WHEN IT RAINS

My garden As I see it

Assalamualikum
Hello

And how are you this morning ? You know my best mornings is when it just rained. Why ? Well the coolness somehow gets to me. It makes me feel calmer it somehow makes me smile and what more being surrounded by plants, trees and flowers ..they somehow make me feel ..they somehow seem to say alhamdulilah or thank god !I "look around and all I could feel is freshness, freshness in the air, the air seem more crisp, more clean ..take a good deep breath ....it just makes me feel alive ..and thank god  I am here this morning...again ... able to breathe, able to walk, able to see..smell ... all that is god given... if not god's gift!

You know before I step out into my garden every morning I would watch in amazement from my long windows as the light slowly penetrate my mousoullah. My garden outside will suddenly be transformed within minutes as the light begin to flood ....there is brightness everywhere..it seemed  as though there was no darkness before this ...how amazing I thought..how great ! Mashaalah !
Some would say it's normal it's nature but to me nature in itself is not a divine entity but a symbolic form which manifests the divine. The divine here is of course Allah .

However as Syed Muhammad Naquib puts it contemporary science has evovled and developed out of a philosophy that everything existent is a progression, a development or evolution of what lies in latency in eternal matter. The world is seen from this perspective is an independent, external universe, a self subsistent system evolving according to it's own laws. The denial of reality and the existence of GOD is already implied in it's philosophy. It's methods are chiefly philosophic rationalism, which tends to depend on reason alone and denies authority and intuition and rejects Revelation and religion as sources of true knowledge. The world in other words is described in plain naturalistic and rational terms divested of spiritual significance interpretation, reducing it's origin and reality solely to mere natural forces.

Hmm...how can that be I thought deeply!!??  I mean it's origin and reality is reduced to mere natural forces!!  I began to look at my garden again trying to rationalize. Take a simple example..when I look at my garden which is filled with roses and heleconias hybrid or otherwise a question pops to my mind. I thought to myself researchers and  scientist in this field might feel ultimately proud to have come out with a new hybrid say a rose or heleconias  which I have a few species myself in my garden but my question is without the original plant can any scientist in this world create a specie call the ROSE or the HELECONIA ?  Talking about being able to create a hybrid is normal to me but to create some thing from nothing that is special and that is what I am referring to....
Being able to create something from nothing is the work of the CREATOR ! In this event it is no other than God almighty...

So that is why I love to go out early in the morning to my garden and see the change that has taken place to every flower every new growth and thank Allah ... with his grace I could enjoy this little garden of mine with all it's profusion of colours. Alhamdulilah everytime I open the window I will give Salam to the plants and without fail will murmur mashaalah ..what  beautiful flowers YOU have given me this morning...thank you Allah. And mind you  this only the tip of the iceberg...out there I am sure there are hundreds and thousands more species that I have not seen and if this is a garden on earth what I wonder it is like in heaven ! 

Mashaalah

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