{"id":147,"date":"2025-12-16T07:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:54:15","slug":"%c2%a7-0-7-tairahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/2025\/12\/16\/%c2%a7-0-7-tairahu\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a7 0.7. Ta\u2019irahu"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the 17th sura of the Qur\u2019an, the Night Journey, we read of the voyage that Muhammad undertook \u201cfrom the sacred mosque to the farthest mosque,\u201d that is, from Mecca to heaven. Aerial Nekyia<\/em>(0.4<\/a>)1<\/a><\/sup>. During this trip to the higher spheres of the cosmos\u2014later portrayed by Dante in the Divine Comedy<\/em>\u2014the prophet had a powerful vision of Paradise and Hell. Regarding the underworld, Muhammad says that upon reaching its doors, the deceased\u2019s neck is hung with his \u201cacts\u201d or his \u201cfate\u201d, to which he will answer when, in the Day of Resurrection, he is presented an open book, the Record of Acts, where he can contemplate his sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Arabic word that was translated as \u201cfate\u201d is ta\u2019irahu.<\/em> Ta\u2019ir <\/em> means \u201cbird.\u201d According to Ibn Abbas, Muhammad\u2019s cousin and one of the first interpreters of the Qur\u2019an, ta\u2019irahu<\/em> refers to \u201cwhat flies away or leaves someone,\u201d his or her acts. For pre-Islamic Arabs, mostly nomads, the flight of birds was the main means of predicting the future; fate was inseparable from them. Then, with Islam, the bird becomes a symbol of the acts, the destiny forged by the individual to be judged. These winged acts are a bird that goes down with its owner to the underworld and accompany him as a representative of the conscious world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The descent into the underworld, like Muhammad\u2019s night journey, can be of immense benefit, in its wake come the birds of divination and from it may be derived a medical science or even a entire code of conduct and coexistence. The katabasis\/anabasis<\/em> is a truly overwhelming experience but, in the words of Virgil, if it is possible to return to where the \u201cstars glide through the silent sky,\u201d2<\/a><\/sup> from the center to the periphery of the labyrinth, the descent into the underworld is the most fruitful of learnings. Our problem as a culture is that we have stopped indefinitely at its threshold and have made an unlikely home of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Here, the mythological motif of night flight can be seen as the centrifugal polarity of the spiral (0.5<\/a>), a kind of anabasis that, rather than fleeing the labyrinth, elevates it to a higher, cosmic level.\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  2. Virgil, Aeineid, Book III, 515.<\/em> \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    En la azora 17 del Cor\u00e1n, el Viaje Nocturno, leemos sobre la traves\u00eda que Mahoma emprendi\u00f3 \u201cdesde la mezquita sagrada a la mezquita m\u00e1s lejana\u201d, es decir, de la Meca a los cielos. Nekyia a\u00e9rea (0.4). Durante este viaje a las esferas superiores del cosmos \u2014posteriormente representado por Dante en su Divina Comedia\u2014, el profeta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274836558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"[{\"id\":\"99564494-4582-472b-a5bf-3af7b15cbded\",\"content\":\"Aqu\\u00ed el mitologema del vuelo nocturno puede ser visto como la polaridad centr\\u00edfuga de la espiral (0.5<\\\/a>), una suerte de an\\u00e1basis que m\\u00e1s que huir del laberinto, lo eleva a un nivel superior, el c\\u00f3smico.\"},{\"id\":\"cc9e7ce7-5031-498a-9980-e617ae073b7c\",\"content\":\"Virgilio, Eneida, Libro III, 515.<\\\/em>\"}]","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[432627],"tags":[786108939,4938532,786108952,8416454,786108941,24611566,672871,786108951,1682040],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preambulo","tag-anabasis-2","tag-anabasis","tag-birds","tag-catabasis","tag-katabasis","tag-nekya","tag-pajaros","tag-threshold","tag-umbral"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYHfz-2n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274836558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}