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Sadequain painted his calligraphy on hides, wood, burlap and on marble slabs, a practice that copied the earliest recorded scripture of the Quran which according to scholars, were written on pieces of hide, bone, stones and various scraps. Nevertheless, Sadequain told reporter Rehana Hakim that using calligraphy was not a religious gesture. It was his inheritance and a service to the art of calligraphy. He added that he was not a religious person but his calligraphy had a certain philosophy, not just words “but sentences which say things.”