Letters of the Arabic alphabet manifest from larger cosmological occurrences. According to the Islamic tradition, the qalam (pen) was the first of creation, which went on to record, in a preemptive archive, everything that would exist in the world. All inking begins with a nuqtā, a calligraphic point from which letters are extruded, stretched, swept, bent and folded. The nuqtā is the unit of text that translates the width of the qalam to the length of the stroke, which sufi mystics believe contains all creation and wisdom. Sufis also believe that strokes of Arabic letters relate to proportions, positions and biological processes of the human body, such as breath. 

These vocabularies and orthographies are philosophical translations and graphic manifestations of universal truths. The fractal deconstruction of words into letters and letters into strokes is a spatial practice that Sufis used to decipher cosmic mysteries as embodied knowledges.