The exhibition of traditional Islamic calligraphy by amateur young and noted artists concluded on Monday at Lok Virsa, the National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage |
The exhibition was the outcome of a calligraphic competition featuring the works of budding artists and providing them a chance to display their skills with the masterpieces of noted calligraphists.
Executive Director Lok Virsa Khalid Javaid said that in order to ensure nation-wide participation and to provide equal opportunity to all amateur young artists, Lok Virsa announced an open invitation from the interested young amateur artists to contest and participate in a competition-cum-exhibition at Lok Virsa.
Pakistan has a deep and historic background of beautiful calligraphic traditions, which needs to be projected.
He said this interaction among the renowned and upcoming calligraphists will continue in future, which would ultimately result in further promotion of this particular art.
The contestants included students from various art councils, universities and colleges.
"This has been done with a view to encourage the upcoming artists so that they should not only feel pride in practicing their art but also create new innovations in it by learning from their seniors", he added.
The eminent calligraphists whose masterpieces were on display in the exhibition included Rasheed Butt, Aftab Ahmad Khan, Elahi Buksh Matee, Imran Tahir, Muhammad Azeem Iqbal, Khawaja Muhammad Hussain, Abdul Rehman Tabani and Aftab Ahmad Changezi.
The amateur artists whose presented their works included Rehmat Ali, Rabia Sagheer, Arfah Fiaz, Sehrish Salam, Fatima Abbas, Afia Kanwal, Amna Irshad, Faiza Faiz, Muhammad Ali Imran, Mehmood Ali, Sidra Qaiser, Rafia Ahmad Usmani, Syeda Malika Haider, Asma Binte Ijaz, Rabia Khursheed, Rameesa Afazal, Azhar Farid, Saba Erum, Bushra Nasir, Qurat-ul-Ain Azam, Dr. Fauzia Rajput, Syeda Ayesha Azhar, Irsa Ambreen, Noor Fatima and Amna Nawaz.
The layout and design of the exhibition on traditional calligraphy was carried out by the eminent designer Asif Javaid Shahjahan, who is Director of the Heritage Museum at Lok Virsa.
Calligraphy has a very special place in Islam because it is strongly bound up with the Quranic revelation in two ways.
Firstly, Allah's word in the form of the Quran represents unique evidence of the divine revelation, which was actually conveyed orally to Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), but was then recorded in writing by his companions and circulated.
Secondly, this revelation is described in the Quran as an "elegantly proportioned script" which is preserved with ALLAH on "spotless sheets of paper" and which is beautiful and unsurpassable.
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Asadullah Syed
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