Day 1: Ayat 1 | The Opening

To begin this Quran Journaling series, I simply dove in. I didn’t have a specific format for the pages and I can see that it will be refined as I progress. When writing the Ayat in Arabic, I wrote big and left room for the word-for-word translation…just not enough room to add the translation. That’s the first change I’ll make moving forward. I like the way the illustrations turned for the most part as they were simply motifs I could easily draw. I wanted to focus on the fact that the Quran is clear without crookedness. I drew a straight path to symbolize that meaning. What I would have wanted to include is more reflections and explanation of the first word of this ayat: Al-Humd, Praise. Which in this ayat means praise and thanks to Allah who granted a blessing upon all humankind by revealing the Book (the Quran). The praise and thanks also means that we are praising and thanking Allah as we greet him in this Ayat as in thanking Him for blessings we know and don’t know. I would have liked to add this reflection in the first page, but ended up adding it later in the series.