I don’t really believe in miracles and I think that people claiming to see apparitions of the Virgin or some dude finding ‘Allah’ written inside a tomato are but pranksters looking for their 15 minutes of fame.
However I do think that there’s a God out there - and he’s there for us, giving that occasional push, some sort of a divine wink if you wish, in moments like the one told in this quote taken from this book I’m currently reading - “Shake hands with the Devil” by Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire (who’s neither a Muslim nor a religious zealot of any kind - he was actually the leader of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) in 1994), talking about a fellow officer from Senegal, Major Diagne:
“One evening as he sat at his desk transcribing, he felt the sudden need of prayer and slid off his chair to his knees on his prayer carpet, his head towards Mecca, as required by his Islamic faith. At that exact moment, a huge piece of shrapnel smashed through his window from a mortar explosion, flying through the space he had just vacated, bouncing off the wall and landing still red-hot near his feet. He came within a hair’s breadth of certain death. Always dignified and composed, Diagne reported the damage to his window and then returned to his desk to complete his tedious but essential transcribing.”
Happy Eid El Adha / Bairam / Bajram to all!! :-D
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