CONCEPT & PHILOSOPHY Between Two Rivers
seeks to introduce to Muslim Hiphoppas and Humanity another platform in making fashion statement by injecting fresh concept and spirit that guides the Art of Islamic Calligraphy and Islamic Art where the emphasis is on perfect marriage between MESSAGE and BEAUTY in arriving at a Dynamic, Harmonious and Lively artistic UNITY.Moreover, the first batch of designs by B2R seeks to address the Monotheistic Universal identity of Islam as taught by the Prophets (pbut) and the meaning of modesty as regard to the personality of Muslim women.The subsiquent batch of designs would tend to focus on other issues relevant to our evolution as Muslims and members of Human Family, Inshaa Allah!!!
GRATITUDE
First and foremost, our thanks and praises go to Allah (SWT) for this wonderful opportunity [though the task is so phisically, mentaly and psychologically challenging] to represent Muslim Ummah and Humanity in the tradition of our noble predicessors at this very crucial time of our History - the history of the world hearding towards abysmal self-distruction. Words can not not express how grateful we are for this opportunity. Nonetheless, Humans as we are, full of shortcomings, we pray for forgiveness of our faults and errors. All Praise is due to Allah (God, Elohim) (SWT), The Master of the Universe!!!
"True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete." "I can state in all sincerity that I wish nothing but freedom, justice and equality, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people....
It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood.
El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X)
I'd like to meet:
AFFILIANTION
AL-QUDDUS ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY
Music:
We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It's time to be like them, as strong as them."
Tupac Shakur "Food and liquor stores rest on every corner
The well is running dry, the days of Malcolm and Martin have ended
Our hope has descended and off to the side
Waiting for the reinstallment of the revolution
Because we are dying at the cost of our own pollution LUPE FIASCO Food and LiquorHaving firmly believed that the elements of 'Hip hop' culture when prepared and packaged responsibly and effectively serve as the most dynamic universal platform through which many could creat, develop and shape their political, social and cultural agenda, orientation and awareness; B2R is grateful to join hands with Muslim artists and ordinary individual Muslims to help propagate the Islamic message of Love of Life, Brotherhood of Humanity, Dialoguing Among Civilizations and Stiffer Resistance against Injustice, Oppression, Occupation, Aggression and any form of brutality against Humanity.
Books:
The Final Writ, The Glorious Al-Qur'an Al- Kareem.
