
Translator: Davood Salehan
Source: rasekhoon.net
Source: rasekhoon.net
An investigation of the use of geometric forms in Islamic architecture prior to the creation of Jewish state has led the historians, artists and archaeologists to insist that the Israeli Star of David is a false myth and is essentially and genuinely a form of Arabic use that has been stolen by the Jews. All the historical facts indicate that the Israeli is a government without principles and without history and is an evil plant which has been planted by colonialism in the heart of the Islamic nations. Moreover, the regime has no fear of the reversal of the facts and the creation of myths and superstitions about its own origins and history. In the same course of action, they try to associate the civilization and culture of other nations with Israel and even they have claimed that the ancient Egyptian civilization has had a Jewish origin and they were the ones who have founded the pyramids.
In this context, they have chosen the honor of one of the elements of the Islamic art which is based on geometric shapes as one of its own symbols and the more important problem is that we have drawn back from our symbols and our sensitivity and concern over the use of our symbols is that, one day, we should abandon our history for the proof and reason that the Jews are making fictions and myths about them.
With respect to the star-like hexagon which the Israelis have adopted as their own symbol and call it the Star of David, Dr. Mohammad Abu-Ghadir, the professor and director of the Arabic language department of the Al-Azhar Faculty of Humanities focuses on the original and Arabic root of this hexagon star. Moreover, the Bossinis who were Canaanite Arabs, founded the city of Jerusalem, formed a government, and later used this star shape as a symbol and their slogan.
He adds that after the departure of the Jews from Egypt, they went to the land of Canaan, but did not enter the land and as a series of tribes resided around it and with the Canaanites they began to perform deceptions and slander in the way of trade and kinship until they managed to get their hands on Canaan and this symbol and sign. Since then, this star was turned into a legend in the Jewish thought and was associated with the Solomon’s ring and was spread in all the Jewish communities around the world. Furthermore, it was used in different arts and crafts. In the Jewish thought, this references and illusion was created that this star and hexagon is a part of the Jewish history and legend as Israel is a government which lives by the legends and does all that it can to form a connection between the people and a combination of legends and myths. Dr. Salah Behensi, an Islamic archeology professor at the University of Cairo and Yemen says: a star or a pentagram, or a six or eight-sided shape is one of the shapes which is used by an artist in order to avoid depicting the living creatures and plants. Therefore, we use these kinds of geometric shapes a lot in the architecture of the mosques and the design of the Islamic buildings and we observe that the Zionist regime is a newly established government and has no history and civilization or any art or knowledge that could represent it.
He also adds that the Islamic art has certain characteristics, including an interest empty spaces and trying to fill in the blanks in a form of art with painting, and a star is one way of filling these empty spaces allows the artist to do such a thing. Of course, in this field other forms are also used and this depends of the taste of the artist and a hexagon (a star) has nothing to do with a peculiar political condition.
Dr. Anwar Ebrahim, the head of the office for the agreements and the cultural programs of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture says in this regard:
A six-sided star is just like any other geometrical form which has been used by the Muslim artists and, since the old times, like Persian culture, there was a bright star in the clear sky and this image was transferred to our artists in different forms and in different countries, and particularly in the west of it was used. He says: in their minds, people associate geometric shapes there is some association with political affairs and people show sensitivity against some symbols very quickly, such as the stars that have become the secret Jewish or the Masonic pyramid that has been a symbol of mysticism, but this does not mean that we should exclude the pyramid, as Masons have used and the fact that in some ancient Pharaonic tablets we see things like swastikas has nothing whatsoever to do with the perceptions of the West from the concept of swastika.
Doctor Ahmad Al-Zayyat, a professor of Islamic archeology in the faculty of Tantami Literature says in this regard: a Muslim artist makes use of various geometric shapes in either of two intersecting triangles or stars as arch-shaped hexagonal or five angles and it was used as such in the era of the Fatimies. This is part of what has been well-known as the star plate paintings and they are circular shapes in which there are beads like almond and inside them there are also shapes similar to many-sided stars and, in terms of size and angles, the number of the angles can vary from five to nine and thus these are of the kinds of engineering and Islamic designs which are remained in the artifacts and architecture such as the wooden work called Seyyedeh Roqieh which is kept in the Islamic Museum in Cairo there.
Even today, many architectural projects that we use have stars in the principle of two intersecting squares that form an octagonal star or two intersecting triangles that form a six-pointed star created. If they grow smaller, they find the shape of the fish scales and this has been used for years in the Islamic artwork and we do not fear because the Israeli flag has used such a symbol.
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