Leonardo Da vinci

"And those men who are inventors and interpreters between nature and man, as compared with boasters and declaimers of the works of others, must be regarded and not otherwised esteemed than as the object infront of the mirror, when compared with its image when seen in the mirror. For the first is soemthing in itself, and the other nothingness -- Folks little indebted to nature, since it is only by chance that they were the human form and without it I might class them with the herd of beasts" -- Leonardo Da Vinci.

Leonardo Da vinci was one of the most famous painters of the Italian Renaissance, he was a scientist, inventor, mathematician, architect, engineer and philosopher as well as being a great artist. His ideas were never published, and only a small handful of his paitings were left behind after his death. He was the illegitimate son of a 25-year-old notary, Ser Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, and was born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, just outside Florence.

"Leonardo da Vinci was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep" Sigmund Freud

The virgin/Madonna of the rocks

The last supper

Lady with the Ermine

Monalisa whats that secret smile?

Dream

Murata and Chittick write:"There is nothing evil about clay. It is a good substance for makign pots (if you are a potter) or bodily things (if you are a god). Clay has its drawbacks. It is dark and dense, so when you pour liquid light into the pot, the light is hidden, and some people might imagine the pot is empty. But without pots you would have no containers for the light. Clay is not devious and deceptive, it is simply dull".

Dont complain..
There's no one to blame..

Objectiveness and Subjectiveness

Ibn Hazam, Al-Juwaini, and Fakhr Al-Din Razi were theologians who argued that islamic texts needed strict interpretation and any form of analogical thoughts or philosophical ones were anything but objective when it came to the issue of text interpretation. They were a form of literalists, who took each line of text to mean exactly what it said, because there should not have been any hidden messages in an open message, and so for all to be able to understand the divine message, this form of interpretation should be the one to go about. Any deep analogical thoughts on texts based on deep thinking were rejected.Most theologians were Ash'ariyya (Ash'ariyya is the foremost theological school of thought in sunni islam, they believe that reason must be subordinate to revelation, the other theological school is Mu'tazila whos members argue that it is necessary to give a rationally coherant account of islamic beliefs, their ideas were based on five main principles: Monotheisim/Tawheed, Justice/'Adl, Promise & Threat/ Al-Wa'd Wal Wa'eed, The position between the two extremes/ Al-Manzila bayn Al-Manzilatayn and finally enjoining good and forbidding evil/ Al-Amur Bil ma3ruf and Al-Nahi 'an il Munkar. For more info read here.) being Ash'ariyya meant that these theologians rejected the idea that ethical and religious ideas could be objectively true, their arguement was that something is true because God says its true and there is no arguement about that.This particular idea is seen in Islamic ethics, were a particular influence over rulings came into form, an arguement between objectiveness and subjectiveness forming, where some arguably reasoned that a particular action was just/correct/right If and only If God has said it is while others felt it was obligatory to question and think about each and every matter without submitting (negating the whole concept of submission in islam).Ibn Mishkawya and Al-Tusi have written accounts about the two conflicts (If someone knows a link to these accounts please could they paste them). The question here is that, should religious ideas be taken objectvely or subjectively? and if so how about them? Are the modern ethically correct ideologies the way they should be?

Nobody can hear me

Nobody can hear me..
They cant hear my cries..
Nobody can see me..
They cant see through my lies..
Nobody can feel me..
They cant trace my heart..
Nobody can touch me..
They cant get to me for a start..

I live in a world in which I live all alone..
A world where I fight for my every bone..
I grip with my jaws the flesh of my life..
And I slash with my words as sharp as a knife..
I tackle those who think they know me well..
I let them live in their thoughts where they dwell..

They think that their laughter will last verey long..
They do not know the tactics of the strong..
Be ready with your soul and your mind..
Defeat those who unto you are unkind..
Move away from the absurdities of the norm..
In your own solitude you must conform..

Nobody can hear me..
They cant hear my cries..
Nobody can see me..
They cant see through my lies..
Nobody can feel me..
They cant trace my heart..
Nobody can touch me..
They cant get to me for a start..

Gallop through the wind

I live the end of my teens

In a few months my time as a teenager will be over, and I will take away with me a sack of memories, living this period now, I feel that a young girl has now emerged to be a hopeful young lady with new ideas to explore, and feelings to adapt to. Having tied the knot already I feel that my life is nearly complete, and soon I will be able to settle with a new family of my own, of which I will be able to lead it, and be a head of it, as well as the other head with me.

It is in nearly every girls heart, to one day wake up and feel that she is going to be a mother, that feeling is still yet to come, yet it is etched inside me, and it begins to dwell silently in my head, where it will arise one day to its top and my motherly instincts will be able to lay their practice on a new generation, of which I will be responsible for.

The most difficult part of life that I have faced was probably the last few years of my teenage years, in which I struggled hard to find myself, although getting to know yourself is an endless task and something not easily achieved, for some it may even be a never ending journey, however for me it has been the start of my journey to something better still. I found the most complex task of all was trying to live your youth at the same time as growing up into someone people would take seriously, into an adult, and not a child.

You will have no doubt found that some are not willing to accept the fact that you have reached your adulthood to a preliminary degree, and may be-little you, which in turn shakes your small world, because you have worked hard to construct it in your heart. Two valuable lessons I learnt and took away with me from this period, were to firstly totally ignore what people think and say about you (the negative aspects that is) and secondly to let go of any negative feelings you may have towards people due to what they may have said or done. In more simple terms not to be so sensitive.

If one was to dwell upon the opinion of others too much, he/she will find tht they will never progress in their lives, because peoples opinions will always differ, and people often prefer to put in a mean word as oppose to a kind one. Being sensitive too is another bad thing, because you end up in a whirl pool of negative emotions, which lead you to be so pessimistic and so fed up with life, that you never see the light at the end of the tunnel.

It may be a difficult task to hold on to your life while others try to bring it down, yet if you make a solemn promise to yourself that you will live by love, and let love find a way, then Love will find a way. There is no doubt about that. A loving heart will never go astray, because it will always cling to the moral attitude of life. That way you can never be unjust towards people. As one of the Imams says: Justice is half way to piety.

I leave you with my love.