Since the dawn of civilization, faith and sense of life have always inspired the human kind around the world to bring out creativity and innovations. By virtue of extraordinary effort, some arts and culture have been immortalized throughout the ages. For instance, a new history is going to be made by creating the largest Holy Quran on earth. The over-the-top project has already started with a big team based in Karachi in Pakistan. Let’s get to learn about the details of this wonderful handicraft.
The project of the gold-encrusted world’s largest Holy Quran
Quran is the prime religious text of Islam, the world’s second-largest religion. The religion has more than 1.9 billion followers covering about 24.9 percent of the world’s total population known as Muslims. It is believed by Muslims that the Holy Quran is the revelation from Allah (God). This religious scripture is also honored as the finest work in classical Arabic literature. For centuries, the worshipers have crafted the holy Quran in diverse sizes and forms using versatile materials.
In this legacy, Shahid Rassam, a renowned Pakistani sculptor and painter, has taken up the task of creating the world’s largest holy Quran. Another specialty of this project is that the letters of the Holy Quran will be made of gold on a high-quality aluminum canvas. About two thousand kg of aluminum will be used for five-hundred-and-fifty pages and about 200 kg gold for eighty thousand characters. One-hundred-and-fifty letters will be placed on each page of this huge Holy Quran, which is 6.5 feet long and 8.5 feet wide excluding the frame.
Shahid Rassam’s team has been working for five years to complete this great handicraft work by 2025. Shahid Rassam is bearing the cost of the entire project. However, his friends are also helping him to accomplish this great task.
This is the first time in the history of Islam, more than 1400 years old, that such a huge gold-encrusted Holy Quran is going to be built.
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Craftsmen of the world’s biggest holy Quran adorned with gold
The patrons of arts and paintings are providing immense confidence to the artist team of Shahid Rassam. This magnificent work has been widely acclaimed by different countries around the world including the United Kingdom, Canada, France, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Italy, India and Pakistan.
A team of 200 people is working with him on this project. All of them are skilled craftsmen trained by Shahid Rassam himself. Shahid Rassam had earlier written 99 names of Allah coated in aluminum and gold. He was awarded the Artist of the Year (2000) at Al Ain University in the United Arab Emirates.
Exhibition of the largest Holy Quran on Earth
Expo 2020 Dubai, an International Exhibition, has been started under the host of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It will begin on October 1, 2021, and continue till March 31, 2022.
Shahid Rassam will be exhibiting Surah Ar-Raman of the Holy Quran at Expo 2020 Dubai as a representation of the World’s largest Holy Quran. He intended to show the project from the Pakistan Pavilion of Expo. But so far the venue of the exhibition has not been finalized.
Wrap up
This work of making the world’s largest Holy Quran in gold will be a landmark in the field of Islamic art and culture. Earlier, the Holy Quran was written only on cloth, paper, and animal skin. The addition of gold and aluminum to them will unveil a new dimension in the art based on the Holy Quran. Following the footsteps of Shahid Rassam, more dazzling art will be presented in the near future.
Source: United News of Bangladesh