Framed Calligraphic Panel - Allah, there is no God but He.

This splendid panel is a reproduction of an art piece by the Ottoman master calligrapher Mustafa Râkim (1809-1810) in jali-thuluth script. It reads: “God, there is no god but He, the Lord of His Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and the Lord of all that has been created.”  'God, there is no god but He' affirms Allah's Oneness; that which is One is essentially alone (wahid), indivisible (‘ahad) and sole (farid) and these qualities manifest as singleness, wholeness, and uniqueness. Mustafa Râkim was born in Unye on the Black Sea in 1758. When he was very young, his father, Mehmed Kaptan, took him to Istanbul to live with his brother, İsmail Zühdi Efendi, who was an established calligrapher. After Ismail was appointed as an instructor of calligraphy at the Imperial Palace, the young Râkim received his formal training there studying under his brother. Mustafa Râkim would become Ismail Zühidi's most celebrated pupil. Ismail Zühidi and Mustafa Râkim went on to develop their own style of calligraphy based