how small we are...
It was a beautiful Sunday morning,and I was selfishly still laying on the bed when the phone rang.My mother was speaking full with emotion to someone on the other line and I woke up at once to find out what the commotion was all about…she simply said the chair was shaking and some people ran downstairs as they feared for their safety.All we could think about at the moment was it was a ‘mild’ earthquake. That was nine in the morning.
There was no news on television so we kept on thinking it was nothing big.By noon it was reported over 30 people were dead in Penang.And from there the number started to rise as if it was the stock market. And by evening it has gotten to thousands…thousands of lives lost ..by a single predator..and it wasn’t a bomb or the normally echoed ‘terror’ attack it was simply nature…it was Tsunami.
An earthquake,the fourth biggest one in the world…did not cause the collapse of buildings instead it was manifested in the form of 5 meters high tidal wave.Whose fault was it that thousands of lives were lost? When it appears it could have been prevented.Why wasn’t there security alerts on beaches, and residents along the shores? Even though I am not a meteorologist but at least it took three hours after the quake before tsunami reached our shores..but where was the alert? Probably its time to wake up and not take things for granted especially for a country that has always been free of earth quake, typhoon and other disasters…
Apart from being thankful to Allah S.W.T that I wasn’t at the beach that morning , all I could do for those perished is convey Al-Fatihah,may Allah bless their souls.Aameen..
And for those alive the least we could do is think why did all this happen?There are certainly reasons behind it lets not turn a blind eye.Most importantly it comes to show how vulnerable we humans are on this earth actually compared to whatever it is we have vainly lived upon.This earth and everything living in it belongs to Allah S.W.T,and will one day eventually return to The Creator Himself….
There was no news on television so we kept on thinking it was nothing big.By noon it was reported over 30 people were dead in Penang.And from there the number started to rise as if it was the stock market. And by evening it has gotten to thousands…thousands of lives lost ..by a single predator..and it wasn’t a bomb or the normally echoed ‘terror’ attack it was simply nature…it was Tsunami.
An earthquake,the fourth biggest one in the world…did not cause the collapse of buildings instead it was manifested in the form of 5 meters high tidal wave.Whose fault was it that thousands of lives were lost? When it appears it could have been prevented.Why wasn’t there security alerts on beaches, and residents along the shores? Even though I am not a meteorologist but at least it took three hours after the quake before tsunami reached our shores..but where was the alert? Probably its time to wake up and not take things for granted especially for a country that has always been free of earth quake, typhoon and other disasters…
Apart from being thankful to Allah S.W.T that I wasn’t at the beach that morning , all I could do for those perished is convey Al-Fatihah,may Allah bless their souls.Aameen..
And for those alive the least we could do is think why did all this happen?There are certainly reasons behind it lets not turn a blind eye.Most importantly it comes to show how vulnerable we humans are on this earth actually compared to whatever it is we have vainly lived upon.This earth and everything living in it belongs to Allah S.W.T,and will one day eventually return to The Creator Himself….
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