Shine on
I snatched some time from this unbelievably busy month to moon-gaze tonight from my uncurtained living room window so high up close to the sky and this is what I found:
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart…” Helen Keller
The moon was almost full. The clouds were busily rushing past – they had places to go and rain upon. And the moon shone on… only it appeared sometimes to be dull behind the rush of clouds sweeping by…but it still shone on.
I thought of the moon and the Prophet’s face of light (peace be upon him). I thought of the moon amidst the incredibly environmental and profoundly important messages in the Qur’an. I realized that the moon was a signifier of God’s immense mercy to us humans – a means by which to measure the time He granted each one of us to use in the pursuit of the good, of His pleasure.
The time He granted us to shine on – even when dulled by the rush.
And only He allows us to feel these beautiful things in the heart. That is a great mercy indeed.
Beautiful. I’m speechless!
Beautiful post. Made me cry!
you can only feel if the heart isn’t rusted. and that is also a mercy.
That’s an amazing quote from Helen Keller. I could never put it more eloquently, or truthfully. The eclipse was absolutely brilliant. I hadn’t actually ever seen one before a few days ago. And I stood outside for more than an hour in the numbing cold, trying to come to terms with the almost bizarre thing that was happening.
I began to think about the earth’s axis and how everything in the universe is so perfectly orchestrated. And I don’t think that I’ve considered the orbit of the moon and our planet since high school science class.
It’s every little while that something like this happens, to pull is back into perspective, to remind us of the beauty around us, and in turn, the beauty of Allah