We had a lovely time for the first day of the weekend. The splendid and smooth ride up Gunung Macincang by cable car, the wonderfully curved and magnificent suspended walkway high up among the cliffs. A feat to behold! A testimony of man’s creativity and engineering skills. A gift from the Almighty.But all these man-made creations…None beats the doings of the Greatest Creator of all…
From up there, we savoured the breathtaking scenery…The folds of ‘slashed-out’ like highlands, (His creation dating back 500 million years ago)..rich bluish green with the untouched forests beyond. The deep blue of the Andaman sea adjoining a far-out island belonging to our next door neighbour, Thailand. A lone yatch sailing in the cobalt waters, standing out like a speck of white dot…Looking down from atop the mountains, I was mesmerized and remembered what Allah has said in the Quran, (Qaaf, verses 6 until 11):
“Have they not looked at the sky above then and marked, how We have made it, adorned it, and that there are no flaws in it? And the earth! We have spread it out and set upon it mountains and caused to grow in it every kind of beautiful vegetation. All these things are eye-openers and a reminder for every servant returning to Allah.”
And also in Al Baqarah, verse 164:
“Surely, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, in the alternation of the night and the day, in the sailing of the ships through the ocean for the profit of mankind, in the rain which Allah sends down form the skies, with which He revives the earth after its death and spreads in it all kinds of animals, in the change of the winds and the clouds between the sky and the earth that are made subservient, there are signs for rational people.”
And then, my heart simply had to utter praises for Him.
“..there are signs for men of understanding. Those who remember Allah, while standing, sitting, and lying on their sides, and meditate on the creation of the heavens and the earth, then say: “Our Rabb! You have not created this in vain. Glory to You! Save us from the punishment of Fire.” ~ Ali Imran: verses 190-191~
“Surely, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, in the alternation of the night and the day, in the sailing of the ships through the ocean for the profit of mankind, in the rain which Allah sends down form the skies, with which He revives the earth after its death and spreads in it all kinds of animals, in the change of the winds and the clouds between the sky and the earth that are made subservient, there are signs for rational people.”
And then, my heart simply had to utter praises for Him.
“..there are signs for men of understanding. Those who remember Allah, while standing, sitting, and lying on their sides, and meditate on the creation of the heavens and the earth, then say: “Our Rabb! You have not created this in vain. Glory to You! Save us from the punishment of Fire.” ~ Ali Imran: verses 190-191~
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