The Light Verse is: "God is the light of the heavens and the earth, the similitude of His light is like a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp is in a glass, the glass is as if it were a brilliant shimmering star kindled from a blessed tree, an olive (tree) neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil illuminates even if fire does not touch it; light upon light, God leads to His light whom He wills. And God gives parables to men (for their understanding). And God has knowledge of everything." (SAA)

The Veils Hadith is: "God has seventy veils of light and darkness. Were He to lift them, the majestic glories of His face would burn completely anyone whose eyesight perceived Him." (SRA)

Two quotes from the Koran.

What's interesting is that these are pretty much completely meaningless - even moreso after translation, no doubt - but my response to them is emotionally powerful, and for reasons I cannot ascertain. It is expression and communication taken to a level that is absent in all non-religious work - like the real meaning is understood by elements within the person not belonging to the conscious brain. Things that I used to consider primitive, superstitious, backward, tribal and nonsensical now seem to affect me in ways I barely understand.

I think that is the purpose of art. And to affect people "inexplicably", in ways they cannot understand, one needs to have a very high understanding and a real, immediate experience of the things they idealise and imagine and only hazily perceive this very yearning.