Indeed, it is You who is Knower
of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will say, «O Jesus, Son
of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit and you spoke to the
people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and
wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form
of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the
dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children
of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, «This is not but obvious magic.»
The 2000 Holocaust Memorial for the Judenplatz in Vienna is a sealed «temple» to lost knowledge and
wisdom in the form
of an inverted concrete library, the books» spines positioned inwards so that the thick corrugations
of their leaves confront you first, evoking all the long - lost fingers
of long -
dead people who touched, leafed through and read them.