Re: A Magnificent View and A Down-to-Earth Realization
Interesting that you should send out your realization and perspective
on our place in the universe with such an incredible picture.
I was speaking with my husband just the other night, and our conversation
was prompted by similar awesome forces of Allah SWT, albeit on a smaller
scale. We were watching the lightning crack across the sky, and listening
the the boom and rumble of the thunder while we talked. We made the
observation that although the lightning was so much more powerful than we
were, it was a slave to Allah SWT, just as we are and as everything is.
We were marveling, however, that thought there are so many things in the
universe that are awesome and gigantically powerful, it was a wonder that
only man, small little special animal that he is, is given the option of
choosing to worship God. What a crazy realization that Allah SWT hears
every crack of thunder and sees every flash of lightning, he knows the plan
for the arms of the spiral galaxy in your picture, and he even knows what
will happen with dark matter and the accelleration of the universe towards
infinity - yet only man, choosing to make salah and choosing to be a
conscious and willing slave, is given the choice - though of course Allah
SWT already knows what we will do - to consciously worship the Lord of the
Al Amin.
- Petin, 11 April 2001
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