Sufi Stickers

This is a design from Studio Grafiikka’s collection of literary posters featuring quotes by Jalaluddin Rumi, the poet, scholar and sufi mystic . Designed in a unique style, this series has quotes and musings on love, life, nature, beauty and spiritual wisdom. As prints and posters, these could be ideal gifts for book lovers and poetry lovers and a beautiful wall decor element in your living room, library, office or study room.

Waw The letter waw is copula and a mark for the voice in the Arabic language, symbolizing the connection of God and man. The composition is not incidentally made in a circular form, it is there to symbolize the ritual of dhikr, to remind one of the infinite repetition and the circular movement and rhythm of composition are an association to the ritual’s choreography, right to left, like a cosmic movement. This visual dhikr, which, upon seeing calligraphy, prevents one from oblivion and brings him back to the state of consciousness, is a symbolism of the movement of the cosmos and the planets, because, according to Sufi teaching, everything is in movement. In art, Muslims “developed a great love for the waw and used it from about 1700...

This is a design from Studio Grafiikka’s collection of literary posters featuring quotes by Jalaluddin Rumi, the poet, scholar and sufi mystic . Designed in a unique style, this series has quotes and musings on love, life, nature, beauty and spiritual wisdom. As prints and posters, these could be ideal gifts for book lovers and poetry lovers and a beautiful wall decor element in your living room, library, office or study room.

Waw The letter waw is copula and a mark for the voice in the Arabic language, symbolizing the connection of God and man. The composition is not incidentally made in a circular form, it is there to symbolize the ritual of dhikr, to remind one of the infinite repetition and the circular movement and rhythm of composition are an association to the ritual’s choreography, right to left, like a cosmic movement. This visual dhikr, which, upon seeing calligraphy, prevents one from oblivion and brings him back to the state of consciousness, is a symbolism of the movement of the cosmos and the planets, because, according to Sufi teaching, everything is in movement. In art, Muslims “developed a great love for the waw and used it from about 1700...

“Love is my Faith and Religion. Whatever way Love's caravan take, that is my religion and my faith.” - Ibn-Arabi (A 12th-century Arab Andalusian Scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher) The spiritual aesthetic of the poem was created by combining traditional Thuluth calligraphy with some Islamic miniature designs set against the silhouette of a cityscape. www.silkminds.com

“Love is my Faith and Religion. Whatever way Love's caravan take, that is my religion and my faith.” - Ibn-Arabi (A 12th-century Arab Andalusian Scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher) The spiritual aesthetic of the poem was created by combining traditional Thuluth calligraphy with some Islamic miniature designs set against the silhouette of a cityscape. www.silkminds.com

Year 2021

"What You Seek is Seeking You" - Rumi

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“Yesterday the wisest man/ holding a lit lantern in daylight/ was searching around town saying/ I am tired of/ all these beasts and brutes. I seek a true human.” - Rumi (A 13th-century Persian poet, scholar, and Sufi mystic); Translated by Nader Khalili This design sets bright Nastaliq Persian calligraphy and Persian miniatures against the silhouette of a cityscape.

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