A Multi-Dimensional Projector
Faith is not a simple journey, and even when grasped— remains hard to contain and withhold. To believe is not an arbitrary decision, and is not a fantasy one could dream of or wish upon. The existence of a greater being is a major condition in one’s own self-awareness of existential state. So, a believer or disbeliever, the question lingers on and “suddenly we feel the earth begin to shake under our feet”. Even the greater of believers asks for a token of Almighty existence; when Prophet Ibrahim peace be upon him asked of Allah to: “show me how You give life to the dead”, of which Allah -and he is the omniscient- argues: “Have you not believed?” only to appreciate the demand of such a question: “Yes, but [I ask] only that my heart may be satisfied.” (Quran 2:260)
In A Multi-Dimensional Projector, I challenge the existential framework of realizing condition, alienation and then transformation— the three phases of a man self-awareness of existential state. That is so, by— one— symbolizing the actions taken by a single man: to move horizontally and/or vertically in the transitions of elevators and trains through stations/levels. The act of moving through these two axes is what the Morrocan Philosopher Taha Abdulrahman calls the journey of Isra’a and Mira’j of the ordinary man to exceed in his life: to reach The Last guided by The First (the two sacred names of Allah). Secondly, to introduce the argument of intelligent design with the question “What then is the real purpose of their creation?”; although a controversial argument, it stands firm against its oppositionists. The last symbol we see is the Projector, the human consciousness: to project the given knowledge of Almighty existence (الفطرة). and is Multi-dimensional because it supposed to be moving in these two dimensions.
These three symbols are composed deliberately to create the suspense of the argument of existential main condition: God’s existence, which is simpler to answer than to withhold as have been above-mentioned. Yet, the process of creating A Multi-Dimensional Projector was arbitrary in approach, because the condition is already rooted; the recognition of alienation happens when this condition is disturbed, which is only an exceptional state; this leaves transformation merely a progress (or not), that is to move or sit still. All in all, what are the odds to create a well-structured framework arbitrarily?