Close to two months ago, I was on board a midnight flight to Melbourne. We were in the middle of the El Nino heatwave (i heard it was the hottest week yet on record, 38'C), there wasn't any clouds in the sky that made it a clear black night.
The person sitting next to me wasn't interested in light conversation or whatever & I had the window seat, so looked outside the window.
What I saw outside that night somehow had some emotional effect on me. I couldn't understand it back then, but I was moved to write this on my phone:
Day 1: on the plane
A while back ago i was standing outside of the house looking to the skies and noticing a couple of stars decking the night skies. I asked myself why can't i see the kind of skies that i always see in other pictures?
At 2 am about 75000feet from the ground, i looked out of the plane window and finally saw it. Well, a portion of it, anyway. But nevertheless, even in that limited scope of view (1x0.5 feet) it was truly mesmerizing to the extent that i am still fully awake because of i am so fully in awe of this creation. Everytime i look outside, it is breathtaking. It seems like i could see beyond galaxies, stars that had burn for millions of years. It feels like i am seeing beyond the present; a glimpse of the past & maybe the future.
The heavenly bodies, as they say it, is awesome (to put it in a very unsuitable word but I can't find a better one)
I now understand why Sheikh Hamza Yusuf said that people who do not believe in God should go out at night away from any artificial lighting and just look at the night skies. The spread of the stars in the skies is enough proof to state that it is just impossible to think that all of this doesn't have any Ultimate Creator.
I guess the best word so sum it all up (the word that I wasn't able to find to use back then) is "MasyaAllah"!
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