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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