FROM THE BIRDS OF ABRAHAM TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF CIVILIZATION
FROM THE BIRDS OF ABRAHAM TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF CIVILIZATION: THE SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE OF REVELATION AND THE RESURRECTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS Introduction: Man's Journey of Existence from "Unremembered" to Addressee When man first appeared on the stage of existence, he was not yet a subject; he was a biological draft, a potential lost within nature. Surah Al-Insan vividly expresses this state: "Has there not been upon man a period of time when he was not a thing even mentioned?" (Insan 76:1) Nature, in this phase, is wild; boundless, undefined, and the "other." The civilization project of the Qur'an is the process of extracting this "unremembered" being from being an object of nature and transforming him into a subject of history, morality, and consciousness by making him the addressee of divine revelation. This process becomes visible through the question "How do You give life?" asked by our Prophet Abraham; it develops with the g...