Water

Over the school holidays I spend a lot of time around water - waterfall, stream, river and sea. Watching water falling from high altitude into hard rock fascinates me. Water is very soft. Nothing compared to the hard rock. But yet it manage to cut holes into the rock. Slowly but yet, steadily. Stream and river carve jagged lined into the surface of earth.

A lot of people are like the water. They are soft, not at all out spoken, lingering at the back of the stage of life but yet make an impact of their own. My mother is one of them. She will never shine in any function. She is just ordinary. Never brag about her kids. But all her kids are successful in their special own way. No need to make comparison. There's no point to do that. In a lot of ways I'm like her. Always being an underdog but always manage to get myself afloat and survive. Survive well at times. Alhamdulillah, praise be to Allah.

In the middle of the vast South China Sea while following my husband to one of his fishing trips, I keep on thinking about a verse in Al Qur'an. Allah says that if we use all the drops of water in all the seas of the earth as ink to write down Allah's knowledge, we will not be able to do so even if we have double the amount of ink.

"And among His signs, He shown you the lightning, by way both of fear and as hope, and He send down rain from the sky and with it gives life to the earth after it is dead. Verily in that are signs for those who are wise," chapter Ar Rum verse 24.

Watching National Geographic, it shows how a dry out lake, when scanned with infra red light, will show signs of eel, fish, etc. embedded under the dry earth and waiting for the rain to come to spring up back to life. The dead river will come back to life after a splash of rain. Al Qur'an told all about this 1400 years ago.

There's a whole lot more for science to discover the truth in Al Qur'an. Only the wise will get it.

May Allah bless us all. Amin.