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This unique work of art, a fusion of calligraphy and marbling art, is entirely the artist’s own creation. The symmetrical calligraphy in the artwork that reads as ‘Wallāhu Mutimmu Nụrihī’ in Arabic is a verse from the Holy Qur’an (Surah As-Saf 61:8). It translates as ‘Allah will certainly perfect His light’. The technique used here produces a reverse or mirror image. This writing style is known as müsennâ (specular), and it can also be described as a bifold (müsennâ), duplicate writing (çift yazı), or as ‘reflecting itself’ (mütenâzır). However, this technique has not been applied to the entire text. The name Allah is written only once, but the rest of the verse is written in müsenna style to refer to Allah’s light in both this world and the afterlife. In addition, the calligraphic text was created using the akkase ebru technique, one of many unique ebru styles. This technique is achieved by masking a pre-designed and perfectly cut pattern, miniature, or writing, which is then pasted on the paper surface and marbled in the desired colours.

This artwork was made with a muraqqa technique.

Muraqqa (Murakka) is an example of beautiful writing written on a paper glued on top of each other like cardboard. In the art of marbling, it is a form of sandy marbling with a thin sill drawn on the edges of the flowered marblings and arranged with a matching coloured battal on the outside. Tahrir is drawn in optional colours -usually gold or silver- around the sills.

The art of marbling is the art of paper decoration, which is formed by sprinkling water-insoluble paints on the thick water, with the help of brushes made of rose branch and horsehair, by adding bovine bile, on the surface and putting them on paper.