Einhara

I should begin with a disclaimer: I am no religious authority.

I am not a scholar, nor do I pretend to have answers to questions that people far more learned than me have spent lifetimes studying.

I just really love this world.

I love that whales speak to one another across oceans. That fruit grows sweet on trees. That somewhere inside the human body is a consciousness we still cannot fully explain. That something as small as a mosquito can bring something as large as a human being to his knees. I love looking at the sky, at animals, at our own bodies, at the strange laws holding everything together, and wondering why any of it is the way it is.

And, inevitably, I find myself thinking about Allah.

That is what Einhara is.

This issue is an exercise in looking closely. At the enormous and the microscopic. At what science has managed to uncover and what remains stubbornly beyond us. At the things the Qur’an asks us to notice, and the things we walk past every day without a second thought.

Nothing here is intended to replace scholarship. Where I turn to the Qur’an, hadith, tafsir or the work of scholars, I do so as a student and a reader. Where I wander into science, philosophy or speculation, I hope the distinction is clear.

I am simply following my curiosity.

And perhaps that is why so many of these stories seem to arrive at the same place.

The closer you look at this world, the stranger it becomes. The more you learn, the more there is that you do not know. And for all that human beings have measured, mapped, named and mastered, we remain very small creatures standing inside something extraordinarily vast.

So Einhara does not ask you to come here for answers.

Come and look with me.