The revelation and the proof and its opposite, authored by: Muhammad Ali Shams al-Din

The Arabs had nothing that distinguished them throughout their long history except poetry and the Quran. At first glance, they were the most different, before Muslim Sufis turned their attention to the symbols and hidden shadows in the Quran, in those miraculous openings of some surahs like (Qaf), (Al M), (Al R), (T Sin), and others, which are musical scales of the unseen. And to the fertile Quranic stories in symbols and dimensions to create from them the material of their symbolic poetry and enigmatic flights. And this was a point of meeting or intersection that had to happen from the beginning. For poetry is a wound from the oldest wounds of the unseen. And we cannot dare to determine its age as astronomers did for the earth, planets, and galaxies, but we can observe from the poetry of some primitive tribes that still are so today, in the Amazon forests, some African forests, and other places like the (Maori) tribe in New Zealand, that their songs—oral sung poetry accompanied by rituals of dance and magic—are even their speech, signed, composed, and imaginative to the extent that we only share with poetry.