And then, when I went out to get something off the washing line (without hijab -cos it is usually unnecessary in our backyard) I spotted a neighbour stood over the fence! It was quiet spooky. It was about 10pm, dark and there he was a pale, white blob of a face and blond spikyish hair! Ofcourse the moment I spotted him I ran! Straight into the house where I collapsed laughing. Thus scaring some housemates into thinking I was losing my mind (again! when will they learn -
there is no mind....). Anyway, we thought mayb the neighbour would have gone back into his house, so I lifted the curtain off our backdoor just a bit and peeked out - and what did I see???I saw him trying to peek in!!!!
Well.... that was weird. I mean, if you lived here, u'd know why. You never see our neighbours. Its almost as if they never leave their house. So to have seen one, so late at night, outside, and one who obviously thought I was a curiosity (prob cos I was acting weird!) was weird, freakishly weird. So we ran upstairs to try and spy on him from an upstairs window -only to find out the angle was all wrong. Well..... damn. That was the end of that excitement. Oh.... and I think he drives a motorcycle... cos one has been parked outside that house for a couple of days now, titled "Bad Boys Toy" - lol :-)
And we did some star gazing through a telescope in our backyard as well tonight. We spied on Jupiter. As always, it is awe inspiring to see something so, so far away. Something existing independently of the Earth, the ground you depend upon, you walk upon every day. It exists solely for Allah - like everything else. But other than that, it really has no connection to you - its an ornament of the night sky. Beautiful. Distant. Pale.
Subhanallah. Looking through that telescope and seeing the stars, the planets always reminds me of my mortality, my humanity and it also humbles me - because I am insignificant. In the midst of all of it -I am nothing. A blip in the grand design. Yet to Allah, I matter. I exist, He created me - therefore to Him I matter. Its an amazing concept. Sometimes it seems so amazing - I can barely get my head around it.
Out of all the billions, and billions and billions of stars, our Sun is just one small star. And Earth one of the many planets orbiting that one star. How many planets are there out there? How many sustain life? How many have others who worship Allah and praise Him and Glorify Him???
"He covers the day with the night in swift pursuit, with the sun and the moon and the stars subservient to His command: oh, verily, His is all creation and all command. Hallowed is God, the Sustainer of all the worlds!" Quran 7:54
"And He has made the night and the day and the sun and the moon subservient [to His laws, so that they be of use] to you; and all the stars are subservient to His command: in this, behold, there are messages indeed for people who use their reason!!" Quran 16:12
It boggles the mind - or atleast it does mine.
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