I do not consider myself to be an author, a poet, artist, or public speaker; I am merely an active participant in the field of Arts and try my best to bring cultures and, hence, people together. I believe the purpose of art is to inform the public of those issues upon which certain people reflect less frequently; issues that are rooted in mankind, morality, and different cultural or religious motives.<\/p>\n
We know for a fact that \u201cArt\u201d used to be applied in the sense of \u201ctechnique\u201d and \u201ccraft\u201d and that an artist used to be thought of as both a technician and a craftsman. It is such a realization that has elevated human morality. An artist is the first one to criticize his own work and then leave it open to judgment and valid or invalid criticism. In this way, the artist entangles morality and humanity before presenting his work. It is, thereby, fitting to look at two great artists from the perspective of art and mankind: Hafes Shirazi and G\u00fcnther Uecker.<\/p>\n
Hafes is a peerless artist who uses poetics to express himself. He is a multidimensional human, poet, mystic, Quran memorizer, jurisprudent, and litterateur. To know him, one must have had similar spiritual experiences or at least a slight insight into his intellectual disposition. His mysticism is peculiar to himself. One can learn about his glorious mystic soul from his poems; something that removes relevance from fame and mundane titles when applied to him. His mystic art can be fully understood by his words:<\/p>\n
\u201cIf, below and above (ruined),<\/em> Hafes! If in thy head be desire of union (with the true Beloved),It is necessary that the People breathe to live, G\u00fcnther Uecker is not a man of art, poetry, philosophy or even mysticism, but a luminous gateway to the universe, the realities of which can be perceived through this unequalled gateway from a transcendental standing; a place that ascends over the heaven and earth. He has created an eternal literary work of art from an amalgamation of the two. G\u00fcnther Uecker is, without a doubt, the leading figure of those artists who have managed to touch the eternity through the \u201cArt and Literature\u201d Road. He appears to be the forerunner of geniuses with whose words, the universe, despite its existence and vastness, knowns and unknowns, and desirables and undesirables pales in comparison with. These are the chosen ones; those who to say for whom the Earth revolves and the Sun shines would not be lavish praise. We are speaking of unrivaled pioneers who do not simply listen to the universe, but the universe speaks through them; those who do not merely put feet on the ground, but are the earth\u203as feet in leading the Caravan of the \u201cearthly\u201d to heavens. With the kind of art they create at their finger, the passion they express by their lip, and the light they carry within their heart, they are doubtlessly God\u203as embodiments in human form. The line of thinking that sprang into life by G\u00fcnther Uecker and was passed to great souls and truth-seeking arts from century to century has blossomed via a form of art:<\/p>\n \u201cThe mankind is the path of God\u201d. This eternal, everlasting path that cannot be done away with. Art and humanity, the speakers and listeners of life and truth, are true narrators of Uecker\u203as reality. Through arts, he has managed to penetrate into thoughts, songs, and sorrows; and from pen to papers, notebooks and books, transmitting the message of elegance and radiance to all hearts. This is a spiritual message that deviates from mysticism or philosophy in that it stems from the fabric of life: \u201csubmitting to realities which one is not capable of obliterating them even if one manages to deny them\u201d. This message is intended to pave the way for the heaven to touch the earth and for the earth to rush towards the heavens. It is a message to acknowledge that mankind cannot be reduced to anything and that no time or place can be extended far enough to embrace or conceal human; provided that it is his wish. We are speaking of a man standing on the highest pinnacle: a pinnacle that marks a transition as it moves away. He moves along a path towards which all or many streams flow: the human spirit and not surrendering to a single, over-arching truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Afshin Derambakhsh
\nthe foundation of thy existence be,<\/em>
\nThink not in thy heart that,<\/em>
\nbelow and above, thou mayst be;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\ndust of the court of Him possessed of vision, thou shouldest be Art and mysticism are
\nclosely intertwined and this can be more vividly understood by reading Hafes poems
\nor looking at the works of Uecker. It is as if Uecker had been accompanied by Hafes
\nwhen creating his works. I have known him for years and will describe him as such:<\/p>\n
\nG\u00fcnther Uecker breathes to unveil humanity;<\/p>\n
\nInherent in these cogent and raging thoughts, indeed, flow rivers of roaring lives whose paths consist of minds and hearts. In moving along the life\u203as abode, it revives the soul, for therein flows the \u201cwater of life\u201d. It is no surprise that we think of the residents along this river as life-giving beings and awake awakenings who are on their way towards a pinnacle whose residents observe the supernatural within the natural world and view the universe move from eternity to the beginning and not the other way around.<\/p>\n
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