Quran Reflections: The Verse of Light

The image has stayed with me for years: light within light, glass so clear it appears to be flame though no flame has touched it.

“The heart does not become a lamp by accident. It is polished, again and again, by what it chooses to face.”

Reflection, then, is not mood. It is maintenance — the daily work of removing whatever has dulled the glass: haste, resentment, the comfortable lie.

And the light does not belong to the lamp. That is perhaps the whole lesson.