{"id":1013,"date":"2022-06-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2022-06-03T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:51:43","slug":"dust-to-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/2022\/06\/03\/dust-to-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Dust to Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_1013 social_share_privacy clearfix 1.6.4 locale-de_DE sprite-de_DE\"><\/div><div class=\"twoclick-js\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\njQuery(document).ready(function($){if($('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_1013')){$('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_1013').socialSharePrivacy({\"txt_help\":\"Wenn Sie diese Felder durch einen Klick aktivieren, werden Informationen an Facebook, Twitter, Flattr, Xing, t3n, LinkedIn, Pinterest oder Google eventuell ins Ausland \\u00fcbertragen und unter Umst\\u00e4nden auch dort gespeichert. N\\u00e4heres erfahren Sie durch einen Klick auf das <em>i<\\\/em>.\",\"settings_perma\":\"Dauerhaft aktivieren und Daten\\u00fcber-tragung zustimmen:\",\"info_link\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.heise.de\\\/ct\\\/artikel\\\/2-Klicks-fuer-mehr-Datenschutz-1333879.html\",\"uri\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\\\/zekkblog\\\/2022\\\/06\\\/03\\\/dust-to-dust\\\/\",\"post_id\":1013,\"post_title_referrer_track\":\"Dust+to+Dust\",\"display_infobox\":\"on\"});}});\n\/* ]]> *\/<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Some stories about our lives we live to tell. But many we do not, for these may only be told after we are no longer alive to tell them.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walking through a cemetery provides ample opportunity to reflect on how the dead speak, or are spoken for, by the graves that contain them. For some, nothing less than a mini mausoleum will do. What shape this takes will depend on one\u2019s faith, tastes and graveyard by-laws (death might liberate us from suffering and mortality but the coils of administrative rules endure into the great abyss!). I must admit I usually walk quickly past these graves. The elaborate carvings of angels, the miniature domes and elaborate calligraphic laments appear to me to be an unceasing howl from the big beyond. Do the dead get bored seeing the same engraving over themselves until they are resurrected out of their graves? I am always drawn to the graves that narrate in silence the lives extinguished beneath them. Muslims will often leave instructions that their graves are to be a mound of earth and dust with nothing solid to record their existence.&nbsp;What I hear when I see these graves are the words of the Qur\u02be\u0101n: \u201cAll that is upon it perishes: and there remains only the face of your Lord of majesty and honor\u201d (Q. Al-Ra\u1e25m\u0101n 55:27).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a recent walk through a Muslim cemetery, I was struck by the irony and profundity of a marbled tombstone etched with words from the Suf\u012b poet B\u0101b\u0101 Far\u012bd, reflecting on our most enduring memorial:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBehold Far\u012bd, blowing dust<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dust piling upon more dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laughing dust, weepy dust<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dust ending into dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Say not, servant, \u201cme\u201d and \u201cmine\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For it is not yours, nor mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our world is a four day bustle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then a pile of dust.&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/files\/2022\/06\/desert-g14feb2729_1920-1024x551.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/files\/2022\/06\/desert-g14feb2729_1920-1024x551.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/files\/2022\/06\/desert-g14feb2729_1920-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/files\/2022\/06\/desert-g14feb2729_1920-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/files\/2022\/06\/desert-g14feb2729_1920-1536x827.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/files\/2022\/06\/desert-g14feb2729_1920-500x269.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/files\/2022\/06\/desert-g14feb2729_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blue-color has-text-color\">Abdul Rahman Mustafa ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Paderborner Institut f\u00fcr Islamische Theologie an der Universit\u00e4t Paderborn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#dust #graves #cemetry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some stories about our lives we live to tell. But many we do not, for these may only be told after we are no longer alive to tell them.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Walking through a cemetery provides ample opportunity to reflect on how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/2022\/06\/03\/dust-to-dust\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}