papictorial/grouppic na hindi na namin maalala kung paano nagsimula at kung bakit pero basta mashaaaaaya!

#LoveWins pre!

SHUTA TALAGA! Ang sarap ng kape kila Jacq! HAHAHAH! Pero grabe talaga yung gabing yon. Hahaha! Daming ganap besh. Although may mga parts na na hindi ko maalalang naganap(unless may magpa-alala), solid pa rin. Hahahaha! Mga shuta kayo! HAHHAAHA! Ala una na yata kami natapos. Ilang beses pa akong nagtatanong kung may masasakyan pa ba pauwi kasi gabi na nga, at magBabaguio pa ako. Hahahaha! Buti na lang at gising pa si Abdul kaya nagpasundo na lang kami sakanya. Awwww! Grouphug!

At pagkauwi ko na naman ng bahay from Laguna, naligo lang ulit ako para naman mag Baguio for the shutanginang passport.

At gulong na naman po tayo ano? 3rd wheel besh! HAHAHA!

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Ang sarap sarap sa Baguio, parang gusto ko na talagang magmigrate don. Huhu. Ang dali lang kasi magprocess ng govt shits kasi malamig! HAHAHA! Hindi nakakairita. Medyo sad nga lang kasi kaya nga sa Baguio ako nagset ng appointment eh dahil sa shutanginang Salisbury Steak sa Ililikha, kaya lang nanganak si Ate, so closed sila. Sad. So, bumili na lang ako ng Bugnay Wine para sa walwalan ulit sa Manila! HAHA!

Hanggang sa nakauwi na kami ng bahay, SHUTA BESH! NAMISS KO YUNG KAMA KO! HUHUHUHUHU.

Tapos ngayon, eto na, balik na naman sa reyalidad. Solid tong weekend na to! HAHAHA! Feeling ko, 1 week akong nawala. HAHAHA! Eto talaga yung ayokong part after ng mga lakad eh. Nakaka #Sepanx besh. Nakakalungkot. Hahahaha! Tapos pilit mong inaalala ang mga ganap nung lumipas na weekend. Alalahanin lahat ng mga nakakatawang moments, tapos malulungkot ka na naman. Shuta. AHHAHAHA!

Hanggang sa susunod na shutanginang weekend!

#kwento #shuta #january 2018 #2018 #friends #bertud #ninja #pitmalo #love wins #sepanx #baguio #laguna #chopstop

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magicrugs · 4 years

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Rusty Red Pictorial 5X7 Tribal Oriental Rug | Magic Rugs Product code:OT-1550 https://www.magicrugs.com/rusty-red-pictorial-5x7-tribal-oriental-rug-ot-1550.html

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decaffeinatedlightluminary-blog · 7 years

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How humanity received Guidance from the God'?

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This world of Humans has come after a process of unification between facets of two primal creations: Jinns (created from fire) and Adam (created from clay). Hence, final Revelation in Qur’an is found to address both Jinns and Humans (Insaan). The journey of Humans proceeds on earth via clash and co-existence, rise and fall of different civilizations and syntheses and integrations of divaricated cultures? In this episode God has granted a period of freedom for civilizations to flourish with cherishes of various human choices, but alongside the ‘Tradition of God’ rests abidingly with Prophetic heritage so that every generation vis-à-vis willing individuals may have the access to God’s Message for mankind. In the newer world after Flood, God’s guidance came in recurrent cycles of Revelation in Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam. These are found to born incommunicado, un-noticed by the enthralled civilization; and the golden rules have become universal with lasting impact on the humanity. But we find that there are about 2,500 various to and fro religious beliefs in our day world – many of which defy the laws revealed by the God. As regard the appearance of such outspread religious differences, God has pointed in the final Revelation that: the wily men (guided by the evil) repeatedly distort the Prophetic teachings, while these interpolations and errors are rectified via repeated cycles of Revelations from God (Qur’an, 22:52); people do not readily accept the recent most Revelation from God out of deep superstition-like affinity to their earlier belief (Q, 38:6-8); and men get divided into factions by creating difference of opinion within themselves, and they are quite satisfied holding their individual opinions (Q, 23:54).

‘Those who split up their religion, and become mere Sects — each party rejoices in that which is with itself! (Q, 30: 32) ‘Leave them in their confused ignorance for a time’ (Q, 23:53-54).

We know from the final Revelation in Qur’an that: pre-humans (i.e. Jinns in Qur’an) also received guidance from the God; and after creation of Insaan (humankind) revealed knowledge came via line of patriarchal Prophets initiating from Adam, Seth and Idris. Eventually aberrant progenies of pre-Flood world were devastated by the catastrophic Flood. In post-Flood population, while diverse races of mankind were flourishing outwardly with respective civilizations – the Tradition of God remained inwardly restricted within Prophet Noah’s son Shem (Sam in Arabic) and his descendants; thus successive Revelations came to the Prophets chosen from within among this Semitic lineage.Early post-Flood Prophets are from ancient Arabs; and thereafter came Prophet Abraham – the patriarch of new world’s prophetic generation.

As we look back to the world immediately after Flood, Noah’s contemporary generation was plunged into polytheism and those pagan people considered Prophet as some evil possession of their silly pagan gods (Q, 11:53-54). The Qur’an informed about the ancient Arab Prophets (Q, 11): one is Hud belonging to the Arabian tribe of A’ ad, and the other is Salih of the tribe of Thamud – who were near descendants of Noah after the Flood. Amidst rampant paganism, deep down a reshaping of a newer world began especially after arrival of Prophet Abraham; and then religious authority was handed down through his descendants from Sarah, Hagar and Keturah (the three wives of Abraham). Prophets like Ishmael and Adnan (descendants of Hagar) came within the pre-existing Arab community formed by the ‘ancient’ and the ‘descendants of Keturah’). The Qur’an refers (Q, 11) to the sons of Keturah when it mentions Prophet Shu’eyb of Midian (identified with Jethro). If Shu’eyb is indeed Jethro, the Qur’an is explaining further the transfer of authority of the Scriptures to Israel through Moses and Aaron (descendants of Sarah); and the tribe of Midian was used for activating that process through Moses’ sojourn in Midian and the preparation for the Exodus. Both Surahs (Q, 10: 76 & 11: 96) inform that it is only after ancient pagans denied to obeying God and His Prophets like Hud, Salih and Shu’eyb – God transferred the authority on Moses and Aaron. At this point, Arabs were crossed between paganized Arabs and Christianized Arabs. Religious guidance for humankind that began with Adam, recycled in every age and stage of mankind through succession of innumerable Prophets – finally culminated in the Revelation to Prophet Muhammad in Arabic Qur’an. A very significant and intriguing mention has come in the Qur’an in particular speaking of the end times when Midian was again referred to (unto Midian We sent Shu’eyb, their brother) – before who were ‘removed from sight’ (Q, 11: 94-95).

‘And look forward to the Last Day, and do not evil, making mischief, in the earth.‘ (Q, 29:36).

Thus successive missions of the Abrahamic Prophets began to orient the newer world. Meanwhile from ancient pictorial mode the alphabetic languages were developing as well; and finally the Prophetic scriptures appear before us in the forms of OT from Moses, Zoroaster’s Gatha, NT after Jesus, and at last came the Qur’an revealed in Arabic to Muhammad. All these are called Abrahamic religions because they are inherently based upon ‘monotheistic principles’ revealed earlier to the patriarch Abraham. Their scriptures have common guidance to orient tradition in the direction of Abraham’s religion and for prayer facing towards the Ka’Ba of Abraham (but sectarian rivalry prevented them from arriving at a common platform). All of them are found to be revelatory, monotheistic, and Prophetic – and with same grounds of religion’s scared ethics, historical orientation, and isolated desert-origin. Thus from the chosen Prophets, humanity in every age has received ‘Holy name of God’ and inherently consonant religious messages that tell about Will of the Creator for His creations. Every new Revelation from God has a fulfilling function in relation to the previous one. Thus Judaism and Zoroastrianism are reformations to dwindling Noah’s religion – which was gradually corrupted by Sumero-Egyptian demigods and their closely affiliated proto-Aryans and the pagan factions within among Semites. Afterward came Christianity which is esoteric re-adaptation to decrepit Judaism; and then the Bible was again defiled by the Institutional hegemony of Council decisions. At the end, final Revelation for mankind came in Qur’an by exacting the misrepresentations of the un-named authors who wrote the Bible from age old oral tradition and not directly from the mouth of the Prophet (as it happened in Qur’an). Thus many ambiguities of Bible and other worn out scriptures become explicit and resolved after grasping the sense of exact revealed words from Qur’an. Tawhidic guidance in the Qur’an appears ‘in space’ as a polyvalent pattern embracing all the religions by retracing their essential positions; ‘in time’ it present itself by unifying what has been before it – implying the eternal continuity of God’s Guidance. The final Revelation for mankind came in Arabic when the languages of our new world gradually had assumed the definite alphabetic forms. Arabic preserves virtually all distinctive features of proto-Semitic – like inflection, systematic dual endings, and full consonantal distinctions which have generally been lost or merged in middle Semitic. Thus exegesis is not hampered by linguistic enigmas or obscurantism like that of other previous scriptures. In any other revealed scriptures, we cannot see complete language of Revelation by our own eyes. While the Qur’an with its each single revealed word has remained accessible to every willing eye vis-à-vis the enquiry of succeeding generations. Thus misrepresentations and wild speculations by ‘obscurantism of revealed truths’ so typical of the Jewish, Hindu, and other traditions – certainly are absent in the case of Qur’an. Archetypal ‘Words of God’ in the Qur’an are clearly attested by the self evident Divine authority of its supraliminal scriptural anthology, the Prophetic authenticity, and the universality of ‘revealed truths’ in its essential completeness.

The profound universality of last two revealed scriptures, the Bible and the Qur’an, could be fathomed by tracing out the cyclic homogeneity of eternal revealed principles – echoes of which are frequently heard amidst distorted pagan versions of the many ancient religions. Let us have a summarized view of the proceedings of successive revealed guidance that came in recurrent cycles of Abrahamic religions.

BIBLICAL REVELATIONS (of Old Testament) came in a post-Flood world when humanity not yet had attained the present state of anthropological homogeneity; various abnormal progenies (races of giants: Anakim, Rafaim, and Nephilim etc) belonging to pre-Adamite races used live by intermingling with the Adamic races. This ancient world was overwhelmed by the pagan enemies against ‘religion of God’; and God chose Semites (i.e. lineage of Noah’s son Shem) as the flag-bearers of God’s religion. Thus successive Semitic Prophets began to receive inspiration from God for removing anti-God paganism from the world. Hence early Biblical Revelations are found to address primarily to ‘the chosen people of God’ (the Semites like Hebrews and early Jews). Bible (from prolonged collection of ‘revealed knowledge’ in Tanakh [OT] and adaptations from Jesus in NT) provides guidance with respect to: (i) Creation in Six Days (in terms of God’s time); creations of mankind (that includes pre-Adamic races), then Adam and Eve in blissful Garden, and their fall from heavenly bliss after Satan seduces them. As a result two lines, the seeds of Satan (nachash) and the seeds of Eve have emerged and whom God has cursed to live by enmity with each other. (ii) how human race from Adam co-exist via miscegenation with pre-humans – producing consequently many generation of anti-God people in the out coming humanity; (iii) origin of the patriarchs of pre-Flood world and then post Flood generations from Noah with special emphasis on the Prophetic lineages of the Hebrews (from Heber) and the sons of Israel; (iv) how and when civilization begins and the language of mankind which was ‘one’ eventually becomes confounded into many tongues; (v) genealogy of diverse human races and geographical details of old and newer world; (vi) on going fights between good and evil i.e. detail narratives of successive Hebrew and Israeli Prophets and kings who fought for the cause of God and cleaned up the ancient world from adversaries of God (pagan demigods, giants, strangers and aliens etc) who overwhelmed this earth with the Paganism of false gods, and used to spoil daughters of humans by the charm of adornments, and established the hegemony of anti-God civilizations by their power of endless chariots and steeds of war and monuments of pagan idols; (vii) against all such odds, how God’s promise continues with Hebrews’ religious war against Paganism; (viii) then decay of Jewish pedigree when God’s hand was stretched out still; (ix) future prophesies regarding how God will intervene again to punish evil and feed the terrible oppressors with their own flesh and blood; (x) the last days of this world when God will redeem and re-establish with judgment – the righteous ones from among people of mixed generations on earth; and (xi) following the heels of Prophet how a blissful life on earth (golden age) shall begin in the humanity’s last age finally bringing an end to this present age of religious darkness.

ZOROASTRIAN GATHA meanwhile highlighted: (i) God’s religion with respect to newly emerged post-Flood generation descending from sage Kasyapa (Brahma’s descendant in Hinduism. Brahma has striking similarity with Abraham in Bible); (ii) a section called themselves as Aryans who were more affiliated to the Paganism and were being drifted more towards the pagan gods called daevas or devas. (iii) To stem this rot Prophet Zoroaster was raised from sage Kasyapa’s (Persian: Kashaf) lineage; who arrived with God’s Message in the name of Supreme God as Ahura (in Vedic tongue Asura). As a result, long religious conflict began between Avestan Persian and Vedic Aryan, whereby the old Aryan religion was separated simultaneously into Mazdaism by the followers of Supreme God, and Vedism by followers of devas (pagan gods). Eventually God believing Zoroastrians were mostly converted into Islam; this however, caused lapses in preservation of archaic Avestan literatures, and we became more dependent on Indic Vedas to know about the early Indo-Aryans. Tradition of Vedas exists now by exposing the Paganism of deva-centric Indo-Aryans in present Hinduism which virtually rejects Prophets and monotheistic principles of successive Abrahamic religions.

QUR’AN & HADITH: God’s Revelation to Prophets of humanity culminated in the Qur’an (6th century AD) – when the humankind finally attained more constancy in terms unification between pre-Adamic and Adamic races. Now the line of distinction between Adamic and pre-Adamic, or Semitic and non-Semitic etc have greatly been faded away. The prime distinguishable religious feature of present humanity remains to be the Believers (of God’s Revelation) and the Non-believers. Hence in Qur’an, Almighty God no more addresses to the Semites (as He did before in Biblical Revelations) but to all those ‘who submit to God’s Will’ i.e. Muslims (in Arabic). Irrespective of caste, creed and custom now anybody can know God’s Will by reading Qur’an, and chooses whether to follow God’s Path and becomes a Believer; or a self-willed path of religion and becomes virtually a Disbeliever of God’s final Revelation. The tradition of Qur’an (via immutable words of God (wahy matlu) to chosen Prophet of God, and received wisdom (wahy ghayr matlu in Hadith that came in response to Prophet’s prayer to God) exists as the most authentic ‘axes of revealed guidance’ conveying the conclusive Will of God in the final age of mankind. This final scripture enlightens the believers by revealing: (i) Six Days creation where every entity exists by submitting their ‘will’ to God – excepting the pre-human (named as Jinns) and the humans (named as Insaan); (ii) God created three different kinds of ‘beings having self-will’; firstly the Angels from light, then pre-human Jinns from fire, and at last humanity’s first Prophet Adam from clay and thereafter a new earthy and earthly race of Human (Insaan) at the end. Angels act only according to God’s Will, but Jinns and humans have been granted a period of freedom of conduct in this earth; (iii) how Satan origins from among the Jinn-kind to defy God’s Will for creation of earthy humans; how Satan spoils Adam’s generation, and God dispels them from blissful Garden and curses these spoiled generations to live on earth with enmity to each other. (iv) before casting Satan to hell-fire, God grants him a period of freedom till the Day of Judgement, and allows his Jinn tribe to share wealth and children with Adamites in order to judge between the races of humankind issuing from intermixing of Jinns and Adamites; (v) how the hands of Satan continue to mislead the people on earth; (vi) eradication of untoward generations by Flood, and then post-Flood Prophetic lineage originating from Noah’s lineage (highlighting their names); (vii) narratives of the righteous followers of Prophets and the fate of wrong doers of the bygone past; (viii) Divine Trial of mankind between the opposites of ‘good’ and ‘evil’; very purpose of living in this world and guidance about how to follow the straight path of God; (ix) second coming of Prophet Jesus in the final days before dissolution of this earth; (x) resurrection of each human soul, the Day of Judgment for reward and punishment in the Hereafter. And (xi) Hadith gives pertinent knowledge about how to orient one’s life according to the guidance of God; and the wisdom which Prophet received from God with respect to various pre-mental heavenly truths including questions on Hereafter and the blissful life in Paradise.

Divine Inspiration which had stopped after the death of Prophet Muhammad shall resume again at the time of descent (i.e. second coming) of Prophet Jesus who will rule according to Islamic Law during the last days of the world (see also Hadith no 425. vol. III – Al-Bukhari). Overwhelming all inflated ‘falsehoods’, again from the ‘spring of water of life’ (Kasava) shall appear miracle par excellence with Kausar i.e. which is ‘mine of truth’ and orient humanity towards the ‘Will of God’.

‘And Jesus shall be a Sign for the coming of the Hour of Judgment: therefore have no doubt about the Hour, but follow Me: this is a Straight Way.’ (Q, 43: 61)

We again come to know from the prophet Zephaniah about the state of religion at the time of re-establishment of Primordial Tradition (return of Krita age) by the Messiah (or Kalki Avatar): ‘For then will I (God) turn to the people a pure language that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one consent’ (Zeph. 9: iii). Vishnu Purana mentions about Kalki Avatar (4. 24): ‘He will then re-establish righteousness upon earth; and the minds of those who live at the end of Kali age shall be awakened, and shall be as pellucid as crystal. The men who are thus charged by virtue of that peculiar time shall be as the seeds of human beings, and shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of Krita age, the age of purity. As it is said, “when the sun and the moon, and the lunar asterism Tishya, and the planet Jupiter, are in one mansion, the Krita age shall return.’

REVELATION AND ITS AFTERMATH IN PRESENT AGE BEARERS OF THE SCRIPTURE

The Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (13 BH – AH 11 / 610-32 AD) in a world when Jews and Christians of Europe were living in a dark age with decrepit monotheism. Development of scientific reason i.e. burhan (proof based on evidence) had to wait Revelation and application of the Qur’an. God reveals to man only the ‘root ideas‘ – but the grasp of such vertical wisdom demands seeker’s constant striving for Truth by their horizontal mode of investigation. Hence in order to spur the believers’ penchant for Truth Qur’an guides: “read scripture (iqra)”, “see (yaraw)”, “travel (fa-siiruu)” and “observe (fa-anzuru)”. Within about hundred years (800 AD) early Muslims had traveled from Arabia to different parts of the world and kindled the novel ideas in science and learning; and they achieved world ‘intellectual supremacy’ which continued for about 500-600 years. They established educational centers and the Europeans learned much from these early Muslims. After Crusades the Christian Europe awoke and eventually turned out to be the leader of present materialistic civilization where the new role of Europe began to stand against Islam. Islam being the culminating epilogue of Prophetic religions before dissolution of earth – has begun to spread universally as the fastest growing religion on earth. Over 1400 years have past now since birth of Islam; but it is quite evident that present Muslims show clear signs of lapses and sit now just opposite to vitality of early Muslims’ sacred brilliance. And modern Christianity is no more heedful to God, instead is disposed to the paganized Christian brilliance. Thus the last two people of Book (Christians and Muslims) have sundered their Tawhidic religion by Takhsis (reductionism) and Tahrif (deviation); and both are drifting away from holistic Truth. Such spell of religious darkness within God’s tradition can not usurp unless Satan and his hands gain ascendancy in the very name of God, and are able to hoodwink believers by steering them from within.

CHRISTIANITY: Men without religion

ISLAM: Religion without men

It is a serious notice for any earnest believer of Islam, when above remark comes from Dr. Al-Hilali (Professor Islamic University, Medina) [1] who also points that: ‘a Muslim never lacks proofs about the purity and truthfulness of his religion, but what he lacks is the truthful brothers who stand for Allah testifying to the Truth’. Indeed, in this age, Islam is a religion without men who can appropriately utilize Qur’an’s rational-ethical holistic knowledge for the cause of true Islam. And Christianity is men without religion, yet by their endeavour, adventurous spirits, patience and worldly power they are able to falsify truth and make falsehoods appear true.

(i) ‘Obedience’ without ‘knowledge’ is Takhsis, and not Tawhid:

Believer’s ‘obedience‘ to God is lifeless unless there is constant ‘yearning for Truth‘. Dr. Husaini (p. 21) [2] pointed that: in recent centuries, by turning their backs on observable and knowable signs Muslims became like those ‘blinded people of civilization’ (qawmun ‘amin, Q, 7:64), deaf, dumb, and blind without any rational knowledge (Q, 2:171). Religious leadership has uphill task in orienting the ‘last scripture bearers’ especially because the Guidance of Qur’anic Revelation has twofold dimensions: ‘spiritual’ and ‘rational’. Qur’anic unitary or holistic (Tawhid) knowledge (‘ilm) has a ‘rational’ (‘aqaliyyah) part knowable by all human beings since God has made them accessible through ‘rational reasoning’. The other part of ‘ilm is value oriented or ideological; it is based on a tradition (any shari’ah) that may be a religion or a secular belief system. The integration or unification of these two parts is Tawhid (see Husaini, p. 33); and such integration demands profundity of holistic understanding both vertically and horizontally. Here any short cut or ‘reductionism’ is derogatory because seeker’s vision should not close within ‘words of the Book’, it must extend to view the polyvalent symbolism in Revelation (ta’wil), its aftermath in the human history in terms of linguistics, science, sociology and comparative religions etc. The Huffaz preserve Qur’an in memory, but role of Mufassir and teachers is to serve the cause of ‘ilm that God has made accessible through natural reason in order to remove the snags of spiritual awareness. Here every step demands precaution that ‘the word of God‘ is not manipulated to fulfill one’s self-will; personal interests have no room in Tafsîr (‘to make clear’). In this context, one must not confuse ‘sacred wisdom‘ with profane religiose flairs; the former arouses in believers theinnercalls of holistic Truth, but the later invest knowledge to attract and absorb lesser minds by the pulls of sentimental grounds. Unaware believers tend to count any brilliance as ‘gold’ that exalts in the very name of God and glitters by overly iterating the scripture. Inordinate inclinations for personality cult and bigot sectarianism lead to passive Shirk. Prophet Muhammad has said: “Shirk in Muslim nation is more inconspicuous than the creeping of the black ant on a black rock in the pitch darkness of the night” (Al-Bukhari, Introduction page. L, op.cit). History tells us how the many past traditions have been categorically atrophied by the crafty and solicitous masters who exalt at cost of wanting believers – without exacting the seeker’s sense of responsibility, commitment, and penchant for Truth.

In the state of decline, God commanded believers (in Surah Al-‘asr) to join together in mutual enjoining of Truth (tawaasaw bil-Haqqi) along with good deeds, patience and constancy (Q, 103:3). In search of religious vision, if the light of Qur’an, in stead of looking through the darkness, is turned back toward own eyes – it only leads to blindness. Divine Light (Missal) comes in essence not for the sake of shining a person or an Institution – but to show the path of Real and remove the snags of Unreal. The Tawhidic sense of the word ‘Muslim’ in Qur’an goes astray for those followers who revolve more around the ‘bigot sectarianism’ rather than evolving in terms of ‘purification of Soul‘ (see Q, 87: 14-15). If ritualism alone was enough to purify then God would not have warned the ardently ritualistic Jews (once chosen people) for their persistent wrong doings: ‘Your new moons and your appointed feasts My Soul hateth: they are a trouble unto Me….when ye make many prayers, I will not hear…’ (Isa, 1: 14-15)

As regard lapses of present Muslims, the most relevant words of wisdom came from Imam al-Ghazali – the greatest of the Islamic scholars of all times and one of the most influential intellectuals in the history of mankind – who profoundly influenced the Christian scholastics, but it was not so in the case of his succeeding Muslims. ‘Within forty years of his death (1111 AD), most of his books had been translated into Latin…His ideas were transmitted to generations of Europeans who studied them in new universities of Europe patterned on Muslim models; and this initiated the renaissance of Europe and the reformation of Christianity’ (Husaini, p. 35, op.cit). Imam al-Ghazali reminded about a thousand years ago that most of the Muslims are not holistic or Tawhidic Muslim; they are reductionist Muslim (Takhsisiyyun). They have restricted Qur’an and Islam to the “five pillars”, personal morality etc and excluded from them Islamic natural sciences, technology, and economics etc. Thus tradition gets categorically depleted of the vitality of ‘ilm. Every valid discipline, vocation, or science is an ‘ilm which has its origin in the Qur’an in a general or in a specific sense. The sciences which are knowable are based upon man’s natural reason (‘aql) and experience; and are called natural or rational (tabi‘iyyah,‘aqaliyyah) sciences. Hence God commanded (Q, 29:19) believers to ‘see’ ‘observe’ and ‘travel’; thus constant striving for knowledge and application of all discipline is an Islamic duty (Fard) and necessity. Dr. Husaini informs: ‘in his book (Kitab al-‘ilm, i.e. Book of knowledge) Imam Ghazali has pointed that reductionism (takhsis) is the one major cause that deviated (tahrif) Muslims from the true knowledge of Qur’an. For example, the word fiqh in Qur’an means understanding, a science, and any or all knowledge in the holistic sense. But fiqh was reduced to mean only Islamic law; and gradually Islamic fiqh or knowledge was confined to only Islamic personal law’.

‘Ulûm al-Qur’an‘ – the Sciences of the Qur’an, is not a new field of study; it began in the very lifetime of Prophet Muhammad which included all aspects related to understanding of the Qur’an. But the later Muslims excluded the duty of ‘holistic truth seeking’ and banked more upon a ritualistic platform; this may have helped them to expand, but only in horizontal sense and not in terms of vertical depth. Thus present Muslims so easily succumb to worldly pleasure and its glitters. Prophet Muhammad has narrated to his companion Sasban (R.A) in Hadith [3] that Muslims with the passage of time shall spread all over, and then they will suffer loss of spiritual vitality due to their leaning for worldly lust and fear for death. Another Hadith mentioned that they will gradually turn into the likes of decrepit Ummat of Jews and Christians. A time will come when Islam would be capsized as a pot is capsized with all its contents. Allah protects believers but does not spare them from being put on trial: “Verily in this are Signs and We put men to test” (Q, 23: 30). From guidance of Qur’an it is conceivable that to prevent such decline, tradition demands believer’s constant striving for Truth by shaking off the desires of worldly gains, pleasures, pomp and glitters that Allah has granted for temporal enjoyment of the ‘sinners’ rather than His true believers (see Q, 11: 15-16; 20: 131). Transcending the apparent lapses, Islam shall reign supreme again following the second wave of Muhammadis [4]. Present Scripture bearers have a call up lesson in the Qur’anic Revelation when it forewarns those spoiled people of the past Scripture bearers – who were abandoned because their wrong doings, yet they went on hoping for too long while their allotted terms had expired.

‘O ye who believe! if any from among you turn back from faith, soon will God produce a people whom He will love as they will love Him, (these people) humble towards believers, stern towards disbelievers, striving in the way of God, and fearing not the blame of any blamer. Such is the grace of God which He giveth unto whom He will.’ (Q, 5: 54); ‘because God will never change the Grace which He hath bestowed on a people until they change what is in their own souls: and verily God is He Who heareth and knoweth all things.’ (Q, 8: 53)

‘The likeness of those who are entrusted with the Law of Moses, yet apply it not, is as the likeness of the ass carrying books. Wretched is the likeness of folk who deny Revelations of God: and God guides not people who do wrong.’ (Q, 62: 5)

(ii) ‘Knowledge’ without ‘obedience’ is Takhsis, and not Tawhid:

Without obedience God never guides man; and in absence of obedience man’s yearning for Truth continues to wander in the vagueness until it turns lame. Defying Qur’an since 19th century Christian Scholars are especially trying to patronize ‘realm of theology’ exclusively within Bible. Judeo-Christian history revealed how these people of past scriptures had been categorically atrophied by the spells of many ‘master minds’ of the religion. At present there are signs of revivals within Christian world especially after realizing how the present Bible versions mislead Christianity from the implied senses of the original Hebrew words. In this effort of truth-seeking, if their cherishes of ‘self-will’ become more important than the ‘Will of God’ – then all their painstaking works will add another dimension to religious deviations via reductionism with which the early quasi-pagan usurpers of Christianity have already inflicted enough damage to their religion. As regard Christian revival, the question is: does God approve reductionism (takhsis) in exegesis (i.e. loud with Bible’s message by denying Qur’an or vice versa; in other word, heedful about ‘penultimate Revelation‘ but heedless about the ‘ultimate one‘!).Different orthodoxies like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam etc came form God because: whenever the religious vitality of a tradition depletes, God restores it again by creating a newer orthodoxy. After Judeo-Christianity drifted categorically from the sacred Oneness of God, the Qur’an came to restore the religion of God in a world different from that of the Biblical times – and it is the last Revelation before dissolution of the earth. Any effort to gravitate towards God demands attention to God’s final Message in Qur’an. Now if a section tries to find its ‘identity’ via mode of bigot reductionism – it only breaches the universal Oneness of God (Tawhid), rather than it reaches to Yah-El/Yahweh-Elohim/Allah.

References:

* See: Al-Ghazali, 1995. ‘Tahafut al-Filasafah‘ (Incoherence of the Philosophers).Trans. by

Sabih A. Kamali.

1. In introductory part of (p. liv) “The Translation of the Meanings of Sahih Al-Bukhari” Vol.I,

Trans. by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Islamic University, Madina Al-Munawwara, (Kitab

Bhavan, New Delhi)

2. Husaini, S Waqar Ahmed, 2005. The Qur’an for Astronomy and Earth Exploration from Space. (Goodward Press, New Delhi). Author (Ph.D, Engineering-Economic System Planning., Stanford Univ. California) is the Founder-President, Institute of Islamic Sciences, Technology & Development since 1986.

3. Abu – Daus, Miscat from Baihaki, Babe Tagyarunnas; Miscat of Allahma Kutubuddin Khan Dehlavi (R.A)

4. ‘Sabhatul marjan fi tariqi Hindustan‘,Chapt. I, Risala ma-arif, p. 88, 1975(Feb), Babu Kurbus Shah.

5. ‘The Holy Qur’an’ – with original ‘Arabic Text, English translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali. Islamic Book Service, India. 2000.

And also ‘The Meanings of the Glorious Qur’an‘ by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, trans., Mecca and New York: Muslim World League. 1977.

6. ‘The Holy Bible‘, Revised Standard Version (New York: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, 1946, 1971); Holy Bible, B & FBS, Printed in Great Britain by Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited His Majesty’s Printers, London.

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Mhh your space bois?

Space boys!!

⟡ despite being the same age difference as most of the others, Boötes seems older, and tends to act more like an older brother to Antares

⟡ Antares always wanted to be in the guard, he'd heard stories of their heroics from back during the war, and wanted to help protect others as well

⟡ Aurigae is a little bit more of a prankster than Stretch, and tends to get into trouble with the guard despite being a sentry himself

⟡ OS Sans (who still needs a nickname) is actually captain of the guard! He took on the role after their Alphys stepped down and (pretends to) take it very seriously!

⟡ Ara has his Grillby have a very will they won't they type of relationship that has most of the regular patrons making bets (both are aroace-spec and have no idea they give that vibe)

⟡ Pictoris is a very skilled embroiderer! It's not something he'd consider a hobby, since he mostly picked it up to customize his clothes to his liking, but he branches out more post pacifist and loves making all sorts of designs

⟡ Boötes doesn't float around like the other Sanses do, he prefers staying grounded for some reason...

⟡ Antares loves animals, but there aren't many in their sector, so whenever he scavenges and finds books or magazines or videos about them, he does his very best to preserve them

⟡ he may be the judge of his world, but Aurigae and their Toriel...don't really see eye to eye. They have a very tense relationship, though most don't pick up on it around them

⟡ OS Sans actually doesn't really enjoy cooking or baking, so he makes a lot of instant or pre-prepped stuff. His more original ventures...are not very good

⟡ Ara has...a particularly hard time visiting the labs. He still does, to help out Alphys from time to time, but given the option, he'd never set foot in there again

⟡ Pictoris will argue to his dying breath that his jokes aren't puns, they are incredibly witty word play, there's a difference! (<- pretends he doesn't have a sense of humor)

#outertale #outerswap #outerfell #the boys ✨✨✨#I like to really look into space names which is why it's taking so long to come up w/ a name for os sans lol #rainbowut #ty!!! ✨#sun spots #ot pictoris #ot ara #os aurigae #of antares #of boötes #clear sky sunset

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I’ve been thinking about ways to differentiate my outer boys from their standard counterparts since…there canonically aren’t really any differences personality wise?

Of course this largely involves changing the worlds a bit, since that has the greatest impact on a Papyrus’s characterization.

And I think I’ve decided on a few things for them

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Pictoris

Little bit of a neat freak. Cares a little more about his appearance (as far as seeming clean and neat comes across, though he isn’t exactly a stickler about it).

Floats/flies/uses gravity manip more often than Rus as it’s seen as more normal given. Space.

Tries (and mostly fails) to come across as more regal, more knightly than Rus. His priorities with getting into the guard are a little more focused on playing the part of a royal guard more, a little less on just using it for popularity (or so he says)

Loves the dogs truly but their fur gets *all* over his clothes and it kills him a little bit inside

Likes sweets a little less, a tiny (and I mean tiny) bit better at cooking

Still as sassy but sometimes does slip and comes across a little mean, usually reels it back quick but doesn’t apologize so much as changes the subject and tries to be more positive/nice

Overall, like Rus but if he was a little more uptight? Still very friendly and goofy though!!

Antares

A little more outwardly aggressive, bad attitude type, but conversely, quicker to lighten up and emote than Edge. Quicker to fluster, quicker to lose his temperature, but he maintains Edge’s hard-to-actually-make-mad quality.

One could say he’s kind of naive, takes things even more at face value than Edge (Boötes is the only one allowed to take advantage of this, otherwise you’re getting yourself in his black book if you mess with and genuinely embarrass Antares)

Less resigned, more uneasy, errs more on the paranoid side than Edge.

Values the quiet a lot. Doesn’t have as difficult a time with derealization as Edge.

Loves animals, loves them a *lot, loves learning about any living creature, even fictional!

Reads more too, a big fan of fantasy and adventure books (with a guilty pleasure of preferring the aforementioned two if they have daring romance in them as well).

Overall sort of if Edge was more emotive/expressive, and a little sillier (just a little).

Aurigae

Brattier and sassier than Stretch, but still a sweetheart all the same. He’d feel really bad if he genuinely hurt someone’s feelings, so he tends to click better with people who have a similar sense of humor.

Conversely also has a harder time with anxiety. Hides it just as well, but generally experiences more panic attacks (in secret) than Stretch.

Way more sensory inclined. Doesn’t like being touched, by anyone in anyway unless he’s very familiar/comfortable with them, and usually has something to fidget/stim with in his pockets (which I plan on adding more to the design, his jacket should have more pockets). Also floats/flies/etc more often, as this is also a good way to avoid unwanted contact.

Vapes instead of smokes but still does it super rarely.

Distraction is important, he works better if he has music or something else making sound, even if very quietly, nearby. Otherwise he’s probably sleeping because the quiet agitates his nerves.

A little more intense than Stretch, but comes across more social confident, would still prefer hanging out at home or with a couple of close friends.

Their personalities are still works in progress, so they may change over time as I figure them/their AUs out better, but I feel like this is a good starting point!

#outertale papyrus #outerfell papyrus #outerswap papyrus #ot pictoris #of antares #os aurigae #outertale #outerfell #outerswap #sun spots #papyrus

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capricioussun · 1 year

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@jnpie : here's a question: how easy is it for them to catch feelings?? 😳 thinking particularly of papyrus and ht papyrus....

I’m a pretty big fan of demi-ro Papyrus hcs, but that he’s also a romantic at the same time! So I imagine this manifesting as getting crushes really easily, sort of wanting to have a crush on someone, liking the idea of being in a relationship, but in reality, gets cold feet really quick when actually faced with flirting/being asked out/asking someone else out/etc. On one hand, this means he catches feelings incredibly easy when it comes to crushes, but real feelings, actually feeling comfortable with pursuing more, would probably take some time to work up to. It would be best for him to develop a solid friendship with them first, and see where things go from there!

With HT Papyrus though… I would imagine he’d have a much harder time developing any feelings regardless, since I usually hc he becomes a little reclusive on the surface. After a recovery period, once he’d feel…a little more alright with being around humans, he’d probably like to go out and just walk around, be out and enjoying the scenery, but spending time actually interacting with others, regardless of if they’re monster or human, would be limited to brief interactions. I believe he’d still be a romantic, might even wind up amassing a slight collection of romance novels and movies to indulge in, but I think it’d take a lot of time and seeing someone/interacting with them routinely for him to warm up to even just true friendship! Love the idea of him slowly developing a really solid friendship with someone and then one day he’s just like, in the middle of doing dishes or something, daydreaming, when they just sort of pop into the daydream, probably just doing something normal, but they smile at him and he feels all warm and fuzzy, his soul fluttering- and then he just stops dead, having a total ‘oh no’ moment, completely flustered agdhahjsjddj

also: how does everyone feel about Valentine's candy? (doesn't have to be everyone, could be anyone, I just thought it was a fun question 😄) (the rest below the cut!)

It is!! It’s a super cute question, I’ll answer it a little weirdly so I can rope in as many boys as possible agsjajjdj

Indifferent but probably appreciative of the gesture: Sans (UT), Ghost (FS), Eclipse (HF), Boss (MF), Ara (OT), Ice (IF), Heartfell Sans (nickname pending), Rosewood (MLF)

Doesn’t really like any candy, would be judgmental about receiving it: Haze (FS), Snare (MF), Raviel (DF), Pin (IF), Hemlock (MLF)

Doesn’t really like any candy, but would find receiving it…~sweet~ (lol): Edge (UF), Dusk (HF), AR (MT), Cue (MS), Cire (LF), Pictoris (OT)

Thinks it’s “stupid” but would (probably secretly) love getting it from someone: Red (UF), Gold (SF), Patch (HT), Rust (HS), Hawk (MT), Elester (DF), Antares (OF), Boötes (OF), Heartfell Papyrus (nickname pending)

Thinks it’s cute and would openly love getting it from someone: Blue (US), Copper (SF), Dove (HT), Luck (MS), Lace (LF), Abstract (???)

Loves it and buys it for others or themself: Rus (UT), Stretch (US), Coal (HS), Berry (SS), Clover (SS)

#ty for the super cute questions!!! i hope these answers suffice ✨💕🌟#jnpie #ut Rus #ht dove #Undertale papyrus #horrortale papyrus #i am not tagging everyone else since they’re mostly just briefly mentioned agsjsjajd #clear sky sunset #(sort of)#vawentines

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capricioussun · 2 years

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a question for the boys AND you

between pancakes, french toast, and waffles, which do you like best? And what is your favorite toppings? (i may or may not have just made myself some french toast so this is a very relevant question)

You didn’t clarify who so now I have to do everyone how could you do this to me

Sans - pancakes, absolutely. Ketchup and maple syrup because there’s something so, so wrong with him

Papyrus - waffles! With strawberry sauce and whipped cream! =<]

✨

Blue (US Sans) - Waffles, hands down! Loves mixed berry syrup and maybe, maybe mini marshmallows if he’s feeling indulgent

Stretch (US Papyrus) - French toast, because he loves to drown it in maple syrup and honey and powdered sugar with cinnamon mixed in (it’s a good thing monsters teeth can’t rot lol). Will also put ice cream on it if it’s dessert and not breakfast.

💫

Red (UF Sans) - Waffles, no toppings, but he’ll tolerate a little melted butter and powdered sugar (read: prefers it this way but struggles to allow himself to Enjoy Things)

Edge (UF Papyrus) - specifically blueberry pancakes, with a little cinnamon and cloves mixed into the batter, but no toppings except maybe a little maple syrup

💖

Gold (SFM Sans) - French toast, but he prefers it The Fancy Way where you cook sugar on it to give it a crispy crème brûlée style top (bc he’s pretentious /lh), and maybe a little vanilla ice cream…

Copper (SFM Papyrus) - Pancakes that’s are completely unrecognizable with how much stuff is mixed into the batter and then topped with it. Think the spaghetti scene in Elf, but pancakes, and that’s how Copper likes it.

🌟

Haze (FSG Sans) - Waffles, blackberry or mulberry syrup, nothing else.

Ghost (FSG Papyrus) - also waffles, any syrup, doesn’t matter, but it has to be swimming in it. Will also put sriracha on it sometimes.

🌘

Patch (HT Sans) - Waffles, with a lot of butter and maple syrup or honey.

Dove (HT Papyrus) - French toast! But prepared very simply and with only a very light dusting of powdered sugar

⚡️

Coal (HS Sans) - Waffles with whipped cream and fresh fruit and sprinkles! He especially loves the little star shaped sprinkles =<]

Rust (HS Papyrus) - Pancakes, with a ton of honey, but nothing else…

☀️

Eclipse (HF Sans) - Pancakes, but he prefers to have them with savory food, too, so no sweet toppings, except maybe a little maple syrup.

Dusk (HF Papyrus) - also pancakes, just with some fresh fruit (he would never admit it but he loves chocolate chip pancakes best)

🌙

AR (MT Sans) - Waffles, with butter and maple syrup. Classic.

Hawk (MT Papyrus) - French toast, easily! But specifically only when he makes it, and he serves it with fresh peach slices and homemade whipped cream.

✨

Cue (MS Sans) - Waffles, prefers fruit in the batter to any fruit syrups, but a little maple syrup is always nice. Would probably have it with a cocktail

Luck (MS Papyrus) - French toast prepared crème brûlée style also, but he’d still probably add more syrup afterwards…

🌗

Snare (MF Sans) - Waffles with maple syrup, with savory food similar to Clips

Boss (MF Papyrus) - Crêpes, because he doesn’t like heavy bready foods, especially not first thing in the morning -eyeroll- (prefers fruit crêpes, powdered sugar topping is…tolerable (he doesn’t really like sweets…))

🌟

Ara (OT Sans) - Pancakes, with fruit and honey and ketchup. He’s pretty much as bad as regular Sans.

Pictoris (OT Papyrus) - Waffles, but with blueberry syrup and whipped cream! =<]

💖

Boötes (OF Sans) - Waffles, with cinnamon sugar and nothing else

Antares (OF Papyrus) - Pancakes, with any berry syrup or fruit in the batter! (And whipped cream, which he would never ever admit out loud)

💛

Cire (LF Sans) - Waffles, of any citrus variety, with lots of whipped cream

Lace (LF Papyrus) - Pancakes with a little maple syrup if he has (good!) coffee to dip them in, but otherwise French toast with honey =<]

🌔

Hemlock (MLF Sans) - Waffles, any fruit syrup as long as it’s bathed in it.

Rosewood (MLF Papyrus) - maybe French toast, similarly to Boss, he leans into preferring lighter stuff like crêpes usually, but anything fruit involved is always a nice addition.

☀️

Berry (SS Sans) - Waffles with fruit in the batter, and lots of whipped cream! A little sprinkle of powdered sugar wouldn’t hurt, either.

Clover (SS Papyrus) - French toast, but drowned in anything sweet. Honey, maple syrup, fruit syrups, sprinkles, powdered sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon sugar, whipped cream, dessert syrups, chocolate chips, caramel. Anything you can think of he’d throw it in there, the worst of the swap Papyri as far as sweets go, but he might also throw in some cayenne powder for a little kick.

💫

Raviel (DF Sans) - Waffles, topping, more waffles. And lots of syrup, any kind, so long as it doesn’t have bits of stuff in it (like fruit. He prefers that cheap weird stuff they put on ice cream that’s mostly just corn syrup and food dye).

Elester (DF Papyrus) - pancakes, with literally anything, but a drizzle of melted dark chocolate is very nice…

⭐️

Pin (IF Sans) - No outward seeming preference, but he does like spicy things and candy, so probably pancakes with spices and granulated sugar.

Ice (IF Papyrus) - no preference. Food is food. (Has a soft spot for fresh fruit though)

🌑

Perp (VF Sans) - Similar to Red, but he’s more well adjusted and loves to partake in buttery, sugary waffles. Especially loves the “snickerdoodle” waffles Void makes for him and Frisk

Void (VF Papyrus) - French toast with fresh fruit and a light drizzle of honey. He’s a classy guy.

🌙

Bonus: Abstract! - Anything is good and nice, but he does have a soft spot for sweets, so any three presented options with a little maple syrup or honey or fruit would make him very happy =<]

As for me, idk. Maybe French toast? But I have a soft spot for pancakes with fruit in them… I hope your French toast was very nice =^)

#this got so long…#thewanderersrespite #clear sky sunset #I am…not tagging everyone #I don’t think I even have the space to tbh #sun spots #thank you for the ask but how could you do this to me /j #it’s also not everyone bc I didn’t add boys I don’t have nicknames for yet sorry heartfell and orange fell boys ✌️😔#and neonfell oof #evaporates

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capricioussun · 2 years

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D1 with outertale papyrus? :3