ZAHIR in Arabic means visible,present,incapable of going unnoticed.It is someone or something which ,once we have come into contact with them or it gradually occupies our very thought until we can think of nothing else.This can be considered either a state of holiness or of madness....
In Buenos Aires,the Zahir is a common 20-centavo coin; the letters N and T and the number 2 bear the marks of a knife or a letter opener; 1929 is the date engrave on the reverse.In Gujarat,at the end of the 18t century,the Zahir was a tiger; in Java,it was blind man from the Surakarta Mosque who has stoned by the faithful;in Persia,an astrolabe that Nadir Shah ordered to be thrown into the sea;in the Mahdi's prisons,in around 1892 ,a small compass that had been touched by Rudolf Karl von Slatin... The ZAHIR was a fixation on everything that had been passed from generation to generation;It left no questions answered;it took up all the space;it never allowed us even to consider the possibility that things could change TENGRI-it's a sky worship.It's a kind of religion without religion
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If you're someone who experienced real love yet been hurt over and over again,this book is for you BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY
The book is autobiographical, but told from the third person. It deals with the exorcism of personal demons and discovering one's strength. It also deals with relationships among people, in this case, Paulo and his wife. Together with her, he embarks on a journey through the soaring heat of the Mojave desert. During the 40 days journey, surrounded by doubts and temptations and entering their innermost conflicts and questions, they met the valkyries, strange warrior women. The plot involved Paulo going to the Mojave Desert to meet "the Valkyries" themselves, a group of warrior women who travel the desert on motorcycles. At the beginning of the story, "J"(master), Coelho's master in RAM, shows him a copy of the poem by Wilde that says "we destroy what we love" and this theme is central to the story. (Source: Wikipedia) Aleph is the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time.
A SHORT STORY
“A powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which all the inhabitants drank. Whoever drank that water would go mad. “The following morning, the whole population drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not managed to poison. The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a series of edicts governing security and public health. The policemen and the inspectors, however, had also drunk the poisoned water, and they thought the king’s decisions were absurd and resolved to take no notice of them. “When the inhabitants of the kingdom heard these decrees, they became convinced that the king had gone mad and was now giving nonsensical orders. They marched on the castle and called for his abdication. “In despair the king prepared to step down from the throne, but the queen stopped him, saying: ‘Let us go and drink from the communal well. Then we will be the same as them.’ “And that was what they did: The king and the queen drank the water of madness and immediately began talking nonsense. Their subjects repented at once; now that the king was displaying such wisdom, why not allow him to continue ruling the country? “The country continued to live in peace, although its inhabitants behaved very differently from those of its neighbors. And the king was able to govern until the end of his days.” |